ORANGE AND DRIED BERRY CUPCAKES (EGGLESS)

ORANGE AND DRIED BERRY CUPCAKES (EGGLESS)

EDITED: This recipe was published in the "Here's The Scoop" newspaper of Airdrie, Alberta on 22nd of June 2017/

EDITED: This recipe was featured at "Cook blog share" blog hop on 23rd may 2017, check here

I love oranges and love using them in my recipes whenever possible. When they are in season, I make these fresh orange juice cupcakes. Fresh juice gives nice flavor and color to these cupcakes.

I make different types of cupcakes so that my grandchildren get to eat fresh and healthy homemade snack during lunch at school. The only problem when I make cupcakes for school is that I can not add any nuts in them because many kids at school are allergic to nuts. I think it is a common problem here in North America. Every year we get instructions from school authorities that even if your children are not allergic to nuts, they should not consume them in the morning before coming to school because it could be dangerous to nut allergic kids as they shake hands and share books etc in school.

After reading a lot of health benefits of avocado oil, I am in love with this oil. Before I was using it only in salads but now I have started using in all baked cakes and savory baked items as well. I bake eggless cakes or cupcakes where butter is already replaced by oil of any kind in many recipes so it is a good idea to use avocado oil instead of sunflower or any other oil.

These are tried and tested cupcakes, one of my friends gave me this recipe a long time ago. I used all-purpose flour before but these days I prefer using brown flour. In these cupcakes, I have used all healthy ingredients like brown flour, avocado oil, greek yogurt, fresh orange juice and brown sugar.

RECIPE
INGREDIENTS

• 150 grams brown bread flour/whole wheat flour
  
• 100 ml avocado oil or sunflower oil ( any oil of your choice)
  
• 100 grams brown sugar or castor sugar
  
• 200 ml fresh orange juice
• 1/4 cup dried berries
  
• 50 ml yogurt (half cup)
  
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
  
• 1 tsp baking powder
  

METHOD



• Sieve brown flour and baking powder, baking soda in a bowl
• Add sugar and mix well
• Beat the yogurt with egg mixer and add orange juice and oil in a bowl
• Slowly add the wet mixture to a dry mixture and continuously mix in a hand or stand mixture for around 10 minutes, and fold in the dried berries.
• Heat the oven to 180 degrees C or 275 degrees F and grease the muffin tray
• Pour the mixture up to 2/3 level in the cupcake molds
• Bake for 20-25 minutes till the toothpick comes out clean
• Serve hot or at room temperature

15-20 cupcakes can be made depending on the size you make

I am sending this recipe as my blog post entry to Matless Monday and Sweet Inspiration blog party and with Cook Blog share and Hearth and Soul blog hop  and with I am pinnable and bake of the week, and with Simple and in Season and with cook once eat twice