This moist but fluffy vegan orange cake tastes just like a creamsicle and is a beautiful orange hue!

When I created my bakery-style vegan white cake recipe, I long knew that I wanted to use it as a canvas for other cake flavors. (Once I’ve created enough variety I am planning to start selling these local to the Baltimore area!).
It turns out that making an orange flavored cake is extremely easy. Because oranges are both super fibrous and super watery, adding a whole orange to a sponge cake is not necessarily a great idea.
Orange extract (available in most grocery stores) does the trick, along with fresh orange zest added to the batter and a (small!) amount of orange juice added to the wet ingredients.

Of course, that’s not enough to produce the beautiful color you see in the pictured cake; I used natural orange food coloring to dye this creamsicle-inspired beauty.
Continue reading Dreamy Orange Creamsicle Cake at Yup, It’s Vegan! for the full recipe.

This moist but fluffy vegan orange cake tastes just like a creamsicle and is a beautiful orange hue!

When I created my bakery-style vegan white cake recipe, I long knew that I wanted to use it as a canvas for other cake flavors. (Once I’ve created enough variety I am planning to start selling these local to the Baltimore area!).

It turns out that making an orange flavored cake is extremely easy. Because oranges are both super fibrous and super watery, adding a whole orange to a sponge cake is not necessarily a great idea.

Orange extract (available in most grocery stores) does the trick, along with fresh orange zest added to the batter and a (small!) amount of orange juice added to the wet ingredients.

Of course, that’s not enough to produce the beautiful color you see in the pictured cake; I used natural orange food coloring to dye this creamsicle-inspired beauty.

Continue reading Dreamy Orange Creamsicle Cake at Yup, It’s Vegan! for the full recipe.