Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting
This scratch Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting is moist and fluffy and has wonderful flavor! We love this cake year-round but especially for fall and winter gatherings!
Servings: 15 servings
Ingredients
For the Spice Cake Layers
- 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, slightly softened (170g)
- 3 large eggs room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar (200g)
- 1 cup light brown sugar (packed into measuring cup) (217g)
- 3 cups cake flour ( if you do not have cake flour, see Note below) (342g)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder (8g)
- ½ teaspoons baking soda (3g)
- 1 salt (6g)
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon (6g)
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg (2g)
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger (1g)
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk (296g)
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil, we use canola oil (64g)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (6g)
Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 ½ cups 3 sticks (339g) unsalted butter, softened (339g)
- 1 ½ packages cream cheese, softened (339g)
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon (4g)
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg (1g)
- 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 confectioners’ sugar, sifted (690g-748g)
Instructions
For the Spice Cake Layers
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, grease, flour and add a circle of parchment or waxed paper to three 8x2 inch round pans
- In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices. Whisk for 30 seconds to blend. Set aside.
- In another bowl, add the buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and ix at medium speed until smooth. Gradually add the sugars (white and brown).
- Continue to mix on medium speed for 3 to 5 minutes (a bit longer if using hand mixer) until lightened in color and fluffy.
- Add the room temperature eggs one at a time mixing until the yellow of the yolk disappears.
- With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients (3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of liquid ingredients). After last addition, mix just until combined.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 23 to 28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Let cool in pans 5 to 10 minutes then turn out.
For the 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.
Notes
No Cake Flour? Here is a Substitution: If you do not have cake flour, measure out 3 cups of all purpose flour (plain flour in the UK). Remove 6 tablespoons ( 42g) and replace with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch (42g) (cornflour in the UK). Whisk to blend the flour and cornstarch.