One day the baking bug bit me. It bit me so bad that by the weekend, I was itching like a mad woman to bake something! I usually have all the ingredients but sadly, no eggs. Since there are tons of eggless cakes out there, I decided to do a quick search. Allrecipes had my answer. There were tons of eggless cakes and eggless chocolate cakes in there.
Some had warnings that eggless cakes will not be as moist and spongy as the ones with eggs. I beg to differ as the person who tried and tested the following recipe and dare them to look into the poor, innocent faces of these muffins and say the same thing again! I adjusted the measurements slightly to suit my need and what's more, this one is also butter-less.
So here is my eggless and butter-less chocolate muffin recipe. You can also bake it into a cake if you want. I used some frosting to add some buttery goodness to it but avoid that for a vegan version.
If you had told me last month that I would bake a vegan muffin, I would have laughed in your face and said that's not my kind of baking. Well, guess even I am wrong sometimes 😀
Eggless Butter-Less Chocolate Muffins Recipe (Vegan)
(Adapted from allrecipes.com)
What I Used:
All-purpose flour / maida - 2 cups
Sugar - ¾ cups (1 cup if you are not using frosting)
Unsweetened cocoa powder - ½ cup
Vegetable oil - ½ cup and a little more
Water - 1 cup
Soy Milk at room temperature - ½ cup (I used low-fat cow's milk)
Baking powder - 1 tablespoon (remember, no eggs!)
Vanilla essence / extract - 1 tsp
Salt - a generous pinch
For Frosting (optional - avoid for vegan version)
Butter - 5 tbsp
Icing sugar / powdered white sugar - 3 tbsp
How I Made It:
1. In a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. This is to ensure that the ingredients are well blended. If you don't have a sieve, just make sure you mix the dry ingredients well.
2. Add sugar and mix together. I used powdered brown sugar but its okay to use white sugar as well.
3. Next, add oil, water, soy milk (or whatever kind you are using) and vanilla and mix thoroughly, churning the batter in one direction.
4. Pour into muffin/cake pan and bake in a pre-heated oven at at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 mins or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
5. If using frosting, cut muffins/cake into half horizontally and spread like in a sandwich.
AnuSriram
Thats lovely! Eggless-butterless muffins are a must try for me..
Sarah
A couple others already saw, but milk's not vegan... they look nummy though and with soy milk it would be good 😉
Nags
Hey Manisha,
Yes, it should work in a convection oven (not microwave mode, but the oven, just to confirm). just make sure that you regulate baking time and check to see if they are done occasionally. I am not sure of the baking time but otherwise the recipe should work. Let me know what happens!
anudivya
Looks like the baking bug bit you hard! Looks perfect and lovely Nags.... I lvoe that it is butter less!
Nags
Hey Manisha,
Yes, it should work in a convection oven (not microwave mode, but the oven, just to confirm). just make sure that you regulate baking time and check to see if they are done occasionally. I am not sure of the baking time but otherwise the recipe should work. Let me know what happens!
Anonymous
I baked this in a microwave on the convection mode and it worked very well. It took only about 20 minutes. Good recipe. Thank you.
manisha
thanx 4 d reciepe will definately try it soon....just a query does dis reciepe work with microwave convection mode????
Nags
Hey there anon. I am so sorry about that miss in the step. The milk or soy milk (whichever you are using) goes in with the oil and the vanilla. What exactly do you think went wrong when you tried the recipe?
Anonymous
I just wanted to know that u hav mentioned milk in d ingredients but dere is no mention of it in the procedure .Kindly clarify whether milk is used or not coz i made it and it was quite moist and did not luk like d one in d pic.
Nags
thanks anon, i had almost forgotten this eggless chocolate muffin recipe. thanks for pointing it out again 🙂
Anonymous
Awesome recipe! It's so good! I made vegan icing by taking earth balance vegan margarine, powered sugar, cocoa powder! Yum!