Wholewheat mini cupcakes sweetened with jaggery syrup

That day I was feeling  low for a reason and was craving to do something new or different and that usually gives me a high. So that day I just picked up my mini cupcakes pan and kept out all the staples for cake baking. After couple of hours while I was making dinner for the family I got into mixing the batter and then this recipe evolved.  Husband dear had just got back from the office and he loved the aroma filled in our home :)

Following is the recipe

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour -1.5 cups

Eggs – 3 no.s

Butter – 2/3 cup

Jaggery syrup – ¾ cup (refer notes)

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp.

Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Method

• Take a huge mixing bowl and throw in the softened butter, crack the 3 eggs, sieve in the flour and the baking powder, pour in the jaggery syrup, drop in the vanilla essence and mix well using a whisk until all the ingredients have just come together. Yes, you read it right. That’s exactly what I did.  Don’t over whisk. 
• Once the ingredients have come together gently scoop out the batter into the cupcake moulds and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean when pierced.

Note: Jaggery syrup is made by melting one kg of jaggery with one cup of water, sieve and  and measure ¾ cup from it for this recipe. You can store the remaining syrup in the refrigerator and stays good for weeks.

I used coarse chakki ground atta for this recipe.

Thanks and regards

Chaithanya

Hazelnut cupcakes

Now that's hazelnut cupcakes and it has no hazelnuts in it, but if you wish have a bite of the nuts, please feel free to have it in the batter before baking. I dint have it when I baked these little ones. And this oil have been lying in my refrigerator for sometime, had bought this to make home made nutella.So thought of making use of it before it gets spoilt. But yea it was tasty and the cakes have a very nutty flavor in it. As usual I avoided white flour, used brown sugar instead of white sugar and of course it is  butterless. Following is the recipe for the same

Ingredients

1 1/4 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tspn baking soda
a pinch of salt
3/4 cup hazel nut oil
1/2 cup butter milk
1 egg
1/2 tspn vanilla extract 
1/2 tspn vinegar/lemon juice
zest of one lemon ( optional)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.  Place a rack in the center of the oven.  Line a cupcake pan with 12 cupcake liners and set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt.  In another medium bowl, whisk together hazelnut oil, buttermilk, egg, vinegar, vanilla extract and lemon zest.  Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients all at once.  Whisk together until just combined and no lumps remain.  Divide between twelve cupcake cups and bake for 18-22 minutes or until a tester inserted in the center of one of the little cakes comes out clean.

let it cool and enjoy!!!

Choco chip peanut butter cupcakes

Now this recipe is totally inspired seeing my peanut butter jar lying at my cabinet which will get expired soon ! . Neither my kids nor us like the taste of peanut butter so it was just lying like that. I did try peanut butter cookies a while back , so I thought of trying cupcakes this time and it was good! So tells my kidoos who happily munched it off!

Now shall I proceed to the recipe

Whole wheat flour- 1 cup

Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence  1/2 tspn

Egg - 1

Peanut butter - 1/2 cup ( in which 2 tbspns is butter)

Choco chips- a handful

Baking soda- 1/2 tspn

Baking powder - 1/2  tspn

Milk- 1 cup

Method

Sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda and baking powder and keep aside. 

Beat together the egg , peanut butter and the butter till soft and fluffy.

Add in the vanilla essence

Fold in the flour and milk alternately till the batter comes to a smooth consistency.

Throw in the choco chips and fold in again

Scoop out the batter with an icecream scoop to the cupcake moulds place with the liner.

Bake in a preheated oven for about 13-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean  at 180 degrees Celsius
 

Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack and get ready to munch on it!