Defeating Candy-Deficiency

You're at home on a nice Sunday afternoon, doing whatever you usually do - when suddenly a huge craving for candy hits you. There are three most likely ways this scenario could play out: If you're a very self-disciplined person you can ignore this hunger for chocolate and the likes, you don't have to read on anymore (maybe you should memorize them nevertheless, just for emergency cases ;) ).
More likely you'll want to satisfy your desire for sugary goods and look for something in your kitchen, where you'll
a) find something and everything is going to be alright, or
b) won't be able to discover anything and all the shops are closed (because it's either Sunday or too late)! Oh no, panic mode on, what are you supposed to do now?!


For those merciless moments I've put together a list of makeshift-sweets for which you only need ingredients you most likely have at home.




1) The Mug Cake

For the basic recipe mix together:
5 tablespoons flour (or substitute 2 with cocoa)
3 tablespoons sugar (or honey  )
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1 egg
a little bit of baking soda


To avoid lumps in your batter start with mixing together all the dry ingredients in your mug of choice, then add the milk and in the end the egg and the oil. If you wish to, you can add extra ingredients like raisins, cinnamon, chopped nuts, little apple-pieces, coconut flakes, basically whatever you think will taste best.
Stir thoroughly once more, put it into your microwave at about 900W and wait for 2-3 minutes (the cake should rise over the top of the mug for some time) - and it's all done! Now you can enjoy your home(microwave)baked goodies.




2) Fruit with sweet dips

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If an apple, orange, banana or whatever fruit you have at hand isn't already sweet enough for you, theres a possibility to turn them into delicious desserts.
Just dip them into different kinds of sweet bread spreads like chocolate cream, honey or jam. For the extra crunch cover the dipped fruit in some chopped nuts, cereal, pumpkin seeds, coconut chips, et cetera.
Another alternative would be to fry them in a mix of butter, honey and cinnamon.




3) Sometimes eating a spoon full of chocolate cream can be so overwhelmingly sweet that you'll have enough of it for the rest of the day, ever tried that out?




4) Cereal-Cookies

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For a baking tray full of cookies mix:
300g of your favorite cereal or muesli
150g sugar
2 eggs
then make small heaps of them with a spoon and let them bake for about 15 minutes at 180°C.




5) Yogurt
Mix some natural yogurt with oatmeal or muesli, sliced fruit and honey - enjoy!




6)Toast

Toast with either chocolate cream or honey topped with - again - fruit, coconut chips, chopped nuts and the likes tastes delicious!




7) If all else fails or you don't have any of the ingredients above... well, you could always just let a sugar cube melt in your mouth, though I wouldn't recommend that.




I hope I have saved some of you from a disastrous case of candy-deprivation.
If you have any further tips or recipes, I'd be happy if you post them in the comments :)