Eggless Chocolate Cupcake

Merry Christmas to all :) This weekend I made chocolate cupcakes for my cute little cousins. It is a super easy recipe and the entire preparation and baking was done in just 30 mins. There could be a lot of variations to this - it could be made plain chocolaty, nutty with walnuts/almonds/cashews or for those who love rich chocolate flavour, you could enhance it with more chocolate chips! Wishing you all a happy holiday season :)

INGREDIENTS

Maida - 1.5 cups

Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup

Cocoa powder - 2 Tbsp

Baking Powder - 1.5 Tsp

Baking Soda - 1 Tsp

Salt - a pinch

Oil - 1/3 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence - 2 tsp

METHOD:

1. In a bowl mix maida, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt. Mix well, sieve once and keep it aside.

2. In a separate bowl mix sugar, milk and oil together and whip it until sugar dissolves completely

3. Now add in the flour mixture with oil, milk mixture and mix well taking care to avoid lumps. Add vanilla essence and mix well till creamy pouring consistancy of the batter is formed

4. Pour the batter in greased muffin moulds (only till 3/4th of the moulds as it would raise) and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180C for 15-20 mins. It was done in 16 mins for me! ( I had only 4 muffin moulds so I poured the remaining in a cute heart cake mould and this took about 20 mins to bake)