Last week I made Lemon Bread, this week is Orange Pound Cake. I’m sucker for pound cake anyways but wanted to try adding a little flavor to one. This was a hit to say the least and gone in about 30 seconds. Would have been sooner but they had to pause and drink some milk with it.
p.s. I would love to see you join the new foodie community. I already gave away two fabulous prizes to active members and that’s only the beginning;)
INGREDIENTS
- 1 stick butter (1/2cup), Unsalted & room temp
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp orange juice (1/4cup if freshly squeezed)
- 1/4 cup milk (you can use 2% if you want)
- 1/2 tsp grated orange rind
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325′ and have your 9×5 loaf pan buttered and ready to go.
Cream butter & sugar, then add eggs and mix well; set aside. In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. In a measuring cup combine orange juice, milk and orange zest and start adding butter mixture alternating with the flour mixture until light & creamy.
Spoon (pour) into pan and bake for 45min or until center comes out clean with toothpick. Cool in pan and then remove from pan and drizzle with glaze.
OPTIONAL GLAZE
- 2tbsp orange juice
- 1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar
Mix together and drizzle on cake while still warm.
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mm yeh it was nice
took 2 hours in my shitty oven
wasnt that orangey but still really yummy
This cake is delicious! It’s become one of our very favorites.
Marie, I had the same problem. After googling for a solution, I reduced the baking powder from 1 teaspoon to 1/4 teaspoon, and have had perfect results ever since.
Hi I been wanting to try an orange cake for a while so I tried your reciepe today. The cake tastes really good but for some reason it did not rise at all. I dont have a loaf pan so I made it in a bundt pan. I wondering if its because of that.
Mina
Hi Mina,
Someone above had the same trouble Mina and I’m putting what she said here. I’m wondering if altitude has something to do with the way it bakes because I didn’t have troubles.
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clancysgirl
July 4, 2009 at 11:24 am
This cake is delicious! It’s become one of our very favorites.
Marie, I had the same problem. After googling for a solution, I reduced the baking powder from 1 teaspoon to 1/4 teaspoon, and have had perfect results ever since.
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You used your mixer here too! Woo-hoo! This is fun!
I Love this recipe. Easy and delicious! I wanted to use this comment to enter into your mixer give-away!! Thanks for the site and all the fabulous recipes! Keep up the good work.
I made this for my host mother and myself and it was AMAZING! Soooo mosit and yummy and not too orangy; it was perfect!
Im gonna make it again for my aunts tea party tomorrow!!! Thank you so much for the great recipe!
I made this pound cake and it seems that the 375 degrees for 45 minutes is not enough…..The cake was not cooked yet so I have to add another 15 minutes or more for the cake to be cooked.
Yeah Linda, I think it just depends on each person’s oven because a couple of people had to cook it longer. Hope it taste good though! WE love it
I just made this cake this evening.. had some oranges I wanted to use up…
it fell absolutely flat – I’ve never had this happen before… So what went wrong?
I am seriously bummed.
Carving for a slice right now LOL! Will make it tonite. Thanks for such a wonderful recipe!
the taste is great . the smell is amazing.. but…….. it never comes out of the pan. i made this twice and end of with a big mess. , i did butter the pan well. did anyone else have this problem ?
please let me know, i would like to make one that looks as good as it tastes
I love the simplicity of this recipe and appreciate the pics. Just made this in my little German oven. Total disaster but I believe it’s all the oven’s fault. It didn’t cook through all the way. The edges cooked all the way through and tasted pretty good. I plan to try it again at a lower oven temp. Has anyone had any success using a bundt pan?
I made this today. I read all the other posts and decided to add extra orange zest, then wound up only having 5 Tbs. of orange juice instead of the 6 the recipe called for, so all together I tripled the amount of zest in the cake itself, then added the rest of the zest I had into the glaze. We are going to try it after dinner tonight. I probably should have waited to post, but my whole house smells so freaking good, I don’t see how a thing could be wrong! By the way, my cake came out perfect and rose just fine. I used double acting baking powder and added a pinch extra and used the wrapper of the butter stick to rub onto my pan, just to be sure I grabbed a pinch of shortening too and rubbed that into the pan. I wish I could post a pic of my cake. It’s going to be divine!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m so happy that it rose for you since so many others had so much trouble! I’d love to see a photo too!! Maybe you can do it with your phone?? Or webcam??? Or something! LOL Send it to me via email lori@mywoodenspoon.com if you can get one. Let me know how it tastes!
I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to reply, but that cake was so good and moist, just a perfect whirlwind of orange in my mouth! I don’t know what everyone has been doing to cause all the problems with this cake rising, I have made it twice now and both times, I’ve had absolutely no problems. Maybe not using double acting baking powder or maybe an altitude difference. I don’t know, but the recipe is solid and tasty! I’ll send a pic to your address above. If I don’t have any from the first time I made it (I can’t remember), I’ll take some the next time. ~Thanks again!~
While the cake sounds wonderful, I was under the impression that print friendly would not waste my ink and paper and print the pictures that I don’t need. In no other site print friendly does that.
If you’ll use the little square one to the right with the other icons, it will work just like you want. I need to remove the rectangle icon. That one no longer works.
I wish I cld have read the comments before starting …I read them all and I have the same problem..the cake is in the oven since one and half hour not yet baked and didn’t rise at all ..it smells good though
I bake a lot of cakes , like one cake almost a week..today I had some oranges so wanted to bake a orange pound cake and here I am
It wld be great if the recipe had corrections after the comments:(
I am sure it wld taste great once done, As I cldnt stop tasting the cake batter
Will try to share the pics
The cake is ready and I must say it tastes Heavenly…It took one hour 45 mins to be perfectly done
) I sprayed the pan with butter and also dusted some flour so the cake came off easily..I always line he pan with foil …
We love it
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Thanks for the recipe Lori ..but pls change the technique so you can so that it doesn’t take that long
Happy baking
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