Glazed Orange Dream Pound Cake
“Velvety soft and moist glazed orange dream pound cake! Full of orange and vanilla flavors!”
Watch me make this glazed orange dream pound cake from start to finish!
If you haven’t figured it out by now, I have pound cake recipes for DAYZZZZZ!!!! I swear there will never be a shortage of them on Divas Can Cook thanks to my obsession with them! Gosh, they make me so happy! My husband’s grandmother has an entire file cabinet row FULL of nothing but hand-written pound cake recipes that date as far back as the 1800s. I could seriously spend all day browsing through her expansive recipe collection.
When I saw this recipe for a glazed orange dream pound cake, I had to give it a try. This cake apparently has many names, ” Sunkist Pound Cake” and” Orange Pound Cake” are the most common. The first time I made it, I wasn’t too thrilled with the texture, so I adjusted the fats to get that moist, velvety texture that I love! It was an easy adaptation. I also replaced the orange juice with orange Sunkist soda and a bit more orange and vanilla extract.
Which orange soda to use for orange pound cake?
For orange pound cake use your favorite brand of orange soda. I usually switch between Orange Crush and Orange Sunkist. Faygo, Nehi, and Fanta also win! I just think Sunkist has more of a natural orange flavor.
I’m not a huge fan of putting soda and food coloring in my cakes, but sometimes you just gotta DO IT to achieve a deeper flavor and color, once it’s baked. It was the right call with this cake. I LOVE the color!
That orange soda + orange extract + orange zest was the ticket! It allowed the cake to have a perfectly light orange-vanilla flavor without one totally overpowering the other.
Just look at that velvety soft, tight crumb texture!! It’s freakin perfect! I tried a new organic, non-hydrogenated shortening (Spectrum), and it worked really well in this recipe.
I’m not 100% sold on it because I haven’t baked with it enough, but if it continues to work out with my recipes, you’ll be seeing it often on my channel. They have butter-flavored as well! I’m always on the lookout to “clean up” some of my favorite ingredients! *crossing fingers*
For this orange dream pound cake, I used a simple vanilla-orange glaze. I think a cream cheese glaze would also taste amazing on this cake!
Enjoy!
Get the Recipe: Glazed Orange Dream Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperatue
- 1/2 cup butter-flavor shortening
- 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1½- 2 tablespoons orange extract
- zest of 1 medium orange, plus more for garnish if desired
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cups orange soda, I used Sunkist
- red and yellow food coloring, to make orange if deisred
GLAZE (double if desired)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 Tablespoons milk, or enough to make a thick, pourable glaze
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Grease and lightly flour a bundt pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
- Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Stir in orange extract and vanilla extract.
- Stir in orange zest.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour and salt.
- Combine dry ingredients into wet ingredients, mixing gently, alternating with the orange soda.
- Stir in red and yellow food coloring to create a deeper orange color, if desired.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with moist crumbs clinging. (Do not overbake as cake will continue to cook as it sits in the pan to cool.)
- Remove from oven and leave in pan until pan is cool enough to touch.
- Remove cake from pan and place on a cooling rack until completely cooled.
- Mix glaze ingredients and pour over cooled cake.
- Sprinkle with orange zest and let glaze harden.
- Serve!
Video
It looks like 2 1/2 cups soda in video. Receipe says1 1/4 cup.. Which is correct?
I do looks like more than 11/4 cup soda.Receipe says 11/4 cup. What’s right?
My Aunt used to make the best orNgr cake. It was actually too rich for me and my mother, but my son loves it. My mother told me that her sister offered to give her the recipe, but mom respectfully turned it down, saying she didn’t bake sweets. Since then my dear Aunt passed away. She had always made that cake for my mom’s birthday. I love to get family recipes and always name them after the friend or family member so that when it’s served. we reminisce about the dearly departed. My cousin now has the recipe and says it’s a secret and she won’t share with any living members. This makes me sad. I would love to remember my Aunt each time we serverved Aunt Doris’ Orange Cake and pass it down, with wonderful memories to generations to come. The picture looks just like hers. I hope it is.
I cooked this cake for my family for Christmas and they absolutely loved it! I would give more than 5 stars if I could. A must try!
I thank you for having a video that i was able to follow along with it. IT was very helpful. I enjoyed making this cake and the outcome of it was beautiful. When i made this for my family for Thanksgiving they fell in love with it. Thank you so much.
I must have over baked mine because it wasn’t moist and crumbly like yours, however the flavor was delicious! Or maybe I mixed it to much not sure but I’m going to bake another one right now! Your recipes always work perfectly, so it had to be something on my end!