CAKE IN A GIFT MUG

With the holidays fast approaching and a lot of us scrambling for neat ideas for inexpensive gifts, here is a cute idea that doesn't take much money--get the ingredients at $Store for even more savings!
Here's an idea--if you're wanting to give a gift to someone who isn't interested in making it, just make cupcakes, plop one in a coffee mug..put a cocoa mix underneath the cupcake and tie it up with a pretty bow! Enjoy!

Cake in a Coffee Mug (Gift Mug)
This recipe will make 8 or 9 coffee mug gifts.
1 (18.25 ounce) box cake mix any flavor
1 small box instant pudding mix (not sugar free), any flavor
Place dry cake mix and dry pudding mix into a large bowl and blend well with a whisk. This will be about 4 to 4 1/2 cups dry mix and will make 8 or 9 coffee cup cake mixes. Place 1/2 cup dry mix into a sandwich bag. Place mix into a corner of the bag and tie it there with a twist tie. Continue making packets until all your dry mix is used.

Suggested Flavor Combinations:
Lemon cake mix - lemon pudding
Yellow cake mix - coconut or banana cream pudding
Devils food cake mix - chocolate pudding
Pineapple cake mix - coconut pudding
Butterscotch cake mix - butterscotch pudding

Select a large coffee mug. Make sure that it contains no metallic paint as it will be used in the microwave. Check it to ensure that it holds 1 1/2 cups of water.

Glaze Mix:
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons dry flavoring like powdered lemonade mix, powdered orange breakfast drink mix, cocoa powder, powdered coffee creamer like hazelnut or french vanilla.(sold by coffee flavorings)
NOTES
Select the flavoring appropriate to the cake you are making.
For the pineapple coconut cake include flaked coconut in a separate bag with instructions to sprinkle it over the frosted cake.
Place the glaze mix ingredients into a sandwich bag and tie into corner of bag. Label this bag Glaze Mix and attach it to the other bag with a twist tie.
Place one baggie cake mix and one baggie glaze mix in each coffee cup.

Now attach the following baking instructions along with your Gift Card Greeting to each coffee cup:

Bake a cake in a coffee cup.!
Generously spray inside of coffee cup with cooking spray. Empty contents of large packet into cup. Add 1 egg white, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil and 1 tablespoon water to dry mix.
Mix for 15 seconds, carefully mixing in all the dry mix. Microwave on HIGH for 2 minutes.( you may not get satisfactory results in a low wattage small microwave).
While cake is cooking, add 1 1/2 teaspoons water to Glaze Mix and squeeze baggie until mixed.
Mix well. When cake is done, cut a small corner off the glaze baggie and drizzle glaze over cake in cup. Enjoy while warm.