Receta Eggless Orange Poppy Seed Bundt Cake
In the early days of baking I used to think that orange flavored or any citrus flavored baked good won’t taste good. My taste buds had been accustomed to only two flavors, vanilla and chocolate. And rarely pineapple. We used to get these orange cream filled cookies back in India, and it was never my favorite. Strawberry flavor used to taste like some medicine to me. So I never ventured into baking recipes which called for orange juice or lemon juice. Then after a few years in the US, after tasting some citrus flavored muffins and cupcakes, slowly developed a liking to it.
The very first time I tried lemon zest and lemon juice in these vegan blueberry muffins, then the orange blueberry quick bread, then in these egg less vanilla cupcakes, then the vegan lemon poppy seed cupcakes and in quite a few recipes, all of which we started liking a lot. I personally preferred the orange-vanilla combination than the lemon flavor.
I saw this recipe for poppy seed bundt cake here. They had used orange juice for the glaze and orange zest in the cake recipe. I wanted to incorporate the juice in the cake itself to infuse a nice citrus flavor to the cake. Wanted to make it buttery too, so used butter instead of oil. Overall the cake has turned out to be a decadent and aromatic one. The combination of orange-vanilla-almond gives it such a wonderful flavor and fragrance to the cake and in the house while it was baking.
Eggless Orange Poppy Seed Bundt Cake
This rich, buttery cake with a hint of citrus flavor from the orange juice and zest, along with almond extract makes the house smell like a bakery. Taste is out of this world too!
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 and 1/2 cups white sugar
- 3/4 cup plain yogurt
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup orange juice, freshly squeezed
- 1 cup milk (I used 2%)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- orange zest from 2 oranges
Preheat oven at 350F/180C for 15 minutes. Grease a bundt pan with oil/butter and sprinkle some all-purpose flour to coat the insides of the pan. Mix together the orange juice and milk; set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar, until it’s light and fluffy. Add the yogurt and beat well. Add the extracts too and beat again. In another bowl mix together the flour, poppy seeds, baking powder, salt and orange zest; set aside. To the creamed butter mixture add the flour and juice mixture alternating between each and beating after each addition. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and tap it on the counter to break air bubbles, if any. Bake in the oven for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Once done remove the pan from the oven and place it on the cooling rack for at least 10-15 minutes. After about 15 minutes slowly invert the pan on a plate and remove the cake from the pan and transfer it back to the rack for it to cool completely.
I have used 3/4th cup of yogurt to replace 3 eggs in the original recipe. You can do a portion of silken tofu and yogurt for even better results. Since I didn’t have tofu, I used all yogurt. Preferably sour. Neither orange juice nor zest was used. 1 and 1/2 cups of milk was used. But since I wanted to infuse orange flavor in the cake I used part juice and part milk. Had 2 oranges at home. Used juice from it and milk for the remaining portion. 1.2.4