December 14, 2009

Eggless Plain Vanilla Cupcakes

About an year back,I had bookmarked the recipe for Basic Yellow Cupcakes at Wilton's. I was new to baking then and tried only eggless recipes. Things have changed much now that I have adapted many recipes to make it eggless, thanks to blogging that I know about various egg substitutes and a special thanks to Madhuram and her many eggless events. I thought of increasing the milk quantity in the above said recipe to make it eggless. But as I said, I wasn't very sure of the outcome. At the same time around, Aparna, posted an eggless version of the same recipe. Her post gave me the confidence to go ahead and I followed her recipe to T. It was absolutely delicious and very easy to put together. As the recipe says, its a basic version. You can jazz it up to any kind of flavor you wish to. I have baked it many times with chocolate and coffee flavors.  Its a keeper recipe.







Ingredients

All purpose flour/maida - 3 cups

Cornflour - 3 tspn (I used arrowroot powder)

Salt - 1/2 tspn

Baking powder - 2 1/2 tspn

Butter - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 1/2 cups

Milk - 1 1/2 cups

Vanilla essence - 11/2 tspn

Mini chocolate chips for topping.



Method


Cream together sugar and butter till fluffy and light. Sift both flour, baking powder and salt. Add vanilla essence to milk.


Add milk and flour mix alternatively to the creamed butter-sugar combo. Beat well after each addition. Once you have done with both milk and flour, beat well for over a minute.

Grease the muffin tray and spoon the batter to 2/3 of the depressions. Add the topping.  Sliced cherries or tuty fruity can also be used as topping. Bake at 180 C for 30 minutes.






I got 18 muffins when I made the first time. Later on I  make only half the recipe. Last time when I made, I filled the muffin pan to half and had some batter left. I baked it in a jelly mould. Here is it






Here is the picture of  coffee flavored cupcakes. I used 1 1/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup of coffee decotion in place of 1 1/2 cups of milk in the orginal recipe.







 

10 comments:

  1. I remember seeing this in aparnas place to and have bookmarked them.
    This looks so so like her, i am sure she will be delighted when she sees this.

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  2. With all those chocolate chips cupcakes looks yummy..

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  3. Baking cakes is something I hardly try. You have inspired me to try now. They look pretty!

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  4. Wow, an eggless version always catches my eye. Those look beautiful.

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  5. Looks super soft..Donno when am i going to try all these..I shud buy a good MW oven first.:)

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  6. I would love to crab the coffee one- they look very moist!

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  7. Thank you very much for the mention Jayasree. I too have seen and bookmarked that recipe when Aparna posted it.

    The ingredients list in this post is obstructed by the slide show. I don't know if it's just my computer.

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  8. that looks so delicious..and loce those choco bits on the top..

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