Orange cake is a wonderful dessert with a delicate taste and fresh citrus aroma. Having prepared this spectacular delicacy, you will undoubtedly surprise guests and household. Below are a few recipes from which each housewife will be able to choose the most suitable for herself.

Simple orange cake without baking

The preparation of this light dessert does not require special efforts, specific ingredients and even baking.

Ingredients:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 150 ml cream;
  • 25 g of gelatin;
  • 1 wafer cake;
  • 3 oranges;
  • 60 g of granulated sugar.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Pour gelatin with a small amount of water, let it brew for an hour. Stir occasionally.
  2. Heat in a microwave to a more liquid state, avoiding boiling.
  3. Place wafer cake on the bottom of the split mold.
  4. Mix cottage cheese, cream, granulated sugar and cooled gelatin solution with a blender until smooth.
  5. Put the resulting mixture on top of the wafer cake.
  6. Peel and chop the oranges, place them on top of the mass.
  7. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours.
  8. Decorate the finished dessert with grated chocolate.

Mousse dessert

Mousse cake with oranges is a little more complicated. For it, it is necessary to separately prepare the cake, impregnation and air mousse.

For biscuit you will need:

  • 100 g of flour;
  • three eggs;
  • 3 g of baking powder;
  • 100 g of sugar.

For impregnation and filling:

  • 100 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice;
  • 2 oranges.

For mousse:

  • 100 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 0.5 l 33% - x cream;
  • 20 g of gelatin.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Beat the whites and yolks individually with equal proportions of sugar. Beat the yolks to white, whites until stable peaks appear.
  2. Pour flour and baking powder into whipped yolks, mix.
  3. In portions, stirring gently, add protein.Stir the dough from the bottom up, preventing the sedimentation of proteins.
  4. Cover the bottom of the detachable shape with parchment.
  5. Pour the dough into the mold.
  6. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 170-180 degrees until tender.
  7. Diced peeled oranges.
  8. Pour gelatin with a small amount of water at room temperature, allow to swell.
  9. Next, stir the gelatin, stirring to a liquid state (you can use a microwave or water bath). Set aside for a while.
  10. Soak the prepared sponge cake with orange juice.
  11. With the help of a spatula, move the edges of the finished biscuit from the side of the mold so that the mousse can cover the cake completely.
  12. Sliced ​​oranges on top of biscuit.
  13. Beat cream with sugar until stable peaks appear.
  14. Gradually pour gelatin, then orange juice, without stopping whipping.
  15. Pour the mousse into the mold and knock it on the table to distribute the mass evenly.
  16. Send dessert in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
  17. After getting out of the form of dessert.

You can decorate the treat with orange slices and dark chocolate.

Orange Kurdish Treat

Kurd is a custard in the preparation of which fruit juices are used instead of milk.

To make an orange Kurd, you will need:

  • 25-30 g of orange peel;
  • 200 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 5 g of vanilla sugar;
  • 5 g of starch;
  • 80 g of butter.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Place vanilla and simple sugar, zest, juice, eggs in a saucepan.
  2. Beat mixture for several minutes.
  3. Lightly heat the contents in a water bath.
  4. Add starch.
  5. Bring the kurd to a slight boil and, continuously stirring, boil for 10 minutes.
  6. Remove from heat, cool, add oil, mix.

Use a Kurd in combination with any biscuits, cream creams and cottage cheese. It also goes well with ice cream, cottage cheese, pancakes.

Chocolate Orange Cake

Chocolate-orange cake is made from the following products:

  • 100 g of flour;
  • 15 g of cocoa powder;
  • 4 eggs;
  • 100-120 g of sugar.

Filling:

  • 20-30 g of orange jam.

Impregnation:

  • 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice;
  • 50 g of sugar;
  • 15 ml of orange liquor.

Cream:

  • 250 ml cream, fat content not less than 33%;
  • 100 g of dark chocolate;
  • 20 g of powdered sugar.

Glaze:

  • 50 g butter;
  • 50 g of dark chocolate.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Proteins and yolks are separated. Yolks beat from 60 g of sugar to white, proteins from 40 g to persistent peaks.
  2. Flour and cocoa and, stirring, add to the yolks.
  3. Enter proteins in parts, gently stirring.
  4. Pour the dough into a mold and bake at 180-200 degrees for 20-25 minutes until tender.
  5. Let the biscuit cool.
  6. Boil the cream, remove from the stove and throw the cubes of chocolate into them.
  7. After dissolving the chocolate, mix the mass with powdered sugar.
  8. Put in the cold for a couple of hours.
  9. After cooling, beat with a mixer.
  10. For impregnation, heat the juice with sugar until crystals disappear. Cool, pour in liquor.
  11. Divide the biscuit into 3 cakes.
  12. Soak the resulting cakes, lay on top of each other, smearing with cream.
  13. Part of the cream cover the sides of the biscuit.
  14. Slightly heated orange jam spread on top of the cake.
  15. For glaze, melt chocolate with butter.
  16. A little cooled icing is poured over the cake.
  17. The dessert is kept in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes until the icing hardens.

