Low Fat Orange Yogurt Cake

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.

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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

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