Name: Eggless Orange CupCakes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1½ cup + 2 tablespoons All Purpose Flour; ½ cup Oil; ¾ cup Plain Yogurt/Curd; 1 teaspoon Orange Zest; ½ teaspoon Baking Soda; ¼ teaspoon Orange Essence; 1½ teaspoon Baking Powder; ½ cup Orange Juice; 1 cup + 2 tablespoons Sugar; 1 teaspoon Orange Food Colour

Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena

PrepTime:5 mins BakeTime:25 mins Cuisine: English

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Along with my strong passion for cooking, the main reason I started baking is just for the sake of my children!!!

My three children LOVE oranges such that they would eat them in any form at anytime. This being my first baking related post, I wanted to start up with something my kids would love to have willingly.

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I had quite a lot of items in my mind, to give one of them the designation of ‘My First Post’!! But, I went with orange cupcakes as they love & love & love, oranges!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 (3 smileys for my 3 kids)….

Three of them were immensely excited to help me in baking these eggless orange cupcakes, with their little hands!! 🙂 So here is the process and few photographs. The cupcakes were even plated by my elder one!! 🙂

Happy baking and enjoy eating!! 🙂

Eggless orange cupcakes. within 30 mins, using fresh orange fruit. kids friendly, storage friendly, travel food. for party / lunch box. — eggless orange cupcakes

Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned in the end.

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Ingredients: (for 12 cupcakes)

1 cup=250ml; ¾ cup=180ml; ½ cup=125ml;1 tbsp=14ml; 1 tsp=4ml

All Purpose Flour – 1½ cup + 2 tablespoons
Oil – ½ cup
Yogurt/Curd – ¾ cup
Orange Zest – 1 teaspoon
Baking Soda – ½ teaspoon
Orange Essence – ¼ tea spoon
Baking Powder – 1 ½ teaspoon
Orange Juice – ½ cup
Sugar – 1 cup + 2 tablespoons
Orange Food Colour – 1 teaspoon

Special Ingredients:

Orange Essence
Orange Food Colour

Step wise pics Procedure for ‘Eggless Orange Cupcakes’:

PREP WORK:

Firstly, line up the muffin trays or cup cake trays with suitable liners of your choice.
Gather all the required ingredients at one place so that it avoids confusion.
Switch on the oven and let it preheat at 160°C.

*Now, in a large bowl pour in the sugar, yogurt and oil.* *Using a hand blender or a whisker, mix everything until the sugar dissolves completely and you get a frothy layer.* *Into the same bowl, add the orange essence, orange food colour, orange fruit juice, orange zest.* *Give up everything a quick mix with blender.*

***In the same bowl sieve in the baking soda, baking powder and flour*. *Then, using a spatula gently cut and fold everything, till the wet and dry ingredients combine perfectly.***

*Pour in this batter into the cup cake moulds up to ¾ level of each hole.* *Just tap the trays 2-3 times to make the batter settle down evenly.* *Put the trays into the pre-heated oven.* *Change the oven temperature to 180°C and bake them for 15-20 mins or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.* *Take the trays out and put them on the cooling rack.*

**Once they are cooled completely, only then remove the cupcakes. Done!!**

Tips:

You can use vanilla essence in case you do not have orange essence.
Orange food colour can be skipped and have plain cake colour too.
Fresh Orange juice can be replaced with store bought fresh orange juice too.
For Orange zest you need to just grate the orange along with its skin.
I used brown sugar which is raw i.e. unrefined , so my cupcakes might vary slightly in colour.
Generally, I pre-heat the oven at 160°C and then change the temp to 180°C just after putting the trays in the oven.
I did top up the cup cakes with white chocolate sprinkles as my kids love it that way.
You can double the ingredients to get double the cupcake count/double size, just like I did.

Result:

These, Eggless Orange Cupcakes turned out super fluffy.
They are filled with lovely smell of the fresh orange juice and zest.
Every bite of it had the combo of sweet-bitter taste of the orange.

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