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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 there, made this and loved it but would like to try and produce a lighter version. If i used a white self raising flour would it work and would I omit the cornstarch?
Use all purpose flour and starch. If you use self raising flour, you might have to reduce the baking soda in the mix.
This cake is fantastic! It’s still warm and I can’t stop eating it, didn’t even get a chance to glaze it yet. It’s pretty sweet and moist so I might not bother. I followed the instructions, but added 1 extra tablespoon of oil, orange rind, dried cranberries and pecans as well as substituted half a tsp of vanilla for orange extract, which probably wasn’t necessary. The whole thing tastes like Christmas!
yay!
how do i thank you for this amazing recipe -i omitted the corn starch and used coconut sugar and coconut oil with gluten free flour for this cake -its moist delicious and the perfect mothers day gift for my family -cannot wait to try your other vegan recipes -thanks
thats amazing!
I don’t know why my orange cake did not rise more than 1/2 to 3/4 inch. It was very dense. My children and hubby liked it, but it was more candy-like than cake. I am quite disappointed as I was so much looking forward to make this cake after having made your fabulous one-bowl strawberry cake. The only thing I changed was that I used Xylitol, 3/4 cup that I turned into powder in my Vitamix. I used one cup freshly pressed orange juice. Where did I go wrong?
Hi Isabelle,
Did you use xylitol in the strawberry cake too?
I am not sure what happened with this one. If the strawberry cake came out well, then the baking soda is good. Both are very similar recipes. I haven’t baked with xylitol before. I suspect that the xylitol could have something to do with the cake being gummy. Or maybe the cake needed some more time to bake through since the moisture in orange juice varies. Sugar also thickens the overall batter, so without sugar maybe the batter was too wet and needed extra baking time.
Made it this morning! Yummy. Took it to a meditation retreat and everyone ate it mindfully at tea time. 🙂 I accepted a number of compliments on your behalf. 🙂
I used all white-whole wheat flour and doubled the vanilla but otherwise kept to the recipe as stated. I made the marmalade glaze (the o.j. version) and it was super! Bonne Maman brand marmalade is great, they use the traditional bitter oranges.
Thanks for another lovely cake recipe, Richa.
Best orange cake ever, I added orange zest of one medium orange and orange liqueur and dark chocolate chips- out of this world.
Awesome! sounds like an amazing combination!
I meant to give this 5 stars, but was too late to change it. It certainly deserves 5*****!!!!!