Eggless Whole Wheat Banana Walnut Muffins (No white sugar)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 12 mins  
Cooking Time: 18 mins
Servings: 6 muffins

Its very hard to resist a good muffin! Kids will love muffins for school snacks, breakfast and sometimes even for dinner:). 

                                  

But the store bought muffins are loaded with many unwanted ingredients and preservatives. As Moms, we always looking for healthy snacks for our kids. And also we can do anything to make them eat healthy:) 

                                  

I already had few muffin recipes in my blog and this one adds to my list. This is my always go-to recipe whenever I have ripe bananas.

                                 

In my cooking, I am not using refined, bleached white flour and now am trying to limit refined sugar and oil too. So here comes the healthy muffin loaded with all goodness of yummy bananas, whole grain flour, Organic unrefined virgin coconut oil, Organic coconut sugar and walnuts. This is also an eggless muffin.

                                          

 

Ingredients: 

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour/Atta - 3/4 cup (I used white whole wheat flour)
• Baking soda -1/2 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Cinnamon powder- 1/8 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Walnuts, chopped- 2-3 Tbsp

Eggless Whole Wheat Marble Cup Cakes (Vanilla & Chocolate Flavour)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 15 mins  
Cooking Time: 17-25 mins
Servings: yields around 10 muffins 

Marble / Swirling / Zebra Cup cakes are nothing but  cup cakes with both vanilla and chocolate flavour. This is an eggless version and these cup cakes are really very soft and crumbly. Kids will enjoy it for sure and also its made of whole wheat flour:)

WW Marble Cup Cakes

 Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat flour - 1 1/4 cup
• Milk powder - 3 tbsp
• Baking Powder - 2 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Wet Ingredients:

• Cold Butter - 1/2 cup
• Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup, packed
• Milk* - 1 cup (Should be warm)
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Other Ingredients:

• Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp dissolved in 2 tbsp of hot water

*Here I used White Whole Wheat flour, if using Atta we might need additional 1-2 tbsp of milk

Method:

1. Pre heat oven to 350°F
2. Grease the muffin pans / line with muffin liners
   
3. In a sieve add the dry ingredients (Wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder and milk powder) and sieve them into a bowl and keep it ready
   
4. In a mixing bowl, add the chopped cold butter and powdered sugar and beat it well till the sugar gets dissolved and become creamy texture
   
   
   
   
5. To this add the remaining 1 cup of warm milk and beat well
   
6. To this add the vanilla extract and mix well
   
7. Now add the sifted flour into the wet ingredients and gently mix it up to form a batter
   
8. In a small bowl dissolve 2 tbsp of cocoa powder in equal amount of hot water
   
9. Divide the batter into two equal parts; one for vanilla flavour and the other for chocolate flavour
10. For vanilla layer, we will just keep the prepared batter as such
    
11. For chocolate layer, add the dissolved cocoa powder mix into the other half of the batter and mix well to combine
    
12. In the muffin cups, add 1 spoon of vanilla batter
    
13. Then add 1 spoon of chocolate batter
    
14. Again add 1 spoon of vanilla and followed by chocolate batter
    
    
    
    
15. We can bake as such to get the marbled effect
16. If we want, we can also make swirling pattern; using a tooth pick, just swirl the batter gently so that we can view a beautiful swirl pattern
    
    
    
    
17. Bake for around 20-30 minutes (depend on the size of the muffins), or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean 
    
    
    
    
18. Cool for about 10 minutes in the pan and then remove from pan to cooling rack

    

    So soft!!!

    
    

Dates-Walnut Chocolate Muffins (Whole Wheat & Eggless)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 15 mins  
Cooking Time: 25-30 mins
Servings: yields around 12-15 muffins 

Dates-Walnut Chocolate Muffins

Mini Muffins:)

 Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• Wheat flour / Atta - 1 cup
• Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Salt - a pinch

Wet Ingredients:

• Black Dates, deseeded - 1 cup (around 20-25 nos) 
• Milk - 2 cups, divided
• Brown Sugar - 1/3 cup (I used Dark Brown Sugar; Jaggery can also be used)
• Cold Butter - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Other Ingredients:

• Walnuts, chopped - 1 cup
• Wheat flour - 2 tsp

Method:

1. Soak the deseeded dates in 1 cup of warm milk for 2-3 hrs
   
   
   
   
2. Pre heat oven to 350°F
3. Grease the muffin pans / line with muffin liners
4. In a sieve add the dry ingredients (Wheat flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder) and sieve them into a bowl and keep it ready
   
5. In a blender, add the soaked dates along with milk and grind to a smooth puree and keep aside
   
6. Finely chop the walnuts and mix it up with 2 tsp of wheat flour to avoid sinking during baking process
   
7. In a mixing bowl, add the cold butter and brown sugar and beat it well till the sugar gets dissolved and become creamy texture
   
8. To this add the remaining 1 cup of milk, Vanilla extract and dates puree; blend well
   
9. Now add the sifted flour into the wet ingredients and gently mix it up to form a batter
   
10. Fold in the toasted nuts, mix gently
    
11. Spoon the batter into muffin tins 
    
12. Bake for around 20-30 minutes (depend on the size of the muffins), or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean 
    
13. Cool for about 10 minutes in the pan and then remove from pan to cooling rack
    
14. Serve warm with a glass of milk!

Ragi-Wheat Banana Muffins (Eggless)

Category: Baking
Preparation Time: 10 mins  
Cooking Time: 17-20 mins
Servings: yields 10 - 12 muffins

Ragi-Wheat Muffins - So Soft!!!

Ingredients: 

Dry Ingredients:

• Ragi Flour - 1/2 cup
• Wheat Flour / Atta - 1/2 cup
• Baking powder- 1 1/2 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - a pinch

Wet Ingredients:

• Banana, ripen - 3 nos (long variety)*
• Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Curd / Yogurt - 1/2 cup
• Oive Oil - 1/4 cup

Other Ingredients: 

• Toasted Almonds, chopped - 1/2 cup (dusted with 1 tsp of wheat flour)

*Bananas should be ripen very well for the muffins to give the natural sweetness

Method: 

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F for 10 mins
2. Grease the muffin tray or line it with muffin liners and keep it ready
3. Roast the ragi flour in low flame for few mins till we get nice aroma of the roasted flour and allow to cool
   
4. In a sieve, add the wheat flour, Roasted Ragi flour, Baking powder, Baking soda, Cardamom powder and salt. Sieve the dry ingredients into a wide plate/bowl
   
5. In another bowl, mash the bananas well
   
6. Add the Brown sugar, curd and oil, whisk well to form uniform mixture
   
   
   
   
7. Add the sieved flour into the wet mixture and mix gently till combined
   
8. Add the chopped almonds into the batter and mix gently
   
   
   
9. Spoon the batter into muffin cups; fill only 3/4 th of the cup
   
10. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 mins or until its done (can be checked by using tooth pick method)
11. Once its done, remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 mins
    
12. Then transfer the muffins from the tray to cooling rack
13. Serve Warm with a glass of milk!