Eggless Orange Cupcakes | Orange Cupcake Recipe
These eggless orange cupcakes are soft and moist and have a lovely citrusy flavor. Here's a super easy recipe to make eggless orange cupcakes from scratch.
Servings 12 orange cupcakes
Ingredients
Measuring cup used, 1 Cup = 250 ml, 1 tsp = 5 ml
Dry ingredients
- 1 & 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 1 & 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
Wet ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup non-sour yogurt
- 1/2 cup orange juice, freshly squeezed or store bought
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Zest of an orange, avoid the bitter pith, or 1 tsp of orange essence
- 1/2 tsp butter extract, optional
Instructions
- Prepare a muffin tin with cupcake liners and set aside. Also, preheat the oven to 350 F/ 180 C.
- In a mixing bowl, sieve all the dry ingredients from a height. Whisk well and set aside. Sieve 2-3 times for a lighter and airy cake.
- In another mixing bowl, add all the wet ingredients, whisk well until everything is well combined and you have a homogeneous mixture.
- Make a well in the bowl of the dry ingredients, add the wet ingredients to the dry. Mix just until combined (about 15 strokes) and no more flour pockets are visible. Do not over mix, or you will end up with a pretty dense cake. A few lumps are okay in the batter. Check notes to read more about it in details.
- Transfer the batter to a prepared muffin tin, filling about 2/3 rd, bake at 350 F for about 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean (Do not over bake as you will end up a with a crusty top). Transfer to a wire rack, let it cool completely before frosting it.
Notes
- If you wish to add eggs, use 2 eggs in place of yogurt.
- For cranberry orange cupcakes- Add 1/2 cup of dried cranberries coated with 1 tbsp flour and fold it gently in the batter before transferring it to the muffin tin.
- For chocolate orange cupcake recipe- Swap 1/4 cup of flour with cocoa powder.
- You can add some orange food color to the batter.
- You can also make a simple orange loaf cake using this recipe in a standard loaf pan.
- For vegan orange cupcakes, use vegan yogurt.