Orange Sponge Tube Cake

Submitted by CCLady

"This is a favorite from a very old Better Homes and Gardens book. I use it to make my Orange Icebox Cake (recipe 75433)."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 25mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 6 egg yolks
• 1 tablespoon orange zest
• 1⁄2 cup orange juice
• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄3 cups flour
• 6 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1⁄2 cup sugar

directions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 325º.
2. Beat the egg yolks until very thick and light-colored.
3. Add the orange peel and the juice and continue to beat until very thick.
4. Beat in 1 cup of sugar and the salt.
5. Gently fold in the flour.
6. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar until they reach the soft-peak stage.
7. Gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar.
8. Gently fold the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture.
9. Spoon into ungreased 10-inch tube pan.
10. Bake 55 minutes, or till done.
11. Invert pan to cool.

Reviews

[cpenner]

I topped this cake with an orange glaze and served it as my husband's birthday cake. It was absolutely perfect in every way. I loved the orange flavour. I will definitely keep this recipe!

 

[jselbo]

We've made this go-to cake and its lemon variant for years (substitute 2 tsp lemon peel for 1 tbl orange and 1/4 c lemon juice and 1/4 c water for 1/2 c orange juice) for years. We drizzle chocolate ganache on the orange cake (yum!) and use lemon glaze for the lemon cake.gets rave reviews and is satisfyingly simple.

 

[danielle]

I made this sponge cake and topped with an orange glaze. It is light and delicious! Just becareful of the pan size, mine grew too big.