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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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Just tried this cake this morning, came out very well! Very easy to make with simple ingredients.
This looks so yummy! Can’t wait to make it! I love your recipes!
Dear Richa,
How can one make this with alternatives to oil, white flour and sugar?
Could we use almond butter, more wheat flour or oat flour and date paste?
I have the same question… I can probably use spelt flour for all of it… yes? Any substitute for the powdered sugar? I never use oil either… but, this looks amazing…
You can use spelt flour. You will need a tbsp or so less flour for the batter. I powder my own unrefined raw sugar and use it. You can use any kind of unrefined sugar or coconut sugar. Applesauce might work as an oil substitute.
You can use more wheat flour or spelt flour. You will need a tbsp or so less flour for the batter. I powder my own unrefined raw sugar and use it. You can use any kind of unrefined sugar or coconut sugar. Applesauce might work as an oil substitute.
Date paste will not work as it will add a lot more liquid to the recipe and that completely changes the consistency.
I cant buy whole wheat pastry flour where i live so is it the same this as all purpose flour or not? what could i use instead maybe whole meal?
All purpose flour is refined wheat flour that is ground finer and is only the inner part of the wheat kernel. It is white and makes light baking result.
“Whole wheat pastry flour” is flour of the whole wheat which is unrefined. The wheat used is lower in gluten which makes it better for pastries. “Whole Wheat flour” is also flour of whole wheat. The wheat used is higher in gluten which makes it good for breads. Whole meal flour in the UK is the same as whole wheat flour in the US, which is ground whole wheat berry.
You can use whole meal flour for the pastry flour or use more all purpose flour.
Hi Richa, can we use 1.5 cups total of just white all-purpose flour for this recipe?
yes
Hi Richa..will the recepie work with buckwheat/rajigro/singhoda flours?
Hi Sujata, those are all gluten-free flours will not work as a direct substitute and by themselves. You can use them in combination with wheat flour. Use half rajgira (amaranth) flour and half wheat flour and make a smooth batter and bake.
I love cake with citrus flavours – yum!
Nourishing Amelia | Food, Health and Lifestyle Blogger
Has anyone tried this gluten free?
you can try it with a gf flour blend like bob’s red mill 1 on 1 gf baking blend or use my blend from my gf banana muffins https://www.veganricha.com/2016/02/vegan-gluten-free-banana-muffins.html
I used to have these mini orange cake bites when I was a kid. They tasted absolutely delicious! I love this recipe because it’s made of only one bowl, but it doesn’t look too artificial like the orange cake bites I had.
yep they probably had added color in those bites.
hi, this looks so good and so simple! Any ideas on flour substitutions to make it gluten free? Thanks 🙂
you can try it with a gf flour blend like bob’s red mill 1 on 1 gf baking blend or use my blend from my gf banana muffins https://www.veganricha.com/2016/02/vegan-gluten-free-banana-muffins.html
I love one bowl ideas, will make gf version soon ???? Thank you!
This looks so delicious and has simple ingredients. Thinking I need to grab a few oranges off the tree and whip some up and am imagining it with a dollup of whipped coconut cream! Thank you for the recipe. BTW – Love your book.
Thank you Crystal!
Thank you Richa so much must try this soon!
thanks! Let me know when you do!
Made the one bowl orange cake with tangerine juice because I had no oranges or juice. It had a much richer flavor than using orange juice. That is how I will make this cake from now on.
Awesome! Any citrus juice will work.
Can you make a gluten free orange cake based on almond meal and blended boiled oranges? The one I used to make was centered around 6 eggs (separated, the egg white part beaten then folded in at end), sugar, 2 oranges boiled for 45 mins then pureed, 300g almond meal, some baking powder, and I think that’s it.|
Would be great if you used whipped aquafaba or something? And maybe olive oil as the fat component?
I have a gf almond cake which you can modify to make an orange version http://www.veganricha.com/2016/09/vegan-almond-poppy-seed-cake-gluten-free-cake.html