Snack Time ~ Raspberry Style

Here is an easy low cost individual snack: Chocolate Raspberry Cake with Raspberry Milk.

First the cake, I used the individual 3-2-1 cake recipe.  What you don't know about that?  Okay, it is really easy to make individual sized cakes.  Mix one box of Angel Food Cake with one box of any other cake flavor mix into a air tight container.  I chose chocolate but you can pick any other, yellow, lemon, etc. Maybe next time I will get a devil's food cake to mix and let them battle it out. :D

The only trick to this is that one box needs to be Angel Food.  When the two mixes are good and blended, put 3 Tbsp mix with 2 Tbsp water into a mug and mix, then microwave for 1 minute.  EASY!  I have found the wider cappuccino mugs make a more stable cake then a coffee mug which makes a taller cake which just topples over.

To kick this snack up a notch, I combined some raspberry juice with 2 Tbsp sugar and reduced.  NOTE: because of the pectin from the berries the sauce will be more thick like a jelly not a syrup, so you don't have to reduce it too much.  Now put some fresh berries on and pour the sauce.

To keep with the raspberry theme, I mixed some raspberry juice into milk.  Again, because of the pectin it made a satisfying consistency.

Total cost: $0.63
Fresh raspberries and juice = $0
The Cake and sauce = $0.13
The Milk = $0.50

If I bought a dessert like that in a restaurant I could expect it to be about $6 and a flavored milk costs $1.29, total $7.29, so a savings of about $6.66!