Orange Buttermilk Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

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.