Orange Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe

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Fall is the season of spice cakes! Today's Orange Spice Cake recipe is a new favorite of ours-- and it is so easy to make with a cake mix!

Orange Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe- SO moist and delicious!

 

 

This Orange Spice Layer Cake is bursting with so much flavor-- I've never tried adding orange to spice cakes before and now that I have, I never want to go back. 

How to Make Orange Spice Cake with a Cake Mix

**You can find the full, printable cake recipe below but here is a basic rundown!:

After preheating the oven to 325 degrees, grease and flour three 8x2 round cake pans. (You could also make two thick 8 inch cake layers but I like the additional layer of cream cheese filling that three layers gives us!)

In the bowl of your mixer, combine dry ingredients and whisk at least 30 seconds to blend. In another bowl, combine sour cream, water, eggs, & flavorings and zest.

 

This Orange Spice Cake recipe is the BEST! Nobody would ever guess that it all starts with a simple cake mix!

 

Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stop after 1 minute to scrape the sides and bottom of bowl then continue to beat for the second minute.

Pour into prepared pans and bake at 325 degrees....check at 25 minutes to see if middle of cake springs back when touched, a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake come out clean or with just a few crumbs attached, and the cake will be slightly pulled away from the pan.

This Orange Spice Layer Cake all starts with a simple cake mix! So moist and flavorful!

 

 

 

 Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting

I absolutely love cream cheese frosting on spice cakes, and so went with a spiced cream cheese frosting with a little extra orange added!

You'll notice that the recipe calls for a little orange extract- I just wanted to give it a little boost of extra orange flavor without having to add a lot of liquid to the frosting (since cream cheese frostings are softer than buttercream). 

The orange extract is optional- if you don't have any on hand, you can just add additional zest. Plain cream cheese frosting is a great choice also.

This is such an easy frosting recipe and tastes SO good!

 

 

This Orange Spice Cake Mix is so moist and flavorful! You will love how simple it is to make! It is the perfect fall cake.

 

 

This Orange Spice Cake all starts with a doctored cake mix! This is the perfect fall dessert!

 

I frosted the cake in our Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting, and textured around the sides with a small offset spatula.

For the piping on top, I used a piping tip 1M and also added additional orange zest! 

 

Orange Spice Layer Cake- This Doctored Cake recipe has so much flavor! It is the perfect fall cake!

 

 

 

 

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These are just a few of our favorite fall cakes! We've made so many over the years-- You can find our full roundup here: Roundup of the BEST Fall Cake Recipes!

 

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Orange Spice Cake-Doctored Cake Mix

 

Enjoy the Recipe!

We hope that you enjoy this Orange Spice Cake as much as we have! If you give it a try, we'd love to hear what you think in the comments below!This moist, ,delicious Orange Spice Layer Cake is the perfect fall dessert!

 

 

Orange Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe

This moist, ,delicious Orange Spice Layer Cake is the perfect fall dessert!

Ingredients

For the Orange Spice Cake Layers

  • 1 box Spice Cake Mix, sifted ( we used Duncan Hines 15.25 oz.)
  • 1 cup (121g) all purpose flour
  • 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
  • generous dash of salt
  • 1 cup (242g) sour cream or plain yogurt (greek yogurt is fine also)
  • 1 cup (240g) orange juice
  • 1 Tablespoon Orange Zest (about 1 medium sized orange)
  • 3 whole eggs
  • 2 teaspoons (8g)vanilla

For the Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 1 ½ cups (3 sticks) (339g) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 ½ packages ( (339 g) (8 ounces packages) cream cheese (soften just slightly
  • and cut into pieces to add to bowl
  • 2 teaspoons (4g) cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon (1g) nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger (2g) *sift if clumpy
  • 1 teaspoon orange flavoring (4g)
  • 1.5 Tablespoons Orange Zest (adjust to your liking)
  • 6 to 6 ½ cups (690g - 748g) more if needed confectioners’ sugar, sifted

Instructions

For the Orange Spice Cake

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Grease and flour three 8x2 round cake pans.

In the bowl of your mixer, combine dry ingredients and whisk at least 30 seconds to blend. In another bowl, combine sour cream, orange juice, eggs, & flavorings and zest.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stop after 1 minute to scrape the sides and bottom of bowl then continue to beat for the second minute.

Pour into prepared pans and bake at 325 degrees....check at 35 minutes to see if middle of cake springs back when touched, a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake come out clean or with just a few crumbs attached, and the cake will be slightly pulled away from the pan.

We bake at 325 degrees to decrease the height of the dome on the cakes.

Makes about 7 cups of batter. Works well for cupcakes too!

Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting

Using your mixer, beat the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until well blended.

Add the flavoring, zest, and spices. With the mixer on low speed gradually add the confectioners’ sugar and mix until it is a good piping consistency.

 

 

 

 

 

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17 Comments

    1. Hi Lisa, We have not made this recipe in a tube pan but I think it would be fine to do so. I am sure of the baking time for a tube pan so
      keep an eye on it. The cake will be done when a toothpick comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached.

  1. The recipe says 35 minutes and I thought about it and in your step by step it says 25 minutes. I just pulled the cake layers out at 34 minutes and I have a feeling they're over baked. Wow, I hope I don't have a dried out cake.