Eggless Orange chocolate cupcakes recipe – It is very spongy, moist and soft textured cupcake with awesome combination of orange and chocolate flavors.
This recipe is similar to my chocolate cupcakes recipe. Vinegar is used to make it spongy, light and soft. This is also Vegan orange chocolate cupcake recipe except the frosting.
I have made orange flavored frosting and it makes cupcakes more orangey. I just love this orange and chocolate flavor combination.
I am very obsessed with eggless baking. In the result of that you will find a huge collection of eggless recipes on the blog. I will be posting more eggless recipes here as I do bake a lot.
If you are baker then you know that whenever you bake something with orange, the whole house is filled with nice aroma. I have orange cake recipe on the blog and orange chocolate chip muffins recipe I have just shared.
I have made only 6 cupcakes but recipe below is for 12 cupcakes.
Check out other eggless cupcakes recipes
Red velvet cupcakes // Butterscotch cupcakes // Black bottom cupcakes // Lemon cupcakes
How to make eggless orange chocolate cupcakes recipe:
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1) Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for at least 10 minutes. Line the muffin tray with muffin liners or lightly spray or butter the pan.
2) Take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and granulated sugar) in a bowl.
3) Whisk it well till it gets incorporated or you can sift it.
4) In another bowl take all wet ingredients (oil, water, orange juice, vinegar, vanilla extract) along with orange zest.
5) Whisk them well till mixed properly.
6) Add wet mixture to dry.
7) Mix it well so there will be no lumps. Do not over mix it.
8) Divide the batter into prepared cupcake pan. Lightly tap it on counter top to remove any air bubbles.
9) Bake into pre-heated oven for 20-22 minutes or till toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
10) Let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes then remove it to wire rack and let it cool completely.
11) Now to make frosting, take soften butter and sugar in a bowl.
12) Whisk it till sugar get incorporated and it becomes light and fluffy. (I have used fork because I have small quantity here, if you are making full batch then use wire whisk.)
13) Then add orange zest and orange juice.
14) Again keep whisking till you get smooth, fluffy and light and spreading consistency.
15) Once cupcakes are cooled completely, frost them with icing. You can pipe it or just spread it with butter knife just like I did.
Serving suggestion: Enjoy this as a dessert. Make a big batch of it for parties or picnic.
Eggless orange chocolate cupcakes recipe (Vegan cupcakes)
Ingredients (1 cup = 240 ml)
For cupcakes:
- 1 ½ cups All purpose flour (Maida)
- 6 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup White granulated sugar
- ½ cup Orange juice
- Orange zest from 1 orange
- ½ cup Water
- ¼ cup Oil use any flavorless oil like canola, corn, vegetable, safflower oil
- 1 tablespoon White distilled vinegar
- 1 ½ teaspoons Pure vanilla extract
For Frosting:
- ¼ cup Unsalted butter soften to room temperature, ½ stick or 2 oz or 57 grams
- 1 cup Powdered sugar (Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar)
- Orange zest from 1 orange
- 2 teaspoon Orange juice or more or less
Instructions
Making eggless orange chocolate cupcakes recipe:
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C for at least 10 minutes.
- Line the muffin tray with muffin liners or lightly spray or butter the pan.
- Take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt and granulated sugar) in a bowl.
- Whisk it well till it gets incorporated or you can sift it.
- In another bowl take all wet ingredients (oil, water, orange juice, vinegar, vanilla extract) along with orange zest.
- Beat them well till mixed properly.
- Add wet mixture to dry.
- Mix it well so there will be no lumps. Do not over mix it.
- Divide the batter into prepared cupcake pan.
- Bake into pre-heated oven for 20-22 minutes or till toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes then remove it to wire rack and let it cool completely.
Making frosting:
- Take soften butter and sugar in a bowl.
- beat it till sugar get incorporated and it becomes light and fluffy.
- Then add orange zest and orange juice.
- Again keep whisking till you get smooth, fluffy and light and spreading consistency.
- Once cupcakes are cooled completely, frost them with icing.
- You can pipe it or just spread it with butter knife
Hi Kanan, this is a fantastic recipe. I have made these cupcakes twice and they’ve turned out perfect! I have a thing for anything with some orange flavor so this one has easily become one of my favorites. I haven’t really done much baking before and this recipe always gives me that lil boost to try out more. I also did try the lemon cupcake recipe from your list and we enjoyed that too. Thank you for sharing these amazing recipes! I am always on a lookout for more recipes from you…
Thank you Dhara for the review.
Glad to know that cupcakes came out good and everyone enjoyed.
Will be sharing more recipes
Hello! The recipe sounds super yummy. I am allergic to chocolate, and was wondering if I replaced the chocolate with All Purpose Flour, will I get a good-enough orange cake?
No, that is not the good idea.
Please go for this orange cake recipe.
Thank you so much for these recipes, my partner is allergic to eggs and finding great recipes has been a challenge but thanks to you I get to see a smile on his face your recipes are delicious and create amazing results.
Thank you Jem. Good to hear that recipes are helpful to you.
Very nice recipe, could u pls tell me that can we use fresh cottage cheese mashed in place of cream cheese.
There is no cream cheese used in this recipe. But if you are talking about substituting the cream cheese in any frosting recipe then NO mashed cottage cheese will not work.
Nice recipe of egg less orange choc cup cake,oranges are in season, i will try soon.
Visiting first time to your blog.
Hope you like it. Welcome to the blog
I tried these but they were a little bitter in taste, i used baking powder instead of baking soda. Also i wanted to make sugarfree cupcakes so how can i alter the recipe …?
Baking is all about the precision. You cannot substitute baking soda and baking powder.
The bitter taste is possible that it comes from the orange zest. If you have zest the white part of the peel then it is bitter. Always grate only the surface or orange part only (not the while peel).
I have never baked sugar free recipes, so cannot comment
Hey… thanks for the recipe :). Can I use lemon juice or yogurt instead of vinegar? (I have all the ingredients except vinegar at home.)
You can use freshly squeezed lemon juice instead of vinegar. I would not recommend yogurt.
I’m double checking the quantity of cocoa powder is it really 6 tablespoons??? It seemed a lot so wanted to double check with you before I made these
Yes, I have checked with my notes. It is 6 tablespoons of cocoa powder for 12 cupcakes. In step by step pics it looks I have added less because I have made only 6.