Recipe: Delicious Fruit cake with orange buttercream

Fruit cake with orange buttercream. For the cream: peel and fillet oranges. Whisk butter with sugar until frothy, add cream cheese and liqueur. Place bottom layer of a cake on a plate and spread with orange cream.

I love the simplicity of the flavours. Put all the buttercream icing ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until pale and fluffy. Use a third of the icing to sandwich the two cake layers. You can have Fruit cake with orange buttercream using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fruit cake with orange buttercream

1. You need 250 g of all purpose flour.
2. You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
3. You need 4 of eggs.
4. It's 175 g of sugar.
5. Prepare 175 g of margarine.
6. You need 1/2 cup of raisins (soaked overnight in orange juice or in brandy).
7. It's 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence.
8. Prepare 1 teaspoon of Mixed spices.
9. It's 500 g of icing sugar.
10. It's 200 g of margarine.

This orange cake is wicked easy to make and is to die for. It is moist and delicate and loaded in flavor. We are going to make an orange buttercream to fill. This tasty orange frosting for cakes and cupcakes is made with fresh orange zest and juice, butter, a little flavoring, and optional food coloring.

Fruit cake with orange buttercream step by step

1. Combine sugar and margarine in a bowl and beat together using a mixer or a whisk until light and fluffy. Add eggs one by one as you mix and vanilla essence..
2. Combine flour, baking powder and mixed spices into a bowl. Pour the flour mixture into the sugar - margarine mixture and mix together. Throw in the raisins and mix then pour the batter into your baking tin..
3. Bake at 180°C for 1 hour. As the cake cools prepare your buttercream. Beat the margarine until light and add icing sugar gradually. Apply the buttercream onto the cake as you may wish..

This tasty orange frosting is considered an American buttercream and is delicious on vanilla, chocolate, carrot, or spiced cakes and cupcakes. It goes wonderfully on orange cupcakes or over white, yellow or chocolate cake. Our Test Kitchen gave simple buttercream frosting a tangy twist by adding a splash of orange juice. Cake Paper Party - Orange cake with Passion Fruit buttercream. I love an orange chiffon cake and I love passionfruit, this combination sounds divine.