Eggless zebra muffins ~ 无蛋斑马玛芬

I've never done any bakes without using eggs as an ingredient and when I saw a recipe of eggless muffins on FB, I was curious to find out about the taste, texture, etc.  So without much hesitation and as all the ingredients were at hand, I gave this recipe a go and the result....... soft, moist muffins with pretty swirls!

Recipe for Eggless Zebra Muffins ~   无蛋斑马玛芬   (adapted from  'here' )

Dry Ingredients

• 195 gm plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• a pinch of salt
• 2 Tbsp skimmed milk powder

Wet Ingredients

• 250 ml milk
• 2 tsp vinegar
• 1/4 cup oil
• 140 gm brown sugar
• 1/4 cup hot water
• 1 Tbsp vanilla

Chocolate layer

• 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 1.1/2 Tbsp hot water

Method

1. Mix vinegar and milk in a bowl, set aside.
2. Sift or whisk flour, milk powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside.
3. In another bowl, whisk brown sugar, hot water, oil and vanilla thoroughly.  Then mix in the milk vinegar mixture.
4. Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients, mix till slowly combined.
5. Separate into 2 portions.
6. To one, add the cocoa mixture, stir well.
7. To the other, add vanilla, mix well.
8. Put a layer of vanilla batter into the paper lined muffin pan, do not swirl, then add a layer of cocoa batter, continue to do this till the batter is about 3/4 full.
9. Bake in a preheated oven @ 180 deg.C for 20 mins. till a skewer inserted comes out clean.
10. Let cool in pan before removing onto a wire rack to cool further.
11. Serve warm
12. Yield :  8 Muffins