Eggless Vanilla Muffin | Basic Vanilla Muffin Recipe

When I was making the whole lot of chocolate based muffins, I thought I might as well bake one batch of vanilla muffins. How much can I keep alternating with just chocolate or cocoa powder. When I told this to Chinnu, he said with a stern voice that he would not eat it as it's not brown. I asked him why he should think so, he simply said he won't touch as it's not brown. And he kept up his word. We finished it off among ourselves.

When I think about Vanilla cake, I am always reminded of my college days when I was on a baking spree. I used to bake so many different varieties and my friends used to love dropping by. It was also a time when I didn't bother much about baking with eggs, even though I wasn't eating it. I simply used to bake and share with others. Somehow now I won't want to spend time baking a cake with egg, when I won't eat it. I guess lot of this thought has to do with age. As we grow older, we end up getting attached to certain way of thinking.

Lot of things end up being that way. For example, I have never tasted a meat based Biryani. When I was eating meat, Biryanis were not that famous. The only version that Amma used to make was the Nawabi Chiicken Biryani and I vividly remember it being out of the world. We still get the same feedback even today. I don't miss not having tasted, it's simply a fact, the final note. Certain things will never happen, the finality in that thought is amazing. Well I know I end up with such poignant thoughts at this time of the year. However with a funny face forward for much more to come!

Now let's check out this simple cake.

Baking time: 13 - 15 mins

Eggless Vanilla Cupcake

Ingredients Needed

All purpose flour - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Butter - 2 tbsp
Powdered sugar - 2 -3 tbsp
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vinegar - 1 tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Chocolate chips - opt
Chocolate sauce to drizzle over the top (opt)

How to bake Vanilla Muffin

Shift the flour with baking powder and keep it aside.

In a bowl, take the butter and cream it well with sugar.

Add the flour mix along with the milk and vinegar alternating both.

Pour into lined muffin tray and bake in a pre heated oven at 185 C for 13 - 15 mins.

Allow it to cool over a wire rack before serving warm.

Notes:

You can add chocolate chips for extra flavoring. Else glaze it with chocolate sauce.

Check out the bloggers doing the Bakeathon: Champa, Sumana Deepak, Priya Suresh, Veena Krishnakumar, Preeti Deo and Jayasri Ravi

Eggless Chocolate Muffins for Birthday Celebration

I made these chocolate muffins a weekend couple of weeks ago. With the summer vacation on for the kids, they have been after me to make them some muffins. Since these ought to be eggless I was again trying out a different proportion improvising on my other muffin recipe. As a replacement for the egg, I was trying to use Olive oil, milk and butter. And also wanted to have that crumbly effect, so make a cake flour.

Having always thought that one can't make cake flour at home, discovering this simple fix was an amazing thing. I should thank Simmi for sharing her knowledge. Now be it a cake or a muffin, it is not done without corn flour being used. When I finally made these Egg less Chocolate muffin, they disappeared so fast. I just remembered to click few pictures. Second batch I dusted it with castor sugar to make it look pretty. I was baking these non stop for three days and hubby dear was complaining that if these take so much of my time, he will as well get it from shop. Athamma replied that those may not taste as good and kids may not like them.

Check out Eggless Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting for detailed procedure on how to do with step by step pictures. This is very similar muffins and gets done in a jiffy.

We celebrated Konda's birthday yesterday. She had invited her friends and my colleagues also. We are missing Athamma and twins as they have gone to visit my sil. We decided to make Chole Batura, Jeera Rice with Masoor ki Dal. Everything turned out so well and all had a great time relaxing. I was thinking it was high time I make the birthday cakes myself. So to make up for that, I baked a different one this morning, which I will be posting later.

I remember making Seviyan for her birthday last year. And both my sils were here with their families. We were hoping they will come down this year too but couldn't make. I was especially looking forward as I was planning to make some more breakfast thali. Let me see if I can anyway make it.

Now let's get into the recipe details. FYI: The basic proportion that goes into these muffins are same. You might be wondering why I should be posting almost similar recipes. I know how much it matters as each time the taste and texture differs and I would surely hope these different proportions will help a novice.

Eggless Chocolate Muffins

All purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup *
Corn flour - 2 tbsp
Olive oil - 2 tsp
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Cooking Soda - 1/4
Cocoa powder - 2 tsp
Salt a pinch
Icing sugar - 1 cup
Butter - 2 tsp
Milk - 3/4 cup
Chocolate Chips handful

Method to prepare:

In a measuring cup, add the corn flour, add the flour on top of it. This will get you the cake flour.

Sift all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Melt the butter and add to the flour. Gently stir in the mixture. The add the olive oil, slowly add milk and gently mix in. Add the Chocolate chip at the end and stir.

You can slowly add the milk to get the mixture little loose.

Pre heat the oven at 185 deg C. Line the muffin tray with liners and scoop a spoonful into each muffin cup. I used a small cup and got about 12 muffins.

Bake at 185 deg C for 15 mins. Check if it's done by using a knife. Allow it to rest. When it's cooling over the rack, dust the top with icing sugar.

Serve little warm as it tastes best!

Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting | Microwave Convection Recipes | Step By Step Recipe

It was a lazy Sunday which was extremely chill, on top I was on high having met fellow bloggers and then a passion that was rekindled again. I meant after eating those yummy muffins that Divya gave us, I am sure anybody will be. For lunch I made a  new variety of mutton curry and fry though on hind sight find it funny that I actually didn't click pictures of them.

