Winter is the time to enjoy citrus fruits. Oranges ripen starting in November (depending on the kind of orange) through May. Lots of us enjoy orange juice for taste and for health benefits with its vitamin C. Today let’s discuss a sweet treat of orange cake made with orange juice and zest. With one large orange and one medium orange, you can have the zest and juice to add lots of delicate flavor to a white cake and butter cream icing. The cake is really wonderful plain too if you want cut some calories. If you ice the cake, I’d suggest you add some orange segments as decorations. Even orange slices look great.
Orange Cake
Makes two 8 inch layers of cake. Use organic when available.
Orange Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs beaten
- zest from one large orange
Icing
- 1 stick of butter room temperature (1/2 cup or 4 oz)
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- juice from medium orange
- zest from medium orange
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
- Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans
- In small bowl combine milk, 1/2 cup orange juice, oil, beaten eggs, and orange zest. Set aside
- In large bowl sift flour, salt and baking powder
- Mix in sugar
- Make a well in the center and pour in the milk mixture
- Stir until thoroughly combined
- Pour batter into the 2 prepared pans
- Bake for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean
- Remove cake from oven and cool
Icing
- If frosting cake, cream butter until smooth
- Gradually beat in confectioner's sugar
- Beat until light and fluffy
- Add orange juice a little at a time until you reach spreading consistency
- Stir in vanilla extract and orange zest
- Spread icing on cake
- Optional Place iced cake in refrigerator and serve later cold
Enjoy!
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Adding this to the list of your great recipes. Our orange tree is laden this year so will try this soon.
I think you’ll like it!
…a Florida treat!
Orange cake is actually my favorite kind of cake. This looks delicious! My youngest son used to make me orange cake for my birthday. Maybe if I gave him this recipe, he would do it again! I am on a no-sugar diet, but I splurge every once in a while.
a little splurge helps keep your sanity
It looks so good. I can’t wait to try.
Thanks Rebecca!
Thanks for sharing at #aclwcc. This looks delicious! I have socialized and will try this during the spring/summer. This is perfect for family gatherings.
hope you love it – thanks for sharing!
That sounds delicious! My husband’s grandparents used to send us large bags of oranges from Florida each winter and I just loved how juicy and tasty they were! Pinned.
thanks for the pin!
This sounds delicious!
I loved your idea to incorporate the orange zest into this cake, and the orange slices are the perfect garnish for your beautiful scratch made cake!
I always crave citrus this time of the year! Your cake looks so enticing.
This sounds just divine! That might be our Easter dessert!
it would be perfect!
What a beautiful cake!! I love all things orange! It sounds delicious!
I agree – oranges are fabulous!
Looks delish!
Yum! Yum! This looks so good! I could just fancy eating a slice now! x
I’m pinning this for sure. I don’t think I’ve tried an orange cake before, it looks delicious.
I think you’ll like it – have a great day!
Anything and everything citrus! Yum!
It does sound yummy. I am wondering how much 1 stick of butter is? Thanks for the recipe, stay safe and enjoy your week. And thanks for visiting my blog this week.
I’m sorry about the measurement – I just added it to the recipe. 1 stick of butter is 1/2 cup or 4 oz.
I think this is a wonderful way to get your vitamin C. 🙂 Thank you for sharing on the Classy Flamingos blog party.
Another fab recipe Carol. I have pinned and will be giving this one a try.
Have a nice weekend. x
thanks Jayne – have a great weekend!
Congrats on the Superbowl win. We love the Tampa area. Pinned . Happy Valentine’s Day.
thanks Michele – Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hello, this is one of my favorites for Encouraging Hearts and Home, this week! I hope you stop by and say hello, this post has been pinned! Thank you for being a part of Encouraging Hearts and Home, we appreciate all that you share. Have a great week ahead!
thanks for the kind words and pin – have a great week!
I can feel the weight gain already just looking at it. Yum!