Eggless Mini Chocolate/Vanilla Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups All purpose flour (plain flour/Maida) 

1/4 cup + 2 tbsp Cornstarch

1 Tsp Baking Powder

1/2 Tsp Baking soda

1 Cup Buttermilk (Substitute 1 Cup milk + 1 tbsp Vinegar)

1 1/4  Cup Powdered sugar

1/2 cup Vegetable Oil 

1 Tsp Vanilla extract

2 Tbsp water

Method:

Prepare your cupcake/muffin pan. I have used mini cupcake pan (24) this time but you can very well use regular size (12)cupcake pan.

In a bowl assemble all the dry ingredients the plain flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and soda together and sieve together once.

Pre heat the oven to 180 C/350 F.

In another bowl put in the milk and vinegar and allow it to sit for about five minutes. Put in the sugar and oil and blend If using buttermilk just add sugar and oil to it and mix and blend. Stir in the vanilla extract.

Now put in the sieved dry ingredients into the liquid ingredients, add the additional 2 tbsp water and blend with a hand blender or stand mixer or even just hands until well mixed about 3 to 4 minutes.

With the help of an ice cream scoop or a spoon drop the batter into the cupcake liners and bake for about 20 minutes for regular cupcakes and 10 mins for mini cupcakes. Make sure you don't fill them more than half.

Now, to bake chocolate cupcakes replace cornstarch   with equal amount of cocoa powder and rest of the method will be same.

Eggless Chocolate Cake

For long I was looking for recipe for egg less cake. I had few with condensed milk in them, but they didn't turn out that well for me. When I stumbled upon this recipe on Baking Bites I immediately knew I wanted to try it. Foremost reason, its simplicity. I am a amateur baker..so anything intricate is not for me.Moreover no fancy ingredients needed.

I made it with few modifications and am happy with the results. Cake was light in texture and dark in color. It tastes good giving no hints that its eggless.As for modifications, I did not use Bundt pan but rather loaf pan for baking. Moreover ,I found it little too chocolaty for me so may be next time I would figure out a way to lessen the amount of cocoa powder. I did not have brown sugar, so I simply used sugar. Lastly no glaze for me!!