Lean orange juice cupcake

Put the specified amount of vegetable oil, mineral water, granulated sugar in separate bowls. We sort out the raisins from accidental inclusions, rinse in warm water, dry them not with a towel and put them in a small bowl. Fill the raisins with cognac or brandy and leave for fifteen to twenty minutes. We also sort the walnuts and chop them coarsely with a knife. Wash oranges with hot water, wipe dry. We remove the zest from the surface, squeeze the juice from the pulp and measure the required amount.

Pour orange juice into mineral water, add orange peel and soda. We mix.

Pour granulated sugar into the vegetable oil and mix well with a whisk until whitening.

Pour orange juice with mineral water and soda into the resulting oil-sahaon mixture, beat with a whisk. It is desirable that the sugar crystals dissolve by this time.

We spread the soaked raisins along with brandy to the resulting liquid mixture. Pour in chopped walnuts.

Mix well.

Sift the flour together with cinnamon and ground cloves through a sieve and pour into the liquid mixture with nuts.

Whisk everything together until a homogeneous dough is obtained. The consistency is not too thick, flowing.

Preheat the oven to a temperature of 180 degrees. Grease the baking dish with a small amount of odorless vegetable oil. You can also line the pan with oiled parchment to make it easier to remove the finished cake. If the mold is silicone, then lubrication is not necessary. We spread the dough in the prepared form. We level its surface. We put the future cake in an already hot oven on the middle level and bake for fifty minutes to one hour. If the cake starts to brown too much, but is still soggy inside, cover it with foil. At the end of baking, check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick by sticking it into the center: if the stick comes out dry, then baking can be completed.

We take the finished cake out of the oven, let it cool right in the mold. Then remove it and transfer it to a serving platter.For decoration, you can sprinkle the surface with sifted icing sugar, use glaze or decorative dusting. Cut the cake into portions and serve.