vegan orange cake recipe
vegan orange cake recipe is the simple cake recipe made with fresh orange juice and without dairy products.
Ingredients
1 cup = 200 ml
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (178 gm)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp corn flour/cornstarch
- salt a pinch
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup jaggery (or sugar)
- 1/2 tsp orange zest
Instructions
- Take a bowl and add oil and grated or roughly crushed jaggery in it.
- Mix them. No issues if you are finding difficulty in dissolving jaggery completely.
- Add orange juice in the bowl. we have used the homemade fresh juice but you can use the store brought also. mix.
- Now place a big sieve over the bowl and sieve whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and corn flour in it.
- Add orange zest.
- Mix them by using cut and fold method as shown in video, but don't overdo.
- Transfer the mixture in a cake tin in which butter paper was already arranged and the tin was greased very well with oil.
- Gently tap the cake tin so that excess air bubbles are released and surface of the batter becomes plain.
- Transfer the cake tin in oven and bake in the middle rack of Oven for 40 to 45 minutes at 180°C with both the rods on. You can also bake it in microwave on convention mode.
- Check the doneness by inserting a toothpick or knife in the cake and if the toothpick/knife comes out clean, it means your cake is ready.
- Let then turn cool and thereafter invert on a plate.
- Cut the cake into slices and it's a time to cherish....
Notes
- Instead of whole wheat flour, you can use all purpose flour or 50:50 of both.
- The substitute of corn flour is vanilla flavored Custard powder. Use it if you don't have corn flour.
- The size of the bowls you are using matters, mainly the bowl carrying the wet ingredients. Although initially both dry and wet ingredients are kept separately in 2 different bowls but finally everything comes together in bowl 2 in which wet ingredients are kept. So use a big size bowl, especially for adding wet ingredients.
- Store brought orange juice can also be used in place of fresh homemade juice. But keep one thing in mind, if you are using fresh homemade juice, then make juice not much prior to making eggless orange cake otherwise juice may turn bitter and hence can spoil your cake.
- You can also use olive oil or butter in place of vegetable oil. If using salty butter, then it is better to skip the addition of salt as an ingredient.
- Also, jaggery can be replaced by Sugar.
- Orange zest is an ingredient that is prepared by scraping or cutting from the outer, colorful skin of orange peel. Zest is used to add flavor to food. But be careful while scraping, don't add the inner white portion of orange peel because it may bring bitterness to your cake/muffins. For more strong flavor, you can also add orange essence also.