Vegan Orange Cake with step by step photos. An Eggless, butter less, vegan orange cake that is so soft, moist and delicious that is perfect for tea time.
This vegan orange cake uses water for its liquid base yet turns out absolutely as light as air.
This month, my Blog Hop Partner is Nagasree. She has some yummy traditional Karnataka recipes in her space and all her posts tell a heart rendering story which makes a lovely read.
When I saw this cake, I decided to give it a try as we all love citrus bakes at home.
I just replaced oranges in place of lemon and they turned out absolutely fabulous.
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She had mentioned that the cake turned out a bit dense for her so I made some changes to get it light and spongy and you can see that for yourself here.
I have used a bundt pan to bake this cake but you can also use a loaf pan or even bake them into cute little cup cakes if you are going for portion control. You can also glaze the cup cakes.
The texture of the cake comes very close to that of the Vegan Dates Cake and Vegan Chocolate Cake. All vegan cakes happen to be a hot favorite at home.
If you are looking for a crumbly textured cake that tastes like “Britannia” or “Milka Wonder Cake” that are available in the market for your tea time, I would strongly recommend that you give the Choco Chip Nut Cake a try. I’m sure that you will not be disappointed at all.
Vegan Orange Cake with stepwise photos:
1. Sieve together all purpose flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda together. Add sugar, mix well and keep aside.
2. Grate the zest of oranges and squeeze the juice and keep aside.
3. Whisk together olive oil, water, orange juice and orange zest together.
4. Add the dry ingredients little by little and whisk to a smooth and lump free batter.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan and bake for 50 mins in an oven that is preheated at 180 C degrees.
6. Bake till a skewer inserted comes out clean and cool it off on a cooling rack.
7. Vegan Orange cake is ready to be sliced and serve with coffee or tea.
I have used EV olive oil to bake the cake but you can also use any unflavored vegetable oil.
You can replace half of all purpose flour with whole wheat flour but the cake will be dense and not as moist and soft as it should be.
Vegan Orange Cake Recipe details below:
Vegan Orange Cake
Ingredients
- All Purpose flour – 2 cups
- Baking Powder – 1 tsp
- Baking Soda – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Oranges – 2
- Olive oil – 1/2 cup
- Water – 3/4 cup
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven @ 180 Degrees C. Grease a Bundt pan with oil and flour it. Keep aside.
- Sieve together all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Mix sugar to this and keep aside.
- Grate the zest from both the oranges and keep aside.
- Squeeze out the fresh juice and keep aside.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together orange juice, grated zest, olive oil and water.
- To this wet mixture add the dry ingredients little by little while whisking at the same time making sure there are no lumps to form a smooth batter.
- Pour into the prepared bundt pan and shove into the pre heated oven.
- Bake for 50 Minutes or till a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- When done take off from the oven and place it on a cooling rack to let it come to room temperature before unmolding.
- Vegan Orange Cake is ready.
- Slice and serve along with coffee or tea.
Lipsmacking good orange cake.
That is so lovely!!! Looks so spongy and delicious!! Am bookmarking it!!!
Will try this soon.. Looks so delicious and soft…
spongy spongy cake…delicious..
Looks delicious..
yummy moist cake .want to grab it
looks so moist – this is on my must try list!!!
Perfect…
i m so in love with that bundt pan 😀 what flavors i m almost drooling
Cake looks so soft and delicious… good that it is vegan. will try soon
wow..looks really moist and mouth watering..oranges always add a special touch ..their citrus flavor has something about them that I love:))
Very delicious and yummy looking cake Radhika
Moist & delicious!!! Bookmarked 🙂
Prathima Rao
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love the recipe radhika; the bake looks swell 🙂 The orange tang in the cake must have tasted delish !
super delicious cake.
Beautiful images. I can almost smell cake 🙂
Cant take my eyes from this wonderful looking cake, wish to get few slices rite now.
Cake looks so yum…love the citrusy flavor too.
cake looks soft and pefect.
soft n yummy cake!
looks absolutely inviting and tempting.. very delicious recipe dear..
Looks Super moist and soft. Never put my hand on my vegan baking. Bookmarked it. Would like to try this super soft cake without dairy products.
I love the look of this cake. It’s great to see vegan bakes 🙂
Looks perfect. Citrus cakes are our favorite too, glad you liked it.
Wow too soft and spongy
Soft and moist tea cake.. Great to snack on.. Nice and inviting clicks.
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very soft and yummy cake:)
What a beautiful looking cake..!! perfect sponge for an eggless cake…!!
mouth watering orange cake.
