Orange Cake With Creamy Orange Frosting
Recipe: #1760
October 30, 2011
Categories: Orange, Baby Shower, Birthday Mothers Day, Oven Bake, more
"This is a recipe I found in an old tatered recipbook my mother had stashed away. It is one of my favourite cakes. It is a perfect cake for birthday parties."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (150.3 g)
- Calories 570.7
- Total Fat - 16.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.6 g
- Cholesterol - 26.5 mg
- Sodium - 150.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 101.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1 g
- Sugars - 79.4 g
- Protein - 3.8 g
- Calcium - 34.2 mg
- Iron - 0.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 6.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
For Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2
Grease a 9” square cake pan, line bottom with parchment paper.
Step 3
Cream butter, gradually beat in sugar.
Step 4
Add egg yolks and beat until thick and lemon coloured.
Step 5
Add grated orange rind.
Step 6
Blend together flour, baking soda and salt.
Step 7
Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with orange juice and water. Combine after each addition.
Step 8
Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Carefully fold into cake batter.
Step 9
Pour into prepared pan.
Step 10
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
Step 11
Let cool completely before frosting.
Step 12
For Frosting: Cream butter and add 1/2 cup icing sugar and salt and blend until smooth.
Step 13
Add egg yolk, orange rind and orange juice and beat well.
Step 14
Gradually beat in about 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, just enough to make of spreading consistency.
Step 15
Beat until creamy.
Step 16
Frost cake.
Tips
No special items needed.