This orange cake recipe is incredibly easy to make and comprises fluffy cake bursting with orange flavor. Whole oranges get blended into the batter, including the skin, which in combination impart a wonderful orange fragrance, sweetness, and tanginess. This orange cake recipe is wonderful to serve as a dessert during citrus season when oranges are at their best.
To make the cake, you first blend orange pieces with milk and oil until combined. Then, eggs and sugar get mixed in followed by flour and baking powder until combined. Finally, the batter gets poured into a round cake pan before being baked in the oven. Dusting the cake with powdered sugar and topping it with orange slices elevates its appearance, making it a beautiful cake to serve despite its simplicity.
What is Orange Cake?
This orange cake is a round cake that has a fluffy crumb and the robust taste of oranges. Commonly, citrus cakes include both citrus juice and zest, but this cake is a little different. Rather than zesting and juicing the oranges, the oranges are cut into pieces and blended into the batter. This ensures that the cake has all of the great flavour elements of oranges including their sourness, sweetness, and fragrance.
Pro Tips
- Choose fresh unblemished oranges, and preferably ones that are organic, since you will be using whole oranges in this recipe.
- If you don’t have a handheld immersion blender to blend the oranges with the milk and oil, you could blend them in an upright blender.
- To test when your cake is finished baking, you can insert a skewer into its center to see if the crumbs are still moist. If the crumbs seem wet and sticky, the cake will need to continue baking.
- To make the orange cake dairy-free, you could replace the milk with plant-based milk such as almond milk, cashew milk, or soy milk.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Types of Oranges Should Be Used in Orange Cake?
You can use whatever type of orange you enjoy in your orange cake, such as cara cara or naval oranges. Blood oranges would be delicious as well, although they are often not as easy to find.
What to Serve With Orange Cake?
This orange cake could be served with whipped cream or ice cream for added richness. However, you could also garnish the cake with an icing sugar glaze and candied orange peel if desired.
Is Orange Cake Dairy-Free?
No, this orange cake isn’t dairy-free as it uses milk. However, if you would like to make it dairy-free, you could replace the milk with almond milk, soy milk, or cashew milk, or any other plant-based milk you prefer.
How to Store Orange Cake
Due to the addition of whole oranges, milk, and oil, this cake will stay fresh for several days. If you are storing it at room temperature, you can cover it with plastic wrap or under a cake dome, and it should stay fresh for up to 3 to 4 days. However, alternatively, you can store it in the fridge where it should stay fresh for longer.
Ingredients
How to Make Blended Orange Cake
Place the oranges in a bowl with the milk and oil. Blend the mixture until smooth.
Cut the oranges into small pieces.
Mix the flour mixture into the wet mixture until combined. Pour it into a round parchment-lined cake pan and bake it in a 347 F (175 C) oven for 35 minutes.
Place the oranges in a bowl with the milk and oil. Blend the mixture until smooth.
Serve the cake garnished with powdered sugar.
Beat the eggs and sugar into the batter until combined. Sift the flour and baking soda into the batter.
Mix the flour mixture into the wet mixture until combined. Pour it into a round parchment-lined cake pan and bake it in a 347 F (175 C) oven for 35 minutes.
Serve the cake garnished with powdered sugar.
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