Vegan Orange Cupcakes With Chocolate Ganache Frosting
Light and fluffy eggless orange cupcakes topped with silky smooth dark chocolate ganache. These vegan orange cupcakes are super easy to make that even a novice can easily bake and devour it. It's all made from scratch, so soft, tender and insanely delicious.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- whisk
- 240 ml measuing cups and spoons set
- sauce pan
- cupcake moulds
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour (128 grams)
- 1 teaapoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon rock salt
- ¾ cup fresh orange juice (180 ml)
- ½ cup sugar (100 grams)
- ¼ cup oil (60 ml)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence (2.5 ml)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice (15 ml)
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 1 cup chocolate ganache Use 1 cup chocolate and ½ cup cream for this recipe (recipe link in notes)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven @180° C for 10 minutes with both rods on.
- Line cupcake moulds or tray with liners. If you don't have liners simply grease them with oil or butter.
- In a mixing bowl add in the orange juice, sugar, oil, essence, lemon juice, orange zest. Mix well to combine and allow sugar to dissolve.
- Sieve in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Gently fold the wet ingredients and dry ingredients into a smooth and lumpsfree batter.
- Scoop the batter onto the lined cupcake moulds till ¾th of the cavity.
- Bake the cupcakes at preheated oven @180° C for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven. Transfer the cupcakes onto a cooling rack and allow to cool down completely.
- Take the chilled chocolate ganache and whisk it with spoon or spatula. You can also use wired hand whisk.
- Place your desired noozle onto the piping bag.
- Put the ganache onto the piping bag. Gather the mouth of the piping bag and twist it. Pipe as desired.
- I have used N1 star nozzle and piped beautiful rosette.
Video
Notes
- 2 ingredient ganache recipe 👉 Chocolate Ganache
- Do not forget to preheat the oven for 10 minutes. Always bake at a preheated oven.
- You can also use whole wheat flour instead of plain flour.
- If you are not going for vegan baking you can use butter instead of oil or use 50-50 ratio of both.
- To make with egg, you can use one large egg or 2 for small eggs.
- Baking time for differ as each oven reacts differently. Try checking from 18 minutes onwards.
- You can also orange essence or orange emulsion. Emulsion will give flavor as well as colour to your cupcakes.
- Highly recommend to use fresh orange juice. If using store bought juice try using good brand orange juice.