Eggless Marble Cupcakes

5 from 11 votes

If you love vanilla and chocolate flavors and are indecisive over their selection, this fabulous eggless marble cupcakes recipe will surely delight you. Prepare them for your next weekend party, potluck, or your kids’ play dates, and please your guests with your beautiful creations.

Prep: 10

Cook: 20

Total: 30

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Egg-free, Nut-free, Vegetarian

Servings: CUPCAKES

Calories: 402kcal

Author: Ruchi

Ingredients

VANILLA BATTER - DRY INGREDIENTS

1½ cup All purpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
½ teaspoon Baking soda
A pinch of Salt

FLAXSEED EGG - VEGETARIAN

½ tablespoon Flaxseed meal
1½ tablespoons Water

WET INGREDIENTS

½ cup Oil
1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
1 cup + 1 tablespoon Milk
1 tablespoon Vinegar

FOR CHOCOLATE BATTER - Mix this with ¾ cup of vanilla batter

3 tablespoons Cocoa powder
3 tablespoons Milk for chocolate batter

NUTELLA BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

½ cup Butter
1 cup Powdered Sugar
½ cup Nutella
A pinch of Salt
3 tablespoons Homemade Whipped cream
½ teaspoon Vanilla essence

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

PREP - UP

Preheat the oven to @325 degrees F. Prepare your cupcake/muffin pan with cupcake liners.
Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Stir it well and let it rest for 15 minutes. There you have it – your very own homemade buttermilk.
Tip — Buttermilk is a must for this recipe as it creates a slightly acidic batter that reacts with baking soda to form a beautifully moist and tender crumb.
Let’s make a flaxseed egg –Combine water and flaxseed in a bowl.
Mix and set it aside for 15 minutes to thicken. This is your flaxseed egg. Add it to the recipes as an alternative to 1 egg.

VANILLA BATTER

Sift the dry ingredients through a sieve. Set it aside.
Tip — Sifting dry ingredients helps to aerate the mixture, which is essential for the batter to rise correctly while baking. Sifting also ensures your batter is lump-free.
Combine oil and sugar in a large bowl. Mix until well combined. It will take about 2-3 minutes to blend everything together.
Add flaxseed egg. Now, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients alternating dry ingredients with buttermilk. Whisk until just combined.
Scrape the bottom and sides of the mixing bowl with a spatula to ensure everything is thoroughly blended.
The consistency of the batter should be flowing.

CHOCOLATE BATTER

Combine cocoa powder and milk in a bowl. Stir until combined and your batter is lump-free.
Now add ¾ cup of vanilla batter to this chocolate mix. Mix until combined.
Fill the batter in two separate cones.
Fill the prepared cupcake liners with approximately ¼ cup of vanilla batter. Pour the chocolate batter on top of the vanilla batter until evenly distributed between all cupcake liners. Swirl the chocolate into the vanilla batter a few times using a butter knife or a toothpick.
Bake the marble cupcakes in a preheated oven for 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the middle of the cupcakes comes back clean with just a few crumbs attached.
Tip — Depending on your oven, it may take longer or less to bake these cupcakes.
Allow them to cool in the pan for a couple of minutes, and then remove the cupcakes from the cavity to cool completely on a wire rack.
If you like them frosted, pipe the completely cooled beautiful cupcakes with Nutella frosting, and enjoy!

BUTTERCREAM NUTELLA FROSTING

While the cupcakes are cooling, let's start with the frosting. Combine softened butter, powdered sugar, Nutella, salt, whipped cream, and vanilla essence in a bowl.
Beat the frosting until it forms stiff peaks, and the frosting is smooth and creamy.
Prepare a piping bag and fill it with the Nutella frosting and frost the delicious eggless marble cupcakes.
Top with your favorite sprinkles, and enjoy!

Notes

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a flaxseed meal?

Flaxseed meal is the ground or milled form of flaxseeds. They are available as golden or brown flaxseeds, but the latter is more readily available in supermarkets and grocery stores.

What is a flaxseed egg? Is it vegan?

Flaxseed egg is simply a mixture of flaxseed meal and water. In combination with water, the flaxseed meal turns into a gelatinous kind of substance, very similar to the egg white. It is used in recipes as a great vegan substitute for eggs.

What can be used instead of flaxseeds in this recipe?

Flaxseed meal is used as a replacement for eggs in this recipe, and it works well. But, if flaxseeds are not available in your area, you can use hemp seeds in its place. Hemp seeds form the closest alternative to flaxseed meal.

Can we replace milk and vinegar with buttermilk?

Yes, of course. You can use 1 cup + 2 tbsp of buttermilk as a substitute for milk and vinegar.

What can I do if my cupcakes are stuck to the liners?

This is what you can do —

Coat the cupcake liners with nonstick cooking spray.
This way, the liners will peel away much more accessible from the cupcakes once they’ve completely cooled.

How can I create a marble pattern in cupcakes?

Creating marble patterns in these cupcakes is quite exciting and, at the same time, super enticing. You can create different marble patterns in various ways very easily.

And you would not even require any fancy equipment or special skills to swirl the batter in the intricate marble pattern.

All you have to do is to adopt one of the following tricks:

Take a cupcake liner and pour a spoonful of vanilla batter into it. Layer it with a spoonful of chocolate batter. Keep alternating with vanilla and chocolate batter layering until the cupcake liner is 2/3rd filled.
Alternately, fill half of the cupcake liner with the vanilla batter on one side and another half with the chocolate batter (as shown in the recipe).
In another method, layer the batter in the cupcake liners alternately with vanilla and chocolate batters, and then, using a toothpick or a knife, make a swirl or a star on top.

You can follow these steps to create the marble effect in your cupcakes.

However, it does not matter which method you choose to deploy; these marble cakes are sure to bake into the most irresistible creations that are super soft, tender, and completely drool-worthy!

Nutrition