Eggless Orange Cake Recipe : Fusion of Tangy Orange Flavor!

For all the non-chocolate lovers, here’s the heart winning healthy Eggless Orange Cake Recipe. There is no confusion or fuss in making of simple and easy orange cake. It only requires fresh, fruity and flavorful oranges with side elements like sugar and baking soda for the cake batter.

Eggless Orange Cake

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  • Recipe Category: Baking
  • Cuisine: Dessert

Description: For the beginners in the baking, this can be your best attempt to start with. The basic ingredients are easily available in pantry or stores. It can be eaten as muffins or presented as cake with the frosting. Learn this Eggless Orange Cake recipe and taste the tangy thunder of sweet oranges.

Eggless Orange Cake Recipe

Eggless Orange Cake Recipe Ingredients:

  • Oranges – 4 cups
  • Orange Juice – 1 ¼ cups
  • Orange Zest – ½ tbsp.
  • Corn Starch – 1 tbsp.
  • Granulated Sugar –1 ½ cups
  • Cake Flour – 1 ½ cups
  • Baking Powder – ¼ tsp.
  • Baking Soda – 1 tsp.
  • Vegetable Oil – ¼ cup (use saffola oil)
  • Vinegar – 1 tbsp.
  • Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp.
  • Unsalted Butter – ½ cup
  • Water – ¼ cup
  • Salt – as per taste

Note: If you have oranges at home, then prepare orange zest at home. It is the outer layer of the orange, known as orange skin. You can easily peel off the orange skin with the help of grater. Do not use the white inner portion of the orange zests as it is bitter.

You can also prepare orange juice at home or buy from store. Use Eggless Vanilla Custard Powder instead of corn starch.

If you do not have cake flour, then use the same proportion of all-purpose flour in making of the cake batter. The reason we use cake flour is because it gives spongy, soft, light and fluffy texture to cake.

Eggless Orange Cake Recipe Steps:

Pre-Preparation:

  • Pre-heat oven to 180 degree C for 40 minutes. (click to buy microwave oven online)
  • You can also set temperature to 190 degree for 20 minutes.
  • Cake Batter: Sift the cake flour in a large mixing bowl. Sieve the baking powder in the same bowl. Also add the corn starch powder along with the baking soda. Mix the strained ingredients properly and also add salt as per the taste. Set this bowl aside for some time for ingredients to rest.
  • Orange Juice: Wash and Rinse Oranges. Peel off their skin and remove seeds. In an electric juicer, blend the orange segments. Add pinch of sugar.
  • Orange Icing: Take the sugar in a mixing bowl, add orange juice and mix till it becomes smooth. Keeping adding juice at increments. Now add the orange zest to the icing. Whisk or beat the mixture till it takes a consistent form. Keep the bowl aside.
  • Cream Mixture: You have a whip attachment, then fix it with another bowl of stand mixture fitted. Mix the sugar with the oil. Beat the mixture of oil and butter till it becomes creamy. Also mix orange zest with some Jaggery and water. Whip at a medium speed and also scrape the sides. Do this for 5-7 minutes till the mixture achieve light texture and becomes airy. Continuously whip the mixture till it become smooth. Once done, keep this aside.

Note: Use whipping machine or you may whip with the spoon or whisker.

Preparation:

  • Add the orange juice to the cream mixture bowl.
  • Stir the mixture well to season evenly with the orange juice.
  • Now to this add the cake batter of the sieved flour.
  • To this add the orange zest or the orange essence from the extract.
  • Mix well the ingredients.
  • Butter and grease the cake pan.
  • Pour the batter in the cake tin.
  • Scrape the batter from the sides with spatula and add to cake pan.
  • Tap of the sides of the cake pan, so that the air bubbles are released.
  • Bake the cakes in oven until the surface becomes fluffy. It should bounce back when pinched with toothpick.
  • Remove the cake from the baking oven and keep the tray of cake pans over the wire rack and allow them to cool completely.
  • Once the cake is cooled, with the help of knife, trim the uneven top upper layer of the cake to make it look even.
  • Pour the icing mixture in a piping bag, and drizzle over the cake.
  • Let the icing settle over the cake for few minutes.

And the extremely delicious eggless orange cake recipe is ready.  Drizzle the frosting and cherish.

Note: Avoid lumps in the cake batter. Use pastry brush to spread icing evenly.

Additional Information:

  • Calories: 132 calories
  • Total Time: PT60M
  • Serves: 6
  • Date Published:

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The citrus flavored cake has a cute crumbly texture with a charming light orange color. The divine aroma of the oranges, the spectacular smell of the baked cake, is enough to tempt a kid or an adult. The beautiful orange flavored icing over the cake quickly grabs the eye balls. The fun flavors in the zest of orange are outrageously delicious.

The soft, spongy and fluffy cake is healthy to due to nutritious facts of orange. The twist in the recipe can be the addition of Jaggery which makes the cake healthier. This makes the orange cake organic and hearty to have. The preparation has the flexibility to adjust with the proportion of butter, oil, sugar or other ingredients keeping health quotient in mind.

