Gulab Jamun Cupcakes / Muffins (No Butter)

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Gulab Jamun cupcakes/ muffins are an amazing way to surprise your loved ones this Valentine’s Day.

Soft melt-in-mouth gulab jamuns stuffed in crumbly cupcakes are true bliss to treat your loved ones.

Gulab Jamun Cupcakes/Muffins

This Valentine’s Day I decided to make these Gulab Jamun Cupcakes/ Muffins as my husband and kids love Gulab Jamun the most. If you ask me why I chose to make it into muffins because I want to surprise them. Yeah, the actual main ingredient is hidden in this muffin.

I have been looking for Gulab Jamun stuffed cupcakes. Most of them stuffed the Jamun in normal vanilla cupcakes. But I want the Jamun flavor to be incorporated in the muffin. So I made my own recipe. These cupcakes don’t need any frosting as it is great as such. But you can if you want.

How to make Gulab Jamun Cupcakes/ Muffins

As I said above, I want to make cupcakes with real Gulab Jamun flavor. So I incorporated the Jamun syrup in the batter. You can either reduce sugar or add syrup too. I ground the sugar with cardamom to give the exact flavor and didn’t add any butter but still, the cupcakes are moist and delicious.

I stuffed homemade Gulab Jamun in it for a surprise element. It’s like eating Gulab Jamun in cupcake form. You can also use a store-bought one. This recipe is a great way to use leftover Jamun syrup.

Gulab jamun cupcake recipe

INGREDIENTS

All-Purpose Flour – 3/4 cup

Sugar – 1/4 cup

Egg – 1

Yogurt – 1/4 cup

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Cardamom – 1 pod

Gulab Jamun – 5 mini jamuns or 3 Normal

Gulab Jamun Syrup – 2 Tbsp

METHOD

• Preheat the oven to 350 Deg F.
• Line your cupcake tray with cupcake liners.
• Grind sugar and cardamom seeds to powder.
• Beat egg, sugar, and cardamom in a bowl till light and foamy.
• Add yogurt and beat.
• Slowly add flour and baking powder mix to the egg yogurt mixture.
• Then add Gulab Jamun syrup to the batter and mix it.
• Add 2 spoons of batter to the cupcake liners.
• Place gulab jamun (if using mini jamuns place one or cut jamuns to half and place half in each cupcake) in the liners.
• Top it with batter till it covers the Jamun.
• Bake it in preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes.
• If the inserted toothpick comes out clean, the cupcakes are done.
• Serve as such or you can frost with your favorite frosting.

NOTES

1. You can reduce the sugar and increase sugar syrup.
2. You can use homemade Gulab Jamuns or store bought to make this.
3. If frosting, let the cupcakes cool down completely before frosting.

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