Best Orange Juice Cake Recipe (Orange Sponge Cake)

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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

Cook Time45

Total Time1 10

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:

Calories: 324kcal

Author: K's Cuisine

Equipment

Oven
Mixing bowl
Mixer
Cake pan - 8 inch
Cake tester

Ingredients

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

Instructions

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.

To Make the Buttercream

For the buttercream, Here's how to make it:
Using a mixer, cream the butter for 2 minutes.
Add in the icing sugar, and mix till well combined.
Add in orange zest and mix for another 5 minutes or till light and fluffy.
If too thick, you can add some orange juice or milk, and if too thin, add more icing sugar to thicken it.

Notes

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.

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