Banana Cupcakes--Egg Free
I have adapted this recipe from an old English vinegar cake. It is made by a rubbing in method and does not contain any eggs. I think it could be adapted further to use oil instead of butter, soya milk instead of cow's milk and then it would be a vegan cupcake recipe. I hope to try this out but with another type of flavouring instead of banana.
The resulting cupcake was moist in texture, light and spongy.
Ingredients
8 oz--225gm--2 cups plain flour
4 oz--112gm--1/2 cup butter
4 oz--112 gm--1/2 cup sugar
1/8 pint--125 ml of milk
1 1/2 tablespoons of vinegar
1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1/2 large banana mashed
Method
Sieve the flour into a bowl.
Add the butter which now needs to be cut into small dice size pieces.
Rub the fat and flour together until it is like fine crumbs, between your fingers and thumbs.
Add the sugar
Add the mashed banana and mix together.
Put the milk in a jug and add the vinegar.
In another container dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in 1 more additional tablespoon of milk.
Add this liquid to the milk and vinegar.
This will start to froth.
Add whilst still frothing to the banana and flour mixture.
Mix together and spoon into 12 cupcake cases, about 1/2 to 3/4 full, see photograph below.
Cook at gas 5, 190C, 375F for about 15 to 20 minutes. do not open for the first 14 minutes or else they will deflate.
Check with a wooden stick, if they are too sticky they are not cooked.
Cool on a tray
The flour and butter are rubbed together between the fingers and thumbs until it is like fine crumbs, see below.
The mashed banana is added to the flour and butter and mixed together.
The completed mixture is put into cupcake cases.
The cooked banana cupcakes recipe. Cool on a tray and think about the topping
Hope these turn out well.
The resulting cupcake was moist in texture, light and spongy.
Ingredients
8 oz--225gm--2 cups plain flour
4 oz--112gm--1/2 cup butter
4 oz--112 gm--1/2 cup sugar
1/8 pint--125 ml of milk
1 1/2 tablespoons of vinegar
1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1/2 large banana mashed
Method
Sieve the flour into a bowl.
Add the butter which now needs to be cut into small dice size pieces.
Rub the fat and flour together until it is like fine crumbs, between your fingers and thumbs.
Add the sugar
Add the mashed banana and mix together.
Put the milk in a jug and add the vinegar.
In another container dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in 1 more additional tablespoon of milk.
Add this liquid to the milk and vinegar.
This will start to froth.
Add whilst still frothing to the banana and flour mixture.
Mix together and spoon into 12 cupcake cases, about 1/2 to 3/4 full, see photograph below.
Cook at gas 5, 190C, 375F for about 15 to 20 minutes. do not open for the first 14 minutes or else they will deflate.
Check with a wooden stick, if they are too sticky they are not cooked.
Cool on a tray
The flour and butter are rubbed together between the fingers and thumbs until it is like fine crumbs, see below.
The mashed banana is added to the flour and butter and mixed together.
The completed mixture is put into cupcake cases.
The cooked banana cupcakes recipe. Cool on a tray and think about the topping
Hope these turn out well.
Enjoy, thanks for reading
Labels: Banana Cupcakes, Egg free cupcakes, Fruit
posted by Crazy Cupcakes at 10:46 AM
14 Comments:
Hi, thanks so much for the wonderful recipie. I've been searching for a good egg-less recipie for ages. The cupcakes came out beautifully, but were a tad on the heavy side. I think I need to play around with the quantities a bit... maybe more vinegar?
I decorated with chocolate icing and chocolate crispies... :)
Enjoyed browsing your cupcake recipes...I think I could develop an obsession with them too...if only i had more time! Was looking for a eggless cupcake recipe for my son Daniel for his 1st birthday, will try the banana one out. will let you know...thankyou for your great website(blog).
Jo, Melbourne, Australia.
Ok, thought I would let you know how great the banana egg free cupcakes turned out for my son's birthday. They turned out really well and were only slightly crumbly. Will try them out again maybe with some choc chips!
Thanks again, Jo, Melbourne . Australia
can you turn the banana cupcakes into cake? if so how long should it bake?
could you post the answer to my previous post?
Hi Lauren
Yes this could be made into a big cake. It could go into a loaf tin , square tin or rectangular tin. I would grease and line the tin with what we call greaseproof paper or baking paper. It would bake on a slightly lower temperature than the cupcakes and would take from 30 to 45 minutes.
I would put it in the upper middle of the oven. Give it 30 minutes and check, I see if it is getting firm in the middle or is it still soft. If soft let it cook. If it is firm pierce with a wooden cockail stick in the centre. If it comes out clean it is cooked. If the stick has uncooked cake on it it needs longer in the oven.
Hope this helps. Have a go I always learn by my successes and failures. If it goes wrong serve it as part of a trifle or with custard as a hot pudding.
Crazycupcakes
thanks I'll defiantly try it out!
This is such a quick and effective recipe! Just whipped a batch up for my goddaughter's birthday as banana is her favourite. I've iced mine with vanilla butter icing, they look and taste delicious!! (Well, I had to taste test to make sure they were fit for consumption ;))
Thanks!!
Hello, Jo from Oz having returned for another year to let you know how the egg-free cupcakes went this year. I added extra banana and made 10 cupcakes instead of the 12 recommended. This batch were by far the best (this was my 3rd attempt). I so love the alchemy of this quick and easy recipe. Thankyou so much...I look forward to many more years of baking cupcakes for my kids and the big kids too!
Jo, Melbourne, Australia.
Hi, I'm just wondering what type of vinegar to use in this recipe?
Hi I used malt vinegar but there are so many types that may help or hinder the flavour. I wonder what raspberry vinegar would do? or wine vinegar. Does anyone out there have experience of vinegar in cake recipes and can help us here?
Thanks for coming by
Crazycupcakes
I made these in banana loafs, and not cupcakes YUMMY.
You can't tell there's no eggs and no vinegar!
Now this makes me wonder, in war days, when there wasn't access to eggs, if people used vinegar in their baking instead of eggs?
Glad you enjoyed it. Most loaf /cake recipes can be adapted to be full cakes or cupcakes, just cooked at different times
Crazycupcakes
hi my name is jess and i have a daughter that is severely allergic to egg. im going to give these egg free cup cakes a go today for her birthday, thanks so much for such a great recipe. i have searched and could only find strange looking recipes with very strange ingredients.
hope these ones turn out, as im not the best person in the kitchen ;) haha
thanks again
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