Stunning! The cake looks so moist and light, I’m definitely making it tomorrow. Thanks a lot for the recipe!
WOW!!! Will definitely try this..looks absolutely delish!!
This recipe is wonderful!! I made it for my husband’s birthday and it came out just like the picture. I used 1/2 cup less sugar on accident, I was going to use half white sugar and half brown sugar, but it came out just as good. I used only olive oil and we loved the taste. I also put a marmalade glaze over top. Thank you!
Thank you for the feedback and I love the idea of glazing the top of the cake with marmalade. Yummm.
This. Cake. Was. Amazing.
I may have been more skeptical than even my own brother-in-law, who loves his animal products, but we were all surprised by this recipe. I also topped with some homemade marmalade. I had hoped to try this as a layer cake, but it turned out only half our guests liked marmalade, so I made two nine-inch cakes: one with marmalade and one without. Both were great.
Thanks for posting this.
This. Cake. Is. Amazing.
I may have been more skeptical than even my own brother in law, who loves his animal products, but we were all very impressed by the results. This vegan cake is just a great cake. Period.
I had intended to make a layer cake with homemade marmalade on top and between the layers, but our guests were split on marmalade, so I ended up with two cakes: one with marmalade on top and one plain. Both were delicious.
Thanks for posting this.
Thank you so much for the feedback. So happy that you loved the cake. I love the idea of having marmalade on top. Yummm….
Sorry about the double post. Feel free to delete the first one. Making this cake again this weekend!
I just tried this and for some reason it was so thick, and it turns out i forgot to add water LOL . but it was still not bad. i’ll give it a try again some other time
I am off to buy my ingredients ,will try this today .!
Made this cake today for a tea party. What a wonderful cake !!! Thanks
Thank you for the feedback and I’m glad that you liked it. Keep visiting:)
It’s a fantastic looking cake
I’m planning to try it
Thanks!!
Made the cake today and cannot stop eating it. So soft, spongy and delicious.
I can’t wait to make this for Easter dinner this weekend!
I made this amazing cake yesterday. I only had avocado oil, so that’s what I used, instead of olive oil and sunflower oil. The cake turned out so light, fluffy and moist. I drizzled some vegan glaze over the top of the cake. So delicious! I just had a piece for breakfast.
Hi Jennifer! So happy to hear that you loved the cake. Thank you for such a lovely feedback.
You’re welcome! Your cake is really spectacular. I will most definitely be making this again. I might try making cupcakes. How long do you suggest the cooking time should be when making cupcake version of this cake?
I’m sorry Jennifer. I have never made this into cupcakes so far. I will try it out and let you know about the timing to watch out for.
That would be great! Thanks!
Awesome presentation and yummy recipe..
This cake is absolutely divine! I found it hunting for a cake recipe to serve my vegan friend. This was perfect with no weird/out there ingredients. All I had to buy was the oranges! I also added 1tsp of cinnamon for a bit of an extra kick. Delicious!
Hi Hayley!! Glad it worked out well for you. The cinnamon addition sounds lovely.
This is the best simple orange cake of all. Turned out perfectly. I used rice bran oil instead of olive and next time I will add the cinnamon too! Delicious. Thank you.
Yaay….Glad to hear you liked it. It happens to be one of our favorites too.
I made this cake today.. so simple and soo delicious..it came out perfect.. thank you.. ?
I have made this cake at least 10 times in the past 2 years. It’s delicious and easy so I decided that it’s about time to thank you for sharing this with us. THANK YOU
Thank you so so much for your lovely feedback. I’m so happy that you like it so much.
May I know how much orange juice in quantity since sizes of oranges may vary.
I did this today omg so soft and spongy love it
Hi Alana, thank you for trying and for sharing your lovely feedback.
That’s what I was wondering as well. I came on here to see if anyone had an amount for the zest and orange juice because when I went to the store they were both small medium and large oranges available .
Really good recipe. I make an orange layer, a lime layer and a lemon layer and put vegan cream cheese frosting with more zest from each type of citrus in between the layers. I put the lime layer on top and drizzle it with coconut yogurt. All the vegans love it and all the non-vegans don’t even notice that it’s vegan. Thank you!
Can I replace the Orange juice with some other fruit juice? Like pineapple juice?
This cake is absolutely delicious! I’ve made it a few times and it’s always a hit. You don’t miss the eggs, it’s fluffy and moist. The orange flavour and aroma are so enticing. One of my favourite recipes.
Thank you very much for the recipe!