Orange Frosting

Submitted by Andi Longmeadow Farm

"On Christmas Day so very long ago, I watched quietly from the living room window for Santa to disappear in his sleigh as the morning dawned clear and brisk. I knew he had come, and even though my parents always laughed off the idea, I *KNEW* he existed. I could peek and see there are a large, brand new spanking "Easy Bake Oven" and I almost passed out from the excitement I could hardly conceal. I ran in my room, and promptly jumped up and down on my bed until the springs creaked with enough noise to wake all the sleeping cats in the house. "He had come! and.....Santa had brought a perfectly sized oven for just me." To be truthful, I shouldn't of even peeked, but I did. The first wonderful treat I made with my oven was the tiniest little cake. My mother and I had worked together to get the ingredients right, and I learned how to put this delightful frosting together, which; to this day I still prepare with the fresh oranges that come at Christmastime. I don't have the "Easy Bake Oven" but I do have the memories."

 

• Ready In: 22mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons shortening (butter flavor=good idea!)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons orange peel (grated)
• 1 1⁄2 cups confectioners' sugar (sift if lumpy)
• 2 tablespoons orange juice, fresh

directions

1. Combine shortening, salt, orange peel, and 1/2 cup of confectioners sugar mixing until smooth and creamy delicious.
2. Add more sugar to thicken frosting or add more juice to thin the frosting.
3. When spreading consistency has been reached, just get a spoon and eat from bowl.
4. Oh no!
5. I mean, of course; spread it on a cake. Really -- .

Reviews

[terribass1]

This recipe doesn't make a lot. It would need to be double for a double layer cake.

 

[magpie diner]

Had to remove the icing to another room otherwise I would have "taste-tested" my way through it before the cupcakes were ready. Perfect little recipe. I chopped up the orange zest and may have used more than what's called for (I'd really measure that next time). Lovely fresh orange flavour. Made with softened Earth Balance - worked like a charm. Thanks Andi!

 

[Okie Mom]

This is a delicious and tasty light frosting. I would not use the butter flavored Crisco again, though. It has a disticnt taste and I think regular shortening or butter would be better. Thanks for sharing Andi!

 

[Chef floWer]

Yum! I found a tub of Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening in David Jones (Australia) in US section and I was so excited. I see this product in a lot a Zaar recipe but I can't make them because I'm not sure what to use as a substitute. So I brought a tub and kept it in the pantry, finally I found a recipe I could use it. I doubled the recipe because I need to cover 30 Recipe #269713 for Little Miss (DD) 5th birthday celebration at kindergarten (pre-school) treats to share with her class mates. The frosting/icing is special, the taste is fantastic and it was so creamy. For the Aussies again confectioners' sugar is icing sugar. Combine with the chocolate it tasted like Allens Jaffa's. I was also tempted to add a little orange food colour because it was more yellow then orange but I didn't because the pale yellow looked very elegant. Thank you Andi of Longmeadow Farm

 

[blancpage]

Andi, Andi, Andi!!! Lol! I don't know whether to love you or hate you for this one. I've never cooked with butter-flavor shortening, I went out special to buy some. I wanted to get a Valencia orange because I read in one of the forums (I forget which one) that Valencia's have better zest than Navels and since I was using the juice too, Valencia's seemed appropriate. Well I couldn't find any Valencia's where I went (and I ran out of time to go hunt), so I bought navel. The only thing I had on-hand for this was the salt and the powdered sugar, and even the powdered sugar is a newcomer to my pantry. Then I thought, oh no, I don't have an electric mixer, hope this doesn't require one. I used a handy-dandy wire whisk. I used a box grater to grate the orange peel, froze the rest in 1tsp increments. I used just over 2 tbsp of juice. I only needed 1/2 cup powdered sugar. I made this as directed. This actually makes less than a cup worth of frosting, so I'm not sure if the 4 servings listed is 'by the fingerful' lol. I have been craving vanilla cake for a week now, and decided to try one with great reviews (Recipe #216376), and then I went and changed it drastically, and I think I maybe had different expectations of a vanilla cake, so it needed something extra. This frosting made that cake. I LOVE this frosting. I licked the spatula that I used to spread it, I licked the bowl clean, I licked the whisk...I saved what was left in the fridge, as I'm going to frost the cake as I eat it, lol! I am so glad I tagged this for PRMR. Andi you rock! Thanks for reading this! 30 stars to you Andi for making my first frosting a complete success!