Orange Buttermilk Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
2 cups flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
Zest of 1 orange (1 T.)
½ tsp vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
¼ cup butter, melted and cooled
Frosting:
4 oz. cream cheese, softened
4 T butter, softened
2 T orange marmalade
½ tsp orange extract
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Mix together
sugar and eggs until combined. Add orange zest, vanilla
extract and buttermilk. Mix until
combined. Add cooled melted butter. Add flour, baking powder
and salt until just combined. Don’t
over mix.
2. Line bottom of 9x2 round baking pan
with parchment paper or foil and butter top of lining
and pan sides. Pour batter into pan, smooth
with rubber spatula, and bake for 30 minutes or
until toothpick in center comes out
clean. Allow cake to cool in pan for 30 minutes before
removing from pan. Allow to cool completely
on wire rack.
3.
For frosting: combine first 6 ingredients and beat until smooth. Add
powdered sugar and
beat until combined and smooth.
4. Cut cake in half, lengthwise. Spread
bottom half with ¼ of cream cheese frosting. Place the
top half of the cake on the bottom
half. Frost cake with remaining cream cheese frosting.
YUM!!! This was my first time zesting and I had no idea how much flavor comes from the zest. So awesome. Most of the time when I make cakes the frosting is always too sweet and too much. But this frosting was not. I would say put half of the frosting in the middle and the rest on top of the cake. It was just perfectly sweet.
