Easy orange cake with orange icing. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Orange pound cake is buttery, moist and dense with flecks of orange zest throughout the cake. The icing is flavored with orange juice, making it smooth and bright.

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. You can cook Easy orange cake with orange icing using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Easy orange cake with orange icing

It's of Cake.
It's 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.
It's 2 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
It's 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.
Prepare 3/4 cup of caster sugar.
Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
You need 1/4 cup of orange juice.
Prepare 1 tbs of orange zest.
You need of Icing.
It's 1/3 cup of butter, softened.
Prepare 1 1/2 cups of confectioner's sugar, sifted.
You need 2 tbs of orange juice (or more, if you like).
It's 1/2 tsp of orange zest.

Combine cake mix, butter, eggs, and orange puree and combine with an electric mixer. This two layer orange creamsicle cake is bursting with citrus and vanilla flavors! Moist, fluffy vanilla layer cake is made with orange juice and orange zest then frosted in a orange vanilla buttercream frosting. Growing up I'll be honest I wasn't a fan of creamsicles.

Easy orange cake with orange icing instructions

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..

You know the frozen treat on a stick? In the bowl of your mixer add the dry ingredients, flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. In a separate bowl, add the eggs, orange juice concentrate, milk, orange extract and zest. With the mixer on low speed, add the slices of butter a few pieces at a time to the dry ingredients. The benefit of using your mixer is that this orange pound cake recipe only uses one bowl!