One of our guests last weekend is vegan, and that can be a big challenge when it comes to baking. I'm not a big fan of the complicated vegan recipes that use a lot of weird ingredients (plus I'm sensitive to some of the substitutes used in things like vegan creamer and vegan cream cheese -- give me eggs and butter over that stuff any day). These orange cupcakes, however, were a big hit. They're moist and fruity, with a fine texture.
vegan orange cupcakes
makes 12 cupcakes
1.5 C. all-purpose flour
scant 1 C. sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
.5 tsp. salt
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1 C. fresh-squeezed orange juice
1/3 C. vegetable oil (or fruity olive oil)
1 T. finely grated orange zest (use a microplane grater if you have one)
1 T. vinegar (white or cider)
1 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tins with liners, or grease and flour them.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and stir together until smooth.
Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tin. Bake about 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Put the muffin tin on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from the tin and let cool on the wire rack.
I topped mine with a very basic frosting (Smart Balance + powdered sugar + OJ + vanilla), but I suspect that using a thin frosting of just powdered sugar and orange juice would have equally nice results.
adapted from the 1997 edition of The Joy of Cooking
8 comments:
I don't think I ever get enough citrus :-) Those cupcakes sound terrific!
I'm on a lemon kick but I'm willing to give oranges a try, that looks delicious!
I adore citrus! I recently made some homemade pasta with lemon - it was delicious, as II'm sure are your scones!
Oooh, those look delicious!
I have some recipes from my grandmother like that, that don't use eggs - they were REALLY poor and I think eggs must've been quite the commodity.
I will definitely be checking out these recipes. I love citrus, too, especially in the summer.
This looks like a great recipe -- thanks for sharing! It reminds me of a wacky cake, which was my mom's standard birthday cake for us kids growing up. It wasn't until I started doing some vegan cooking that I realized a wacky cake is vegan.
I may have to try this recipe just to 'see' the fizz! I seem to be way more drawn to citrus in the winter rather than summer. Maybe there are just too many other delicious tastes happening in the summer to compete!
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