Eggless Orange Cake Recipe

5 from 6 votes

Loaded with the flavour of fresh oranges, this is the easiest orange cake recipe. Learn to make an eggless orange cake.

Prep Time15

Cook Time40

Total Time55

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Calories: 278kcal

Makes: 7inch round

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.elcius Grease a 7-inch round cake pan with butter and dust it with a tablespoon of flour. Set aside.
Combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar in a large mixing bowl.
Whisk together yogurt, olive oil, and juice in a bowl for 5 minutes or until combined well.
Add the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients. Fold the batter using a rubber spatula. Make sure no flour streaks remain in the batter. Do not overmix the batter.
Once the batter is combined pour it into the greased baking tin.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 50 minutes in the middle rack or until a tester comes out clean.
Transfer the cake to a wire rack. Allow to cool down completely before slicing or decorating. The cake should not be warm to touch.
Dust with confectioners' sugar or layer with heavy whipping cream.
Serve eggless orange cake sliced with fresh oranges.

It is very important to sift and combine dry ingredients so that baking powder and soda are mixed nicely with the flour.
The olive oil gives a moist and light texture to the cake. If you do not have olive oil, use any flavorless oil such as – canola oil, rice bran oil, or refined oil.
Avoid using tetra pack orange juice as it will alter the texture, taste, color, and aroma of your orange cake. And you cannot miss the orange zest.
Quantity of orange juice for cake batter may vary from ½ Cup to 1 Cup depending upon the quality of the flour and type of measuring cup. I would suggest starting with ½ Cup of orange juice if the cake batter seems too dry add more. The kind of flour I use requires 1 Cup of orange juice.
Make sure all the ingredients especially curd/yogurt is at room temperature before preparing the cake batter.
This cake batter does not require hours of whisking or mixing. Do not over mix the cake batter.
From a bundt pan, rectangular loaf pan to a simple round cake tin, you can bake the orange cake in either of these baking pans. Make sure to grease the pan well or line it with parchment paper.
If the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean with minimal crumbs, that is the signal to pull out the cake from the oven.