Healthy vegan orange cake (Must-try!)
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Pardon for the horrible slicing skills, but today I made a healthy vegan orange cake! Initially I wanted to make a chocolate cake/brownie but I'm getting a lil sick of chocolates since I've been eating so much of it! Especially chocolate cakes and cookies. And chocolate bars.
So I was deciding between orange zest cookies, lemon cake and orange cake. Mum chose orange cake since gramps brought over so many oranges hahah. So I went ahead with baking!
I personally dislike baking anything that requires complex ingredients. And when I say that I mean ingredients that are usually unheard of. Or ingredients that are hard to find, like vegan butter and cheese. Hence this recipe is pretty simple to follow -- only basic ingredients are used. Of course you can always sub some of the ingredients yourself if you want to -- for example, white sugar instead of organic raw sugar or canola/sunflower oil instead of coconut oil. For me I prefer using the healthiest options because I simply dislike the idea of putting anything unhealthy into the food I prepare (Yes, even if its for someone else haha).
YOU NEED:
- 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 large Orange
- 3/4 cup Organic raw sugar (Please do not try adding more than 3/4 cup of sugar because this level of sweetness is already just right.)
- 1/2 cup Coconut oil
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Finely grated orange zest (from the orange used)
LET'S DO IT:
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees C. Grease a 8x8 baking pan or use a baking sheet.
- Blend orange in the blender until liquified, measure 1 cup of orange juice. Make sure that everything is blended. (I used 1/2 cup blended orange juice and 1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice that was store bought.)
- Grate the orange and measure at least half a cup of orange zest.
- Whisk together orange juice, flour, sugar, coconut oil, baking soda, baking powder, orange zest, vanilla essence and salt in a bowl.
- Pour batter into the pan.
- Bake for 30 minutes. (Be sure to check at about 25 minutes to make sure it doesn't get over-burnt.)
- Remove the cake from the tin after 10 minutes and place it on a rack to cool. Allow it to cook for about another 20 minutes or more.
The cake definitely turned out better than expected. It's light yet moist! I can imagine it being as moist as normal banana cakes.
Everyone loved it! Yet another successful bake. :)
Enjoy!
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1 comments
Hello! That looks like a really easy recipe to make!
ReplyDeleteCan I ask how many oranges will I need in order to get half a cup of orange zest? It does seem like a lot of orange zest is required. :)
Thanks in advance!
:)