I had been thinking of baking orange butter cake for a while. It’s hard to find orange butter cake made from pure orange juices and not flavouring.
This morning sunrise was beautiful, with orangey egg yolk. Sunrise reminds us every day is a fresh start, a new chapter in our life waiting to be written. I sent the sunrise photo to my condo WA group chat as morning greeting. My neighbour said “Nice. I steal this ya. So I don’t have to forward other people morning wish 😅”. That made me laugh. What a good start to the day and made me feel like baking.
The orangey egg yolk sunrise inspired me to bake Orange Butter Cake. Today, I attempted to bake it for the first time.
Ingredients:
- 250g of unsalted butter (I used salted butter as I like the cake to have a little salty taste and Anchor salted butter is sold at 250g block)
- 200g of castor sugar
- 5 eggs
- 230g of cake flour or all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Orange zest from 1 orange
- Orange juice from 1 orange
I always prefer cake using natural, pure ingredients and not any colouring or flavouring. For this orange butter cake, I used orange zest and juice from 1 orange.
Tip: For a stronger, tangy taste of oranges, use juicy and sweet oranges like Sunkist 3107 (Navel, medium) or zest from 2 oranges.
Instructions:
- Preheat over at 320°F / 160°C.
- Sift the flour and baking powder. Set aside
- In a mixing bowl, add in butter and sugar. Mix it on low speed until the sugar disappear. Then increase to medium speed and mix for 15 minutes, until the butter is white, light and fluffy.
- Add in eggs, one by one and mix until the yellow eggs disappear.
- Add in the sifted dry ingredients, spoon by spoon.
- Add orange zest and orange juice. Continue mixing for another 3-5 minutes.
- Pour the batter into a baking pan.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes. Test the cake using a cake tester.
- Cool the cake on a cooling rack for about 15 minutes.
I baked using 3 small trays (reduce baking time to 50 minutes) and gave 2 to my friends.
Love the orangey colour of these butter cake which is not from colouring.
My sister asked me “Your first attempt and you’re giving to your friend? What if not nice?”. She’s right but it can’t be that bad, I hope.
Orange is the color of joy and creativity. It is stimulating, vibrant, and flamboyant.
This orange butter cake goes very well with coffee and especially cup of tea. It’s soft, moist and refreshing.
Another addition to my butter cake collections. This is a good replacement for pure butter cake for those who don’t like the strong buttery taste.