Amazing Orange Cake

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I love a good loaf cake and my amazing orange cake is no exception! What a welcome burst of orange-flavored sunshine this was in the middle of a seriously cold winter here. Sometimes you just have to bake up something that cheers you up with the mere taste of it – and that’s what this orange bread did. 

Love loaf style cakes / breads? Try my Cranberry Orange Bread or Strawberry Bread too!

Table of Contents

1. Orange Cake
2. Ingredients
3. How to Make Orange Cake
4. Choosing the best oranges for your orange cake
5. Tips & Tricks
6. Amazing Orange Cake Recipe

Orange Cake

Oranges are cheap, cheerful, and plentiful year-round, which is exactly why we should be cooking and baking with them. Combined with my orange icing glaze (linked to in the recipe card below), this makes an amazing dessert or even a breakfast with a nice cup of coffee!

They key to this recipe is to try and use only the very best quality ingredients that you can find. When you have such a simple recipe, the basic ingredients really stand out, so make sure you find the highest quality possible.

Ingredients

To make this delicious loaf cake, you’ll need the following ingredients. Make sure to check the recipe card below for exact measurements and full instructions.

• butter
• granulated sugar
• large eggs
• orange zest
• orange juice
• all-purpose flour
• baking powder
• salt
• orange icing glaze
  

How to Make Orange Cake

Preheat your oven to 350 °F, grease a standard loaf pan, and set aside. Beat together the butter and sugar until creamy and smooth then add in the eggs, one at a time until fully combined. Mix in the orange zest and juice until combined.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add into the butter mixture and stir until mixed in well.

Spoon into the loaf pan, smoothing out the top. Bake until a cake tester or toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Glaze with my Orange Icing Glaze when fully cooled.

Choosing the best oranges for your orange cake

I have good luck usually with Sunkist when I can find them, it seems that there is a better quality to them when they have that label. Cara Cara oranges are also a good bet for juice and flavour, they are slightly pink inside as well.

When it comes down to picking a good orange to use, try to find which ones are really thick-skinned and avoid them at all costs – those are always terrible inside. If you can, try to find Florida-grown oranges, those are usually the best but when everything is off-season you’re going to have to look extra hard for good oranges.

Tips & Tricks

• Find oranges with the brightest, best color on the outside. Smell the oranges when you are picking them. Sometimes you can get a really good sense of the orange inside when it smells very fragrant. That also means that the oils in the peel are strong, which means you will get a strong flavor when you zest it.
• Pick the freshest, best oranges that you can find for this cake.
• Look for oranges that have healthy peels on the outside, remember that you are going to zest the peel so look for skin that is unblemished.
• This loaf cake will stay in a container for 3 days at room temperature, refrigerating it will make it hard. I am sure your family will eat it up within those 3 days.
• Make sure to use my Orange Icing Glaze on this orange loaf cake, it is the best! If you want to mix and match maybe try out my Lemon Icing Glaze for a crazy good citrus loaf cake!
  

Happy baking everyone!

Love,

Karlynn

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