Low fat orange yogurt cake is a mildly sweet moist cake with bursting flavors of orange and warm spices. Make this cake effortless with any hand blender or your juicer mixer grinder , the end results are always same.
This eggless orange cake is a perfect tea time cake and is good on your waistline too.
I'm not a cake lover but saying so there are some exceptions for my all time favorite plum cake , banana muffins and also lamingtons.
This recipe post is updated from achieves , was first published in March 2016
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About this recipe
This low fat spiced orange cake is a perfect tea time cake , lightly spiced, moist and too good to resist. With Christmas around the corner made this citrus cake , it's so good in taste and has 162 k calories per big slice
Low fat orange cake is really easy to make with few handful ingredients and you can make effortlessly in a mixer grinder. Or just blend everything with a hand blender and it's good to go. No need of any stand mixer to achieve a moist , utterly delicious orange cake.
Low fat spiced orange cake is
- Easy to make
- Simple
- Effortless
- Tasty
- Low Calories
Ingredients
To make this delicious tea cake , all you need is traditional cake ingredients flour, baking powder , cooking soda and salt . Along with it to make a low fat cake with tasty citrus note , following are the ingredients that get in while making this cake, moist and flavorful.
Brown Sugar - I'm hooked to this ingredient for baking as it is less sweet and gives a real good color to the baked goods. But you can use unrefined sugar too in this recipe
Flax eggs - Actually recipe called for eggs but I use Flax eggs as I wanted to make it eggless. You can substitute eggs for flax eggs or chia eggs
Orange - Orange juice and orange zest , hero ingredient as it adds depth of flavors . Be sure to use fresh fruit orange juice as it adds flavors and naturally acidic , which helps to achieve great texture in cake inspite of using less fat.
Oil - use olive oil or any vegetable oil to make this cake. Just ¼ cup is sufficient to make this low fat orange cake.
Yogurt - Yeah , this is a yogurt cake. Don't skip on this !
Vanilla - Oh yes, it's needed though we are making a orange cake because it hepls the flavors to pop.
Warm spices - nothing is as better as spiced cakes in winter , isn't it ! I have used cinnamon powder , clove powder , ginger powder and pinches of nutmeg.
Do refer recipe card for actual measurements.
FAQ's
Can I make this with eggs?
Yes of course , you can use either eggs or flax eggs alternatively in this recipe
Can I make this with whole wheat flour ?
Yes you can bake this with whole wheat flour. I have made this several times , tastes great !
Can I refrigerate leftover flax egg?
Awww, It stays good in sealed container for 1-2 days in fridge . But I recommend to make it fresh as it is super easy and a quick recipe.
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How to make low fat spiced orange cake
Flax Egg:
In a JMG , blend 1 tablespoon of flaxseed into fine powder.
Transfer into a bowl and add 3 tablespoon of water.
Whisk well together and set aside for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes , it turns gelatinous and thick ; Flax egg is ready to use
To make Cake :
Sift all purpose flour , baking powder , cooking soda, salt , warm spices together into a mixing bowl and set aside.
Into a JMG jar , add oil , sugar , curds, orange juice, vanilla , orange zest and flax egg .
Blend everything together for 1 minute on a low speed.
Pour wet ingredients into sift dry ingredients ;
with cut and fold technique mix everything.
Now ,pour cake batter into a lined 8 “ inch cake tin.
Bake
Preheat oven to 180 deg Celsius ( 356 deg Fahrenheit ) and bake for 22 -25 minutes .
Skewer inserted at center should come out clean , remove cake tin from oven , cool on wire rack
Serving
Dust some powdered sugar, decorate with few slices of orange and serve
Recipe Card
Low fat Spiced Orange Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For Flax Egg
- 1 tablespoon Flax seed
- 3 tablespoon Water
To Make Cake
Wet Ingredients
- ¼ cup Oil
- ⅓ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Yogurt
- 2 tablespoon Orange Juice
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 teaspoon Orange Zest
Dry Ingredients
- 1 Cup All purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon cooking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon clove powder
- ¼ teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 pinch nutmeg powder
Instructions
Flax Egg
- In a JMG , blend 1 tablespoon of flaxseed into fine powder.
- Transfer into a bowl and add 3 tablespoon of water.
- Whisk well together and set aside for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes , it turns gelatinous and thick ; Flax egg is ready to use
To make Cake :
- Sift all purpose flour , baking powder , cooking soda, salt , warm spices together into a mixing bowl and set aside.
- Into a JMG jar , add oil , sugar , curds, orange juice, vanilla , orange zest and flax egg . Blend everything together for 1 minute on a low speed.
- Pour wet ingredients into sift dry ingredients ; with cut and fold technique mix everything.
- Pour cake batter into a lined 8 “ inch cake tin.
Bake
- Preheat oven to 180 deg Celsius ( 356 deg Fahrenheit ) and bake for 20 -22 minutes .
- Skewer inserted at centre should come out clean , remove cake tin from oven , cool on wire rack
- While serving , Dust some powdered sugar, decorate with few slices of orange and serve
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Can see my blog for nutritional facts of low fat food at grocery stores.