Orange Creamsicle Cake

Orange Creamsicle Cake

• Servings: 10-12
• Time: 1hr 20mins
• Difficulty: moderate
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Ingredients:

For the Cake

• 10 ounces all-purpose flour (approx. 2 1/4 cups)
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup melted butter, cooled
• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon orange extract
• 1/2 cup whole buttermilk
• 1/4 cup frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed

Vanilla Glaze:

• 1/2 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon melted  butter
• 1-1/2 teaspoons milk

Orange Glaze:

• 1/2 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
• 1 teaspoon orange extract
• 1 teaspoon melted  butter
• 1-1/2 teaspoons milk
• 1 drop red food coloring
• 2 drops yellow food coloring

Other: 

• 12 Candied Orange Jelly Slices (for garnish; optional)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
2. Generously grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan, shaking off excess flour.If you are using a decorative pan, make sure you grease well into the cracks with a pastry brush.
3. Place the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into an electric mixer bowl and give it a stir.
4. Add the cooled butter, eggs, extracts, buttermilk, and thawed orange juice concentrate.
5. Beat in the mixer for a few minutes, then pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
6. Bake in the  preheated oven for 50-60 minutes until a test toothpick doesn’t come out with wet batter (this was 55 minutes for me).
7. Cool cake ten minutes in pan before turning out of pan and finishing cooling on a wire rack.
8. Place cooled cake on a cake plate and place parchment paper strips (wax paper or foil with also do) under cake on all sides to form a collar.
9. Whisk up the glazes in two separate bowls, adding a few more drops of milk if needed until it comes to a drizzling consistency.
10. Drizzle cake with glazes, then remove paper collars.
11. Garnish cake with orange slices around the sides (I used a bit of thick icing to get them to stick there- whip that up with some powdered sugar and a little milk).