Orange Dreamsicle Cake
Orange dreamsicle cake is a light, luscious cloud of angel food cake filled with a creamy orange mousse, and iced with orange buttercream.
Servings: 16 servings
Calories: 469kcal
Ingredients
Angel Food Cake
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar divided
- 12 egg whites
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Orange Cream Filling
- 1 cup sugar 6.5 ounces
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 medium oranges zest and juice (about
- 16 ounces heavy whipping cream
Orange Buttercream
- 3 cups powdered sugar 10 ounces
- 8 ounces unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 Tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 2 Tablespoons orange zest
Instructions
Angel Food Cake
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a bowl, sift together the flour, and 3/4 cup of the sugar, set aside.
- In a large bowl, whip the egg whites, until soft peaks form.
- Add the vanilla, cream of tartar and salt, and continue whipping until medium stiff peaks form. Gradually add the remaining sugar, while continuing to whip whites to stiff peaks.
- After stiff peaks form, fold in the sifted ingredients gradually, one third at a time. Do not overmix. Put the batter into at 10" tube pan.
- Bake for 40 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake springs back when lightly touched. Flip the tube pan upside down and allow to cool completely. When cool, run a knife around the edge of the pan and invert onto a plate. While cake is baking, make orange filling and butercream.
Orange Filling
- Combine sugar, eggs, flour orange juice and zest, in the top of a double boiler.
- Bring to a boil, whisking constantly.
- When thick, remove and cool. Place curd in an ice bath to speed up the process.
- While orange curd is cooling, whip cream until stiff peaks form.
- When curd is cool, gently fold curd into whipped cream.
Orange Buttercream
- In a stand mixer, beat butter in a mixer until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar, vanilla, juice and zest and continue mixing until blended.
Assembling the cake
- To assemble cake, cut into thirds. Divide orange filling between layers, filling center hole and smoothing excess around cake.
- Frost cake with orange buttercream.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 469kcal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 86mg | Sodium: 129mg | Potassium: 170mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 56g | Vitamin A: 851IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 0.3mg