vegan orange cupcakes is a soft moist tangy cake. It reminds me of orange, pineapple vegetarian eggless cakes in bakeries back home. Small Iyengar bakeries in the by-lanes of southern India, cater to the small hunger pangs of hundreds on the way home. Be it kids coming back from school, sport practice or professionals all love a small bite of cake. They serve fresh baked sweets and savory daily and generally over by the end of the day. This orange vegan cake is our take on all those cake slices back home.
Oranges come in plenty when in season. Eat them fresh or have a fresh orange juice. Make an orange popsicle or have an orange sponge cake. You can also enjoy making a jam, preserve, cookies using them. Dry the peels to make your own face scrub. Apply it with rose water, rub and wash. Easy and vegan way to make your face fresh. Citrus mandarins and oranges are just the pick me up you need after a dull long tiring day at work. Bonus: Good for vitamin C.
Other similar eggless recipes for cakes and muffins include Eggless banana walnut cake, Eggless blueberry cake ,Vegan airfryer muffins, Eggless chocolate walnut cake, ,Tutti fruitti cake ,vegan banana oat muffins , Vegan chocolate muffin & Vegan Christmas cake .
What is vegan cooking?
It is a strict vegetarian diet which also excludes the use of meat, eggs, honey and dairy products. Vegans also like to use no-animal product in things they use in daily life.
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Equipment
- fan-forced oven
- muffin liners or greased muffin trays
- wire rack
- whisk /stand mixer /hand mixer
- toothpick
- saucepan
Ingredients
- all purpose flour/ plain flour / maida
- oat flour
- powdered sugar
- baking powder
- baking soda
- oil
- chia seeds powdered +½ cup water
- reduced navel / valencia orange juice + fresh orange zest (refer step below)
- oat milk
Garnish
- 1 tbsp. chia seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Boil 1 cup of orange juice along with rind of 1 orange,let it come to gentle boil and once its reduced to ½ cup, Let it cool.
- Move this mix to a bowl ,Add powdered sugar to it.
- Add the powdered chia seeds(with water),oil and oat milk. mix the ingredients well with a beater.
- Sift oat flour, plain flour along with baking soda and baking powder and start adding this to the mixture slowly.
- Start mixing the batter with a hand whisk. (using the stand mixer to mix them might over mix the batter.)
- Preheat oven for 10 mins. Meanwhile, pour the batter in cupcake tins lined with cupcake liners.
- Top tip: You can use piping bag to pour the batter or ice cream scooper.
- Garnish with chia seeds optionally.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 25 mins at 170 deg C or until toothpick comes clean.
Substitutions
- You can use any type of plant-based milk instead of oat milk if you like. Almond milk, soy milk or hemp seed milk. I love making hemp seed milk in my Vitamix. It is quite neutral in taste and goes great even in masala chai.
- You can use any vegetable oil to make this cake batter. I use either olive oil or sunflower oil in this vegan recipe. Vegetarians can use ghee instead of oil.
- You can use lemon juice and zest to make a lemon cake alternatively. Other fruits than can be used are blood oranges, mandarins, tangelo and yuzu.
- whole wheat flour can be used instead of plain flour. However, you may need to adjust the liquid content in the cake for a flowing batter.
Variations
You can also do chocolate tofu vegan cream on it or bake whole orange cake. You can also bake vegan chocolate orange cupcakes by adding some orange zest to chocolate cupcakes. Another great way is decorating orange muffins with a delicious chocolate frosting on top of each cupcake. Orange frosting also makes a great garnish on this delicious dessert. Orange buttercream or simple icing sugar also makes it look special.
Storage
Let your delicious cupcake cool on a cooling rack until it comes to room temperature. Store these vegan cupcakes in a sealed container. They last 4-5 days in refrigerator.
Top tip
Grind oats to make oat flour in advance. This way you can get oat milk anytime you need. Just mix with water and strain. It also helps you avoid market based plant milks which might have other elements added.
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Orange vegan muffins recipe | chia seed muffins
Equipment
- fan-forced oven
- muffin liners
- muffin trays
- whisk /stand mixer /hand mixer
- toothpick
- saucepan
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain flour unbleached plain flour
- ¾ cup oat flour can be replaced with ¾ cup wholemeal flour
- ½ cup raw sugar powdered
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup oil
- 2 tbsp. chia seeds powdered +½ cup water
- ½ cup reduced naval orange juice +zest
- ¼ cup oat milk
Garnish
- 1 tbsp. chia seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Boil 1 cup of orange juice along with rind of 1 orange,let it come to gentle boil and once its reduced to ½ cup, Let it cool.
- Move this mix to a bowl ,Add powdered sugar to it.
- Add the powdered chia seeds(with water),oil and oat milk. mix the ingredients well with a beater.
- Sift oat flour, plain flour along with baking soda and baking powder and start adding this to the mixture slowly.
- Start mixing the batter with a handwhisk,using the stand mixer to mix them might over mix the batter
- Preheat oven for 10 mins. Meanwhile, pour the batter in cupcake liners. Garnish with chia seeds optionally.
- Bake for 25 mins at 170 deg C or until toothpick comes clean.
FAQs
overmixing batter & no using right egg replacer can cause it.
It has plant based milk not dairy milk.
eggs, milk & milk products, honey. Only raw sugar is used not white sugar.
Ramesh says
Testy one.
Break A Recipe says
These look great! Hope you enjoy them. Thanks for sharing!