Evening when Konda said she bored, that just gave me a perfect reason to rush out to kitchen to make some more muffins. Well no reasons but then you don't really need a reason right! She was all excited that I promised she can do it all. We proceeded with whatever we had on hand. I didn't have a banana to bake those Banana Muffin again. Though I had half a tin of condensed milk still. I didn't have a soda. I decided I was just going to add whatever I have on hand and pray it will get done well.

Meanwhile the boys realized that their sister was not around and came to check on us. Guess what I had the whole family in my small hole that I call a kitchen. It was a chaos with all three of them wanting to do something. Well finally I managed to get the boys stand on the side, while Konda mixed in the batter. They were so impatient and when it started smelling great, I could see Konda getting so excited. I also wanted to make some frosting as I had bought a piping bag from SFO. Can you believe the nozzles wouldn't actually go through the opening or was I wrong?

Anyway I made both these Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes in Convectional mode and Microwave mode. Microwave Cupcakes were so so easy, will post on that in the following post.

I am so happy to say it came out very well. I can vouch because kids eat 2 of them right away and hubby dear said it was good, which is very rare for him to say on a cake! I was even more happy knowing that I don't have to look out for condensed milk or a cola as my Eggless Black Forest Cake requires!

If you see that frosting is not so professional, you can say we were in a hurry!..The muffins were still hot when Konda piped in the chocolate frosting and they melted right away!

How to make an Eggless Cupcake in step by step!

Shift the flour along with baking powder, cooking soda and cocoa powder.

Then add the icing sugar to the flour.

Meanwhile melt the butter in a thick bottom pan. Allow it to cool.

Once you are done mixing the dry ingredients, mix it to the butter.

Make sure you mix everything without any lumps forming.

Next goes the milk, actually you can add this ahead too, but can wait to check if the flour gets to thick.

Mix everything well together.

Scoop down a spoon of this batter into the lined muffin trays.

Pre-heat the oven at 185*C and then bake this for 15 mins. This is at 13 mins stage.

Allow it to rest or bake for another 2 mins if you still find it very soft.

Remove and allow it to cool.

How to make Chocolate Frosting

This is the piping bag that I got to the do the job! But I was upset with so much that get left behind..

Take the butter in a bowl, start creaming it with a spoon.

Then add the cocoa powder and continue creaming together without lumps.

Then add the icing sugar to the butter and cream again.

It should look something like this. You can cream further if your arms don't ache, just keep creaming. Better if you do it with a beater but then you don't get any excerise right!

Scoop the icing into the piping bag and freeze for 10 minutes. Once the cupcakes are cooled down, pipe on the top.

If you don't wait as we didn't, you will have the melted icing on top like this. Anyway it tasted awesome.



Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting

Yields - 18 Mini muffins
Preparation Time : 10 mins
Baking Time 15 mins
Temperature : 185* C

Ingredients Needed:

For Eggless Chocolate Muffin

All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - 3 tsp
Icing Sugar - 3/4 cup
Butter - 50 gms
Milk - 1 cup (sweetened)
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Cooking Soda a pinch
Cooking Oil - 2 -3 tsp

For Chocolate Frosting:

Butter - 50 gms
Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder - 1 & 1/2 tsp

Things Needed:
Piping bag
Mini Muffin Tray

Method to prepare:

The Eggless Cupcake:

In a thick bottom pan take the butter and melt it. Keep it aside to cool down.

Meanwhile shift together the flour, baking powder, cooking soda, cocoa powder, icing sugar.

Once the butter is cooled, add in the flour slowly and mix well. It tends to get thick so you can add the milk at this stage

I added the oil at this stage too. Pre heat the oven at 185* C and line the muffins with liners.

The batter will be of pouring consistency. Once the oven is ready, pour a spoonful of batter into the cups and bake it at 180*C for 15 mins.

Don't open until it has completed at least 13 minutes. Check with a tooth pick or sharp knife by inserting in the middle to see if it is done.

I kept it back for another 2 mins. but you can allow it to cool down on the rack.

For making the frosting

Take the butter in a bowl, cream it well by using a spoon, beat it well till it starts becoming fluffy.

Add the cocoa powder and icing sugar, continue doing it for about 10 mins or till your hands ache!


Scoop it down the piping bag and freeze for 10 minutes if required.

Once the muffins are cooled, decorate the top.

It was very moist and crumbly.


Notes:

• If you want to bake it without the liners, grease the muffin tray with butter.
• This recipe doesn't required to be careful, this was manhandled by a 9 year old and still came out very well. Just make sure the batter doesn't lump on you, you will then end up breaking the lumps.
• Wait for the muffins to cool down, else the frosting will melt away. The milk I used was sweetened as it was kept for milkshake. So increase the sugar by tasting the sweetness of the batter. 
• Increase the sweetness in the batter if you are not planning to make the frosting.

All the three were eagerly waiting for the muffins to be done. Chinnu wanted the icing and all of them gobbled 1 each right away, went on the second but managed to eat off the frosting and managed to bite more. Konda said she liked the Banana Muffins better. I think she said that because these didn't have those chocolate chips that I refused to part with. I know by tomorrow nothing will remain.
I thoroughly enjoyed these and I can see my diet plans going out for a toss. With the frosting it was divine!

Well I confess, because of these chocolate delights I ended up announcing a Chocolate feast for the Kid's Delight! It's on till the 15th of January do send in your favorites.