Remarks:

  • The Eggless Orange Cake recipe requires nearly 1 hour to cook.
  • Oranges are rich source of vitamin C and the cakes contains no cholesterol and low amount of sodium.
  • You can adjust the amount of sugar as it contain high proportion of sugar in its making.
  • Make use of Fresh Orange Juice.
  • The cake is edible for a week if stored in fridge.
  • Use more baking soda if you do not have baking powder.
  • You can also use Almond Flour.
  • You may add cherry to the batter.
  • The cake can also be cooked in the pressure cooker.
  • You can make fusion of the cake, with addition of clove, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Garnishing:

Cut the pieces of cake or serve it as whole over the cake table. You can eat the cake with any hot beverage. Garnish the orange cake with:

  • Cream Swirls
  • Melted Chocolate
  • Mint Leaves
  • Orange Rings
Quick Tip:
  • If you want to make cake flour at home then mix 1 cup of all-purpose flour with the mixture of 2 tbsp. of all-purpose flour and 3 tbsp. of corn flour.
  • Wait for the icing to settle and dry over the cake before you start cutting the pieces of the cake.
  • You can make this lovely orange cake for the birthday parties or you may have it for your breakfast paired with the healthy orange juice from orange squash.
  • If you are using the store bought orange juice, your cake might lack the enhanced flavor of oranges. To compensate with that add few drops of orange extract from the top.
  • Top a scoop of vanilla ice-cream over this cake and sprinkle the chopped almonds. It would give a wonderful flavor with a bit of crunch.
Time Serving Calories
 60 minutes   5 to 6 people  132 calories

The Eggless Orange Cake recipe is a yummy and delicious dessert made from fresh oranges and sieved wheat flour. This vibrant bright cake is soft to hold and light to have. The high amount of sugar may restrict its regular eating. But however much extra you eat, this lightness of this cake won’t make your stomach feel heavy. We have used the orange juice in this cake which gives the shiny and glaze to the texture of our cake. Whereas the use of the orange zest in this cake recipe is to infuse the citrusy orange flavors in the cake.

Whenever this cake is made in your kitchen, it will spread a sweet citrusy aroma all over the place. You would be tempted to eat this cake as soon as it is baked not only because of taste and bright orange texture but also because of lovely fragrance.

This divine cake from the pulpy orange gives a burst of flavors with the first bite itself. This yummy Orange flavored cake from fresh organic oranges is extremely easy to attempt. This vegan orange cake required very few ingredients for its preparation. The icing over this lovely cake is optional and you can even choose to eat it plain without the frosting.

If you love the sourness of the Curd, then you can use 3/4th cup of yogurt in the above mentioned recipe. The combination of tofu or paneer cubes with the yogurt will do some magic to the taste of cake. But if you do not have tofu or you do no prefer having tofu then use just the yogurt. Tweak with the traditional way of preparing this eggless orange and make it your customized cake. You can twist with its flavors and the taste as well, the only key is to make the batter with the consistency.

When you are new in the baking or in your early days of cooking, you might be little hesitant to try any other flavors other chocolate or vanilla. You might worry that the cakes made from citric flavored fruits won’t taste good. Also you might wonder how you would bake the cakes of these fruits retaining their original taste and flavors. Our usual taste buds are accustomed to few basic flavors only and thus we stick to making those cakes only. When you are into the baking, you must keep trying new and innovative idea which makes your baking interesting. You can also try the sweet pineapple cake which needs the fresh pineapple juice, it is easy to adapt its taste. Once you have developed the taste of citrus flavors and your taste buds love it, then you might be interesting in learning different citrusy food varieties. The other citrusy flavored cake which is equally yummy and tasty is the eggless lemon cake with the lemon zest. The other food dishes from the fruit oranges which you can make at home are:

  • Orange chocolate cupcake
  • Orange muffins
  • Orange cream biscuit

If you are baking the cake for the first time, then it might not a successful effort but do not lose the confidence. There are various other simple and very easy bake recipes like the orange cake recipe which you can try as beginners. The other eggless baking dishes which you would like to try is the simplest and easiest eggless vanilla cake which is the most common cake as well. The eggless pound cake is also good to try for the budding chefs of the kitchen. If you love chocolates, then check out how to make eggless chocolate mousse recipe or the eggless Choco chip muffins recipe. In the season of mangoes, you can attempt a sweet mango dessert of the eggless mango cake with or without the mango frosting. The baking cakes such as Eggless Mawa Cake or Eggless Banana Cake are good and healthy to have in breakfast with a glass of juice.

There are numerous other cake combinations which you can try with your favorite fruit or any other ingredient. The sprinkle of chopped fry fruits add both taste and flavors to any of your cake. These chopped almonds, walnuts or cashews also gives your smooth and creamy cake a touch of crunchy texture. Do keep trying until you cake comes out be soft, colorful and flavorful!