Easy orange cake with orange icing. This soft, moist, easy orange cake recipe from scratch is loaded with with cream cheese frosting, mandarin oranges, orange marmalade and lots of fresh orange zest. In my opinion, Summer is the BEST time to make citrus cakes like this easy mandarin orange cake. The aroma and flavors of oranges that fill the air while this cake is baking is intoxicating!
Variations like orange cream cheese frosting also included.
Summer is in full force and that calls for this HOMEMADE orange frosting from scratch, also known as orange CREAMSICLE frosting.
Easy orange cake with orange icing.
You can have Easy orange cake with orange icing using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Easy orange cake with orange icing
- It's of Cake.
- You need 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.
- You need 2 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 3/8 tsp of salt (just under a 1/2 tsp).
- You need 1/2 cup of (also known as 1 stick or 125g) butter, softened.
- You need 3/4 cup of caster sugar.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of orange juice.
- Prepare 1 tbs of orange zest.
- Prepare of Icing.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of butter, softened.
- You need 1 1/2 cups of confectioner's sugar, sifted.
- Prepare 2 tbs of orange juice (or more, if you like).
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of orange zest.
For this super easy orange cake, just put all the ingredients in the blender and blend them away, that's how easy this recipe is. A very fast recipe to prepare with no If your orange has thick skin with lots of the white part it's better to peel it and make the recipe without the skin. Related Reading: Easy Homemade Almond Buttercream Frosting Recipe. Easy and Fresh Orange Buttercream Frosting Recipe.
Easy orange cake with orange icing step by step
- Preheat oven to 180C. Grease either a 20x10cm loaf pan or a 20 cm round tin and set aside (note: I've only made this in a loaf pan)..
- Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together thoroughly, then sift into a large mixing bowl..
- Add all the other ingredients in with the sifted flour and stir until smooth..
- Pour into the loaf pan and bake between 30 and 40 minutes (my oven is small so a tester knife came out clean after about 32 minutes or so)..
- Put on a wire rack to cool..
- Once the cake is cool, mix together the icing ingredients and, well, ice the cake, of course..
If you want a printable version of the recipe, just scroll farther down in the post until you see the heading for the printable recipe. Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting. Carrot cake is one of the most delicious cakes ever. This carrot cake with orange cream cheese frosting is just that, delish! It's an extremely moist carrot cake.