You can decorate the cake with orange zest. Dessert is perfect for both festive and family tea drinking.

Healthy dessert with carrots

Oddly enough, carrots can act as one of the components of an orange cake. She will give it a pleasant shade and will bring health benefits.

For carrot-orange cake you need to take:

  • 1 cup flour;
  • 1 cup of sugar;
  • 4 eggs;
  • 1 cup finely grated carrots;
  • 5 g of honey;
  • 10 g of baking powder;
  • 3 g of salt;
  • a bag of vanilla sugar;
  • zest of one orange;
  • 100 g of sunflower oil.

For cream:

  • 15 g of orange peel;
  • 200 ml of orange juice;
  • 15 g of flour;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 150-200 g of sugar.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Proteins and yolks are individually beaten with equal proportions of sugar.Proteins are whipped with the addition of salt - to stable peaks, yolks - until a white mass is formed.
  2. Mix carrots with zest, honey and butter and whipped yolks.
  3. Sifting flour and baking powder into the mass.
  4. Enter proteins in parts, stirring from the bottom up.
  5. Pour the dough into the mold.
  6. Bake for 50 minutes at 180 degrees until tender.
  7. In a small saucepan, heat orange juice, with zest, sugar, eggs and flour, not allowing to boil. After the sugar has dissolved, remove from the stove. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
  8. After adding pre-whipped cream, mix.
  9. Sponge cake divided into 4-5 parts.
  10. Lay the resulting cakes on top of each other, smearing with cream.
  11. Optionally, before assembly, cakes can be soaked with orange juice.

Recipe from Irina Khlebnikova

The famous blogger-culinary Irina Khlebnikova offers her own way to make an orange cake.

For a biscuit you will need:

  • 4 eggs;
  • 130 g of sugar;
  • 160 g of flour;
  • 40 g of starch;
  • zest of half an orange;
  • 80 ml of orange juice;
  • 3 g of baking powder.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Mix flour with starch and baking powder, sift.
  2. Beat eggs with sugar until airy. Add the zest.
  3. In parts, stirring from the bottom up pour the flour mixture.
  4. Boil the juice, cool, pour into the dough.
  5. Bake at 170-180 degrees, 30-35 minutes.
  6. Ready biscuit to cool, remove from the mold. Leave to brew for 5-6 hours, then divide into 3 layers.

To prepare an orange cream for the cake, you will need:

  • 350 ml of orange juice;
  • zest of 1 orange;
  • 250 ml of condensed milk;
  • 200 ml cream, fat content not less than 33%;
  • 40 g of starch;
  • 5 g of gelatin.

Step-by-step cream recipe:

  1. Pour gelatin in a small volume of juice, allow to swell.
  2. Dilute starch with juice until fluidity.
  3. Put condensed milk, juice, zest in a saucepan. Stir, introduce starch and heat on a stove until thickened. Then place in a cup, cover with cling film the surface of the mass. Cool.
  4. Heat gelatin to a more liquid consistency, stirring, add to cream.
  5. Beat cream until firm.
  6. Into the cream in parts, mix the cream.
  7. Cakes are soaked in orange juice, stack on top of each other, smearing with cream.

Irina offers cake decorating with orange roses and whipped cream.

Jelly orange cake

To prepare a dessert you will need:

  • 400 g cookies;
  • 200 g butter;
  • 700 g sour cream;
  • 1 cup of sugar;
  • 25 g of gelatin;
  • 1 sachet of dry orange jelly;
  • 2 oranges.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Tightly wrap the detachable form with cling film.
  2. Crumble cookies.
  3. Thaw the butter gradually connected to the cookies, stirring continuously.
  4. Distribute the mixture on the bottom of the mold, tamp. Send in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
  5. Pour gelatin with a small amount of water at room temperature, allow to swell.
  6. Pour granulated sugar into sour cream, beat until sugar crystals disappear.
  7. Heat gelatin in a water bath until it is completely dissolved.
  8. Pour gelatin solution into sour cream, stir.
  9. Remove the form from the refrigerator, place the resulting mixture on top of the cookies. Send in the cold until the mass solidifies.
  10. Peel oranges, cut into cubes.
  11. Dilute jelly with water as indicated on the package.
  12. In liquid jelly, add slices of orange with juice that appears.
  13. Pour the jelly with oranges into the mold, on top of the sour cream layer.
  14. Put the cake in the refrigerator for several hours to set.

To make a delicious orange cake, you don’t have to be a professional pastry chef. The main thing is to follow the recipe and choose only high-quality ingredients for cooking.

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