eggless orange cake
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Recipe type: dessert, brunch
Cuisine: world
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Serves: 3-4
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour or all purpose flour/maida or half-half of both the flours
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • a pinch of salt
  • 3/4 cup orange juice
  • 1/2 cup powdered jaggery organic unrefined cane sugar or regular fine or powdered sugar (add more if required)
  • 1/4 cup olive oil or butter
  • 1/2 tsp orange zest
  • 1 tbsp eggless vanilla custard powder or corn flour/corn starch
Instructions
  1. preheat your oven to 180 degrees C.
  2. sieve the whole wheat flour with salt, baking powder and baking soda.
  3. in a bowl add the sugar and oil.
  4. with an electric beater or hand beater or a wooden spoon, beat this mixture of oil/butter and sugar till well blended and creamy.
  5. now add the orange juice and orange zest.
  6. stir well.
  7. fold in sieved flour and custard powder/corn starch.
  8. after folding, you can even lightly beat the cake mixture.
  9. pour the batter in a lined or greased cake tin of about 7x4 inches.
  10. bake in a preheated oven for 180 degrees C for 30-35 minutes.
  11. serve warm with tea or coffee.
Notes

if using fresh orange juice, then make the juice just before you add it to the oil-sugar mixture. keeping orange juice for a long time can result in it getting bitter and spoiling the taste of the cake.
Recipe by Veg Recipes of India at http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/eggless-orange-cake/