Virtually everyone loves a warm chocolate chip cookie. But hauling out the electric mixer, cleaning messy bowls and dealing with baking sheet after baking sheet of cookies? That’s a lot of fussing.

Hence this miracle — a chocolate chip cookie mixed in a mug and cooked in the microwave.

Five-minute chocolate chip mug cookie

ingredients

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon white sugar

1 tablespoon packed brown sugar

Pinch salt

1 egg yolk

¼ teaspoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 to 2 tablespoons chocolate chips

Vanilla ice cream (optional, but almost essential)

Directions

Melt the butter in your mug in the microwave for 30 seconds.

Have your sous chef add the sugars and salt and stir with a fork.

Add the egg yolk and vanilla and stir again.

Stir in the flour.

Stir in the chocolate chips.

Microwave the mug for 40 seconds. Your cookie should appear almost wet and sheeny. You’ll think it’s not done, but it is!

Add a scoop of ice cream and serve immediately.

 Source: This recipe was adapted from Mike Adamick’s Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes.