Whole wheat cupcakes

It was my father-in-law's birthday this week. My husband's family has this sweet custom of cutting cakes on every family member's birthday, old or young, near or far. So even though my Father-in-law was cutting his cake in Kolkata, we had a piece of it right here in Sunnyvale :) Well, not really a piece of the same cake though :)

I made these "healthy" cupcakes (with help from my 4 year old daughter) and they just came out PERFECT! Made three batches (six per batch) in about an hour, so they did not take much of our time either. And they tasted great!!!

Made these on my Mom and Dad's  marriage anniversary - 18th Feb

The ingredients here make about 20 cupcakes.

• 1/2 cup whole wheat
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4th cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup milk (I used reduced fat)
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder OR 1 pinch of baking soda
• 2 tbsp walnuts (optional)
• 1 tbsp raisin (optional)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence (optional, but recommended)

Method:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees (F).
• Get the dry ingredients(wheat, flour, baking soda, sugar) together in a dry bowl.
• Mix them together with a large fork. 
• Break the eggs in a separate bowl and beat them well.
• Melt the butter and let it cool.
• Add milk, butter and oil to the beaten eggs and beat them some more. Make sure butter has cooled off before you add it to the eggs.
• Now add the egg mix to the dry ingredients and mix the whole thing for a while. Make sure no lumps are formed. Add the vanilla essence(optional).
• Add walnuts and raisins.
• Fill the cupcake cups upto a little more than half with the cake mixture (I used silicone reusable cups.)
• Keep in the oven for about 12-15 minutes
• Poke with a skewer, if the skewer comes out dry and clean, cakes are done.
• Decorate with cupcake icing.

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