Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake
This is easily the best, spongiest and the yummiest vegan cake that I have made so far. The right amount of sweetness, chocolaty goodness, and the tanginess of oranges, perfect!! A very easy recipe, and the same batter can be used to bake muffins as well.
I have used sugar in this recipe, however it can easily be made sugar-free by substituting it with the same quantity of palm sugar or jaggery powder. I have also used peanut curd in this recipe, however feel free to use any vegan curd. I get wonderful, thick, delicious peanut curd from here : www.veganarke.com. Bangalore vegans do try their curd and amazing almond milk once, you will become a regular consumer of their products :) The best part is that it is so reasonably priced, that I lose any motivation to make my own vegan curd or milk! Lucky me!
So here is the recipe for this decadent treat!
Ingredients:
- Whole Wheat flour 3/4 cup
- Corn Flour 1/4 cup
- Powdered Sugar 3/4 cup
- Cocoa Powder 1/4 cup
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Baking soda 1/2 tsp
- Any Vegetable oil 1/4 cup
- Vegan Curd 1/2 cup
- Orange juice 1/2 cup
- Banana pulp 1/4 cup (roughly the pulp of two small bananas)
- Vanilla essence 1-2 drops
- Orange zest 2 tsps
Method :
- In a bowl, sift together the dry ingredients : whole wheat flour, corn flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.
- In another bowl, mix nicely using a wire whisk, the vegan curd, oil, banana pulp, orange juice, vanilla essence and orange zest. Add sugar little by little, and keep mixing.
- Now fold in the sifted dry ingredients into this. If the batter is a bit dry, add little warm water and mix well. Do not over mix/whip the mixture. Only fold the batter gently.
- Pre-heat the oven. Grease and dust a cake pan.
- Pour the batter into the cake pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Bake at the temperature settings of your OTG that you usually use to bake cakes. Check if done with a toothpick.
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