Episode 437: Mug Cakes
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K 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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