Best Orange Juice Cake Recipe (Orange Sponge Cake)
The best orange juice cake recipe! Easy to make, soft, fluffy, and moist. This orange sponge cake is made with fresh orange juice and zest for that citrusy flavour. You can serve for afternoon tea, dessert or as party cake. Let me show you how to make orange cake from scratch.
Prep Time25 minutes mins
Cook Time45 minutes mins
Total Time1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American, British, International, Portuguese
Keyword: best orange cake recipe, easy orange cake recipe, how to make orange cake, orange cake, orange cake recipe, orange juice cake, orange sponge cake
Servings: 12
Calories: 324kcal
Author: K's Cuisine
Oven
Mixing bowl
Mixer
Cake pan - 8 inch
Cake tester
- 150 g Butter
- 140 g Sugar granulated or Caster
- 3 small Eggs (150g)
- 1 Orange zest
- 3 tablespoons Orange juice
- 160 g Self raising flour
For the Buttercream
- 100 g Butter
- 200 g Icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- ½ teaspoon Orange zest
Preheat oven at a temperature of 170C.
In a mixing bowl add the butter and sugar and beat with electric mixer till it's fluffy and turns pale.Break the eggs into a bowl, add orange zest and juice then whisk. Add the eggs to the butter/sugar mixture very slowly while still mixing with electric mixer. This is to prevent the mixture from curdling.
Add the flour to the mixture by folding it in with spatula. Do not over mix the batter. Overmixing might make the cake dense.
Grease baking pan with butter and line with baking paper/parchment paper.
Pour the cake batter into the lined cake pan.
Bake cake at a temperature of 170C for 40 minutes or till cake is done and toothpick when inserted comes out clean.
- Sift flour before use to avoid lumpy batter and get a lighter cake.
- Bring eggs to room temperature before use.
- Cream the batter till it's pale in color and fluffy.
- Don’t overmix the cake batter. When you add flour, mix with a spatula and then low power setting on the mixer to mix for a minute. Overmixing results in dense cake.
- Bake the cake on a middle rack in the center of the oven. This helps with equal heat distribution and even baking.
- Cool the cakes on a cooling rack. Make sure cakes are cooled completely before storing or decorating.
- You can make 2 of these cakes and layer them to make celebration cake like birthday cake, baby shower cake, etc.
Calories: 324kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 80mg | Sodium: 163mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 28g | Vitamin A: 585IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg