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Vegan Orange Cake made in 1 Bowl and just 8 ingredients! Easy Moist Citrusy Vegan Cake. Soyfree Palm-Oil-free Recipe.
Weekend calls for some cake sitting on the counter. And this citrusy 1 bowl orange cake makes it very easy to have some around. Esp when glazed with some boozy marmalade glaze! Right?
We end up with a bottle of orange juice or a orange something mix juice every now and then. Hubbs gets some, drinks it a few times and forgets about it. Sometimes he gets it just because there should be something to drink for visitors. And I tell him, we always have water or I can make lemonade. Why get the whole juice bottle, esp when both of us don’t really like it and since packaged juice is just.. that, packaged and questionable. I was brought up in the Orange city in India(yes there is such a city!). Those juicy sweet fresh oranges now appear only in my dreams. The juice from those oranges, so fresh and sweet, also in my dreams. After decades of trying many different options, the sour juice just doesn’t cut it for me. So anywho, I use up the leftover orange juice in this cake. 1 bowl, easy, 8 main ingredients, 2 tbsp oil, vegan orange cake! What do you do with excess juice?
I generally use carton orange juice and the juice varies between brands, types and hence the flavor in the cake. For stronger orange flavor, add zest of an orange to the batter or use orange marmalade frosting. This cake is like a basic sponge cake that needs a moist and flavorful frosting or glaze to make it shine. For more moisture in the cake, add a bit more oil to the batter.
More Cakes from the blog.
- Cream Cheese Marble Pound Cake
- Basic Vegan Yellow Cake
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
- Soy-free Mini Pound cake
- Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake with Chocolate PB Ganache
- Gingerbread Cake
One Bowl Vegan Orange Cake
Ingredients
Dry:
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour or use Spelt flour, (or use 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour)
- 1/2 cup unbleached white flour or all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp starch like corn or arrowroot
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar, I powder raw sugar and use, Add 2 to 4 tbsp more for sweeter.
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- a generous pinch of salt
Wet:
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc. Line a 8 or 9 inch cake pan with parchment, or grease well and dust with flour.
- In a bowl whisk all the dry ingredients until combined well.
- Add the wet ingredients to the bowl and mix until smooth. Pour the batter in the prepared cake pan.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or a toothpick from near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes and remove from pan. Cool completely before slicing.
- Add frosting of choice like vegan cream cheese frosting, or with whipped coconut cream and fruit, or make a boozy marmalade glaze.
- For the boozy glaze: Mix a tbsp of liquor in a 1/4 cup of orange or apricot marmalade or preserves of choice. Heat for a few minutes until bubbling. Use as glaze or serve with each slice.
- For a regular glaze: Use a tbsp orange juice mixed with the marmalade, or mix 2 to 3 tbsp orange juice with a 1/3 cup or more powdered sugar.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Hi Richa, Happy Holidays! I made this cake back in 2017 meeting my partner’s family for the first time. Luckily it was a big hit! So, I want to know if I can make this into cupcakes. My birthday is in a few days and I always bake something to celebrate. This way I can hand out some cupcakes. Wishing you a great new year. Thanks for all you do!~
Hi for cupcakes bake 22 to 28 mins.Happy New Year!
Hey Richa,
I have had mixed experience with that cake, as it came out completely flat a couple of times! I think I used a form that was too big, maybe the ingredients (type of flour…) were slightly different. I did it again recently, with 2 generous tea spoons of baking powder, and in a rectangular loaf form, it was great! I added a chocolate ganache on top, and half-orange slices as decoration, and got many compliments. Thanks for another great and easy recipe 🙂
I’m glad it worked out!
I live in my campervan and don’t have an oven (I have a Remoska) so I like to keep things simple, but I still need cake! This is my go-to recipe – I can’t even remember how many times I’ve made it. It’s so simple and so good. I always add cinnamon and orange zest and sometimes dried cranberries or whatever I have to hand and it’s always delicious, and successful. Thank you Vegan Richa!
So good to hear!
question…. new baker here. What vinegar and what oil works best for this recipe? I’m very excited to try it!
Vegetable oil and white vinegar.
I think this will be a regular in our home! It was simple to make and turned out so nice. I added some chocolate chips and they go really well with it. 🙂
yay!
Hi.
If I’m using all purpose flour, how much do I use in total as it’s mentioned in ingredient 1 and 2, would it be 1 1/4 cup plus 1/2 cup?
I hope that makes sense.
Thank you 😊
Izzy
1 3/4 cups
Hi, can I use almond flour instead of while wheat flour?
Yes, you might need more flour