Egg-Free Orange Juice Lenten Cake

Delicious, easy and simple, without eggs or milk — for the whole family! Lenten cake made with orange juice without eggs turns out to be as light and crumbly as rich pastries. Semolina gives the dough porosity, but the semolina itself is not noticeable in the finished cake. It is easy to prepare, and the result will please everyone.
cook time: 1h 20 min
Ethan Rowley
Egg-Free Orange Juice Lenten Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

318
Calories
10g
Fat
48g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 120 g
Orange zest 1 tbsp
Orange juice 200 ml
Wheat flour 350 g
White wine vinegar 1 tbsp
Vegetable oil 80 ml
Baking powder 1 tbsp
Semolina 1 tbsp
Vanilla sugar 1 tsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make a cake with orange juice? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Use premium flour. You can squeeze orange juice from one orange and, if the required amount is not enough, add juice from the box to the required volume. Or use another orange.

Step 2

Step 2
Wash the orange thoroughly with a brush to remove dirt from the peel. Remove the zest from one orange and grate it on a fine grater. At the same time, try not to touch the white part of the peel, otherwise the dough and the finished cake will be very bitter.

Step 3

Step 3
Sift the flour. Add semolina, baking powder (I used some of the baking powder with ground saffron), sugar and vanilla sugar into the flour. Mix all dry ingredients with a spoon.

Step 4

Step 4
Separately, in a deep bowl, mix orange juice, vegetable oil and wine vinegar. Stir. You can use both sunflower and olive oil. But it is worth considering that baked goods with orange zest themselves have a slight bitterness. And olive oil can enhance this bitterness even more. Therefore, I usually do not add olive oil to citrus baked goods and use refined, odorless sunflower oil.

Step 5

Step 5
Add the flour mixture into the orange juice. Mix everything until smooth.

Step 6

Step 6
You should get a viscous, aromatic dough. The zest may make the dough slightly bitter, but this bitterness will go away as it bakes. ! If the dough turns out so viscous and dense that it is difficult to turn the spoon, then you need to add 1 tbsp. l. butter and juice and mix again. And keep adding until the dough becomes more pliable.

Step 7

Step 7
Transfer the dough into a greased cake pan and smooth it out. If the mold is silicone, then there is no need to cover it with anything. But it is better to cover the remaining forms with parchment and coat them with vegetable oil. Place the cake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 40-50 minutes.

Step 8

Step 8
Remove the finished cake from the oven, cool slightly and remove from the pan. Cut into pieces and serve. The next day the cake tastes even better. Bon appetit!

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