The Perfect Orange Cake Recipe (easy and moist!)
Made with just a handful of simple ingredients, including fresh oranges and Greek yogurt, this is a super easy Orange Cake recipe, that produces an incredibly moist cake with a lovely tender crumb.
Servings: 1 9 inch cake
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup Vegetable oil
- 2 Eggs room temperature
- 2 tbsp Orange zest you will need around 2 oranges
- ¼ cup Orange juice from the fresh oranges you just zested!
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1½ cups Caster sugar superfine sugar
- 2 cups Self Raising flour see notes
- Icing sugar to dust
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 180℃ or 350℉ (160℃ if using a fan oven)
- Spray a 9 inch cake tin with oil and line with parchment paper
- To a large bowl, add the vegetable oil, eggs, zest, juice, Greek yogurt and caster sugar. Use a balloon whisk to whisk it all together
- Add the flour to the wet ingredients and whisk gently until there are no remaining lumps of flour
- Pour the cake batter into your prepared pan and bake for 50-55 minutes, until golden brown and cooked in the middle (use a cake tester and make sure it comes out clean)
- Remove from the oven and sit the cake tin on a wire rack, to allow the cake to cool completely in the pan
- Once cooled, dust with icing sugar and serve
Notes
Substitutions and Additions
- Self Raising Flour: whisk 2 teaspoons of baking powder into all purpose flour, to make self raising flour
- Greek Yogurt: can be swapped for sour cream here -it will still produce that lovely tender crumb.
- Icing Sugar: for a more intense orange flavour, make a simple syrup using orange juice and brush it over the top of the cake while it's still warm.
- Add Vanilla: for a more rounded and less citrus flavour, try adding a teaspoon of vanilla extract
- Glaze: want to make it a little more fancy? Top your orange cake with a simple vanilla or orange glaze and sprinkle with orange zest.
- Swap the round cake tin: instead of the 9 inch cake tin I have used, try a loaf pan or bundt pan -the bake time should still be around the same, but be sure to test the cake with a knife or cake tester