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Spilled Milk

Episode 437: Mug Cakes

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:07.6

delicious eat it all and see if we know anything about mug cakes yes this episode is about mug cakes. Yes, this episode is about mug cakes, which is a term I'd never heard.

0:17.8

And this was my idea and yet I don't know if I have anything to contribute.

0:23.4

And you should have seen me yesterday trying to do some, you know, internet research into mug

0:28.7

cakes.

0:30.1

So if you enter the term mug cake into Google it just brings up a bunch of recipes.

0:35.0

There's not like a Wikipedia entry for these things.

0:38.0

No, I think when I was lost.

0:40.0

When I searched Wikipedia it just took me to cupcakes.

0:42.0

Yeah, I tried other search terms too, like microwave cakes.

0:47.8

That still just took me to mug cakes.

0:50.4

Yeah.

0:51.4

So we are really, I mean, I to tell you without Wikipedia we are lost here on

0:56.1

spilled milk. I mean it does raise an interesting philosophical question though which is

1:00.1

is a mug a type of cup and the answer is definitely yes there's no ambiguity there whatsoever

1:06.6

that's correct okay but I do think that when we talk about cupcakes in general we all

1:11.8

picture something that goes in a

1:14.8

traditional type of oven whether you know conventional or convection it goes in an

1:20.5

oven oven yeah yeah a mug cake goes in an oven oven. Yeah, yeah. A mug cake goes in a microwave oven.

1:25.4

Yes.

1:26.2

And so the reason I want to do this episode

1:28.1

is because like a week or two ago, teenager of the show,

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