Single-Serving Chocolate Chip Mug Cookie for Passover

shabbat shalom and happy passover, friends and friends of friends!! what an exhilarating, exhausting, peculiar week it was. i’ll have more to share about my own passover seders toward the end of the weekend, but in the meantime, i wanted to leave you with this chocolate chip mug cookie recipe. it’s officially the sweetest way to conserve your pantry staples and indulge your dessert cravings all at the same time. and it’s kosher for passover!

to answer a few other questions i received over on insta:

yes, it actually tastes like a cookie. a good one! this is my year-round, go-to mug cookie recipe; i just tweaked it a little for passover.

yes, you can get by without brown sugar—just sub for the same amount of white sugar.⁣⁣

and yes, you can use matzah meal in place of matzah flour. the resulting cookie will just be a little chunkier and may not look quite as beautiful, but i tried it at the beginning of the week and it still tasted delicious. i personally don’t own matzah flour and don’t have a way to get it, so i threw my own matzah meal into a food processor and let it run for a few minutes to get that finer, more flour-y consistency. no matzah flour or matzah meal? you can also throw an entire sheet of matzah into your food processor to get the same effect.

anyway. all you really need to know is that i adore this recipe. so. good.

have fun and enjoy!

single-serving chocolate chip mug cookie for passover

makes one cookie!⁣⁣ adapted from bigger bolder baking.

what you’ll need:

• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temp⁣⁣erature
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar⁣⁣
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon matzah flour (grind matzah to a fine powder; matzah meal works, too! if you’re using regular flour, opt for three full tablespoons)
• pinch of salt
• small handful chocolate chips

what you’ll do:

1. mix the butter and sugars together in a microwave-safe mug.
2. incorporate the egg yolk and vanilla.
3. add the matzah flour and salt; mix!
4. stir in the chocolate chips, then add a few extra chips to make it look like, you know, a cookie.
5. microwave for 40 seconds, then another 15, then another 10, with pauses in between each interval. check on it frequently so as not to over-bake the cookie—every microwave is different—and be careful when you handle the mug; it might be very hot.
6. enjoy the cookie while it’s warm, straight out of the mug! maaaaybe with a small scoop of ice cream or a glass of milk or (if you’re feeling generous) a friend or quarantine pal. 😉 chag sameach, happy passover!!