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Orange Poundcake

A tasty citrus flavored light dessert

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cake, dessert, holiday desserts

Ingredients

For the cake batter:

  • 1 cup salted butter
  • 4 ounces cream cheese softened
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 2 teaspoons orange zest
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder

For the glaze:

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest
  • 1 Tablespoon orange juice

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease bundt pan.

  2. Start with butter and cream cheese at room temperature. Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar, & eggs with electric mixer. Add in vanilla, orange zest and orange juice and mix well.

  3. In a separate bowl, whisk the salt, baking powder and the flour together and beat this mixture into the egg mixture in three steps to make a batter.

  4. Bake in a greased Bundt pan at 350 F for 60 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.

  5. Cool cake in the Bundt pan on wire rack for 30 minutes and remove the cake from pan. Allow the cake to continue to cool on the rack while you make the glaze.

  6. Place the cake on a serving platter and pour the glaze over a fully cooled cake. Let the glaze set before serving.