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Hands up who fancies all of the flavours of a delicious, sticky cinnamon bun, in a weight loss-friendly mug cake… This brand-new Slimming World mug cake recipe fits perfectly into the Food Optimising plan, so you can hit that sweet spot without any worries about the calories in a cinnamon bun. Plus, it takes just two minutes in the microwave, for a quick and easy, energy-saving cake fix! 

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Slimming World cinnamon bun mug cake recipe

serves 1
8 1/2 Syns per cake
ready in 15 mins
vegetarian

What you need:

For the cake:

25g self-raising flour
½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 medium egg, separated
25g fat-free natural Greek yogurt
½ level tbsp sweetener granules
30g raisins (save a few to decorate)
¼ tsp vanilla extract

For the topping:

40g fat-free natural Greek yogurt
1 level tsp sweetener granules
pinch of cinnamon and remaining raisins, to decorate

What you do:

1. Mix the flour, cinnamon and raisins in a small bowl.

2. Using an electric hand whisk, beat the egg white in a clean glass bowl until it forms stiff peaks, then set aside.

3. Put the yogurt, sweetener, vanilla extract and egg yolk in a mixing bowl and mix until well combined. Stir in the flour mixture, then carefully fold in the egg white using a metal spoon.

4. Scrape the mixture into a microwave-safe mug (one that’s around 250ml is ideal – try to avoid anything wide and shallow) and cook on High in a 900W microwave for 2 minutes. Leave to cool in the mug until just warm – it will sink a little as it cools.

5. For the topping, mix the yogurt and sweetener together, then spoon it over the just-warm cake. Top with a sprinkling of cinnamon and a few raisins.

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White forest hot chocolate
Get your bake on with Slimming World cakes
Raspberry and coconut sponge – with Slimming World custard

Life is sweet with Slimming World

Selection of Slimming World puddings

If you’re a Slimming World group or Slimming World Online member, you’ll have more than 2,000 recipes on the website and app to choose from – including more than 300 desserts, cakes and puddings – plus plenty more ideas in your group or in our online Community. The next time your sweet tooth needs satisfying, you could try one of these tasty treats…

apple tart
strawberry souffles
Baileys chocolate cheesecake
toffee apple brulees
double chocolate and berry pavlova

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