Make a cake in a mug for your Valentine

"For the perfect Valentine's Day for him, you really should think inside the mug,"  says Stacey J. Miller, author of "101 Recipes for Microwave Mug Cakes: Single-Serving Snacks in Less Than 10 Minutes" (BPT Press, October 2009).

Microwave mug cakes provide a perfect baking opportunity for men who don't spend much time in the kitchen.

Even apartment-dwellers who lack space and cooking equipment can follow the simple instructions to create such delicacies as Chocolate Caramel Microwave Mug Cake, Lemon Poppy Seed Microwave Mug Cake, Blueberry Muffin Microwave Mug Cake, and even Pizza Microwave Mug Cake.

"Thinking inside the mug will provide you with a gift that you can both enjoy," Miller says, "and there's no learning curve. If you can pull together a few everyday items (including a small bowl, any spoon, a mug, and a few tablespoons of flour, sugar, an egg, and so forth, you're less than 10 minutes away from baking amicrowave mug cake together. "