Orange upside down cake (Eggless)

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March 28, 2016 by bhumi

Happy Holi!!!

Hey everyone…How was your weekend?? Mine was super awesome. Me & my husband went to our home town to celebrate Holi for 4 days. For those who are unaware of “Holi” its a festival of colors & beginning of spring in India specially in North India. Children & adults play with powdered colors (called gulal) & enjoy delicacies & drinks. So with this colorful festival in mind, today i will share Orange upside down cake recipe with you all.

I saw this recipe in Ronitpenso’s blog & from that time only I decided to try it on Holi. Thank you so much Ronit for sharing such a wonderful recipe. However I made few changes in the original recipe as this recipe is vegetarian.

Baking time : 25 min

Preparation time : 20 min

Serving : 2-3

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour – 2 cups
• Unsalted butter – 100 gms
• Confectionery sugar – 1 1/2 cup
• Orange slices – 3 (cut into round shaped)
• Orange pieces- 1 cup
• Orange zest – 2 to 3 tsp
• Vanilla essence / extract- 3 to 4 drops
• Milk – 1/2 cup
• Yogurt – 2tsp
•  Almonds – 1 cup (Soaked & peeled)
• Baking powder – 1/2 tsp
• Baking soda – 1/2 tsp (I used half ENO sachet)
• Salt – a pinch
• Cherry – 2 to 3 pieces (Deseeded)

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius for 10 minutes.
   

   Ingredients

2. In a mixing bowl add butter, sugar, salt, vanilla extract & yogurt. Mix well till the mixture is smooth.
   

   Mix till it smooth

3. Slowly add the flour batch wise to wet mixture & fold to form a smooth mixture.
4. Add Orange zest ,orange pieces & half of soaked almonds to the batter.
   

   Add flour, oranges, almonds

5. Add milk to it to make it soft. Whisk the batter for 3-4 minutes if using an electric beater or for 7-8 minutes if using hands. Add baking powder & baking soda.
6. Grease the cake tin with butter. Over it sprinkle some sugar around half cup.
   

   Greased tin with sugar

7. Place round shaped Orange slices in tin (over sugar) & adjust small sized Cherry in center of Orange slice. Spread almonds all over the tin.
   

   Arranging fruits & almonds

8. Gently pour the batter over almonds without disturbing the lower layers.
   

   Gently pour the batter

9. Place the tin in a preheated oven and bake the cake at 180 degrees Celsius for 25minutes. Check the cake with toothpick, it should come out clean and dry when inserted in the cake.
10. Allow the cake to cool down on wire mesh. Once completely cool, place a plate over the tin & turn it upside down. Gently remove the tin & Voilaaa!!!! Cake is ready to serve…

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Bhumi

Signing off…..