Coffee cup recipes  Ingredients by the drop and an urge to
experiment yield instant love-in-a-cup  April 11, 2012|By Cindy
Dampier, Tribune Newspapers  When I was a kid, my mother called
me The Mad Scientist. It wasn't that I was an ace in science,
but more that I liked to mix stuff in tiny cups — and leave them
scattered around the house.  So when I stumbled on a recipe on
the Prudent Baby blog ( for a coffeecake in a coffee cup, I was
hooked. The ingredients were insanely tiny (1/2 an egg! drops of
vanilla!) and the results could be tasted in minutes because the
cooking was done in the microwave. The instant gratification
meant that weekday breakfasts could include a warm, adorable
coffeecake for one grateful child. In short, it was kind of
brilliant.  Turns out the coffeecake post was Prudent Baby's top
post of 2011 (thanks to links to it by, among others, an online
group for pot smokers who were psyched about a 5-minute cure for
the munchies). Co-founder Jaime Morrison Curtis, who came up
with the cinnamo