Eggless Whole Wheat Nutella Cupcakes

Nutella is oozing out of the top...heaven...

These cup cakes are incredibly moist and dense but soft like a pillow, the unique salient features of this cake is that it is made out of wheat flour and it is butter less and prepared using refined oil. So two important points to make it healthier without compromising on the taste factor.

 I can vouch for the fact that once you take a bite of this cake in your mouth it melts within few seconds and you won't need to chew much. The best part is you just need two bowls to make this super easy cupcakes, one for the wet ingredients and other for the dry ingredients. Once they are stored in an airtight jar they can last for days together. Goes well along with evening tea or coffee.

Ingredients:
Dry Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of Wheat flour
3/4 cup Brown sugar
1/4 cup Cocoa powder
1 tsp Baking powder
1/2 tsp Baking soda
A pinch of Salt

Wet Ingredients:
1 cup Water + 1tbsp Flax seed powder dipped in 3 tbsp hot water {Let this sit for 10 minutes}
1/2 cup Oil
1 tbsp Vinegar
1 tsp Vanilla essence


1/2 cup Nutella {don't mix this with the batter}

Method:
Pre-heat oven and line cupcake pans with cupcake papers. In a mixing bowl sift together all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, brown sugar, baking soda and cocoa powder) and make a well in the center for the wet ingredients. 

The dry ingredients....

Pour oil, water and vinegar, flax seeds powder liquid in the center and begin stirring from the center of the well, slowly incorporating the dry ingredients to the liquid. With a hand mixer blend this batter on low speed for just few seconds. When the batter is lumps free pour this batter into the cupcake pan, drop a spoon of Nutella on top of each and swirl through the batter with a toothpick. 

add a spoon of Nutella and swirl...

Tap the cupcake pan gently to remove the air bubbles. Place the pan in the middle of a pre-heated oven. Bake for 20 minutes(this can vary depending on your OTG's size
and performance). Mine took exact 20 minutes to bake. Remove from the /oven and let them cool. Basically these are so delicious that you don't need to do the icing part.

Sending this recipe to my friend Lubna's Joy From Fasting to Feasting V