Orange Creamsicle Cake

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This easy, yummy Orange Creamsicle Cake recipe is totally bursting with a delicious, dreamy combo of orange and vanilla cream flavors! It’s super-moist delish, layered with an orange cream mousse filling and a nostalgic-inspired Orange Vanilla Buttercream frosting from top to bottom to tickle your fancy!

More creamsicle?  You’ll love these Easy Orange Creamsicle Cake Bars and these Orange Creamsicle Jello Shots!

Why We Love This Orange Creamsicle Cake

If you love the combination of orange and vanilla flavors, then you will love this recipe for Orange Creamsicle Cake! With the perfect balance of tangy orange and smooth vanilla flavors, this fluffy, moist orange dreamsicle cake is sure to be a hit with everyone in your family.

This luscious dessert is great for Easter and all spring and summer when you you’re craving something fruity orange, zingy and sweet!

This really brings me back to my childhood days!  Who can forget Orange Creamsicle popsicles and the ice cream truck!

Why This Orange Creamsicle Cake Is So Easy To Make!

So, we made this recipe easy by starting with a boxed orange cake mix.   We took the boxed cake recipe up a couple notches with additions of instant vanilla pudding, oil, eggs, milk and orange zest! This is a shortcut that saves us some time!

Easy step-by-step instructions on how to create an Orange Creamsicle Cake that is so delicious, you’ll want to serve it at every summer gathering.

We will cover the ingredients you’ll need, how to bake the perfect cake and more. Get ready to impress your family and friends with this delectable dessert – they won’t be able to resist!

If you’re looking for a homemade cake, maybe you’ll love this Best Angel Food Cake, this Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake, this Magnolia Bakery’s Coconut Layer Cake or this Super-Moist Chocolate Cake.

Ingredients for Orange Creamsicle Cake

Orange Creamsicle Cake Mix Cake Recipe

• Duncan Hines Orange Supreme Cake Mix
• instant vanilla pudding
• canola oil
• milk of choice
• eggs
• orange zest

Orange Cream Mousse Filling

• instant vanilla pudding 
• heavy whipping cream
• orange curd (or 1 teaspoon of orange extract or vanilla could be used depending on which way you want to flavor the filling.)

Ingredients for Orange Vanilla Cream Frosting 

Orange Vanilla Cream Frosting Recipe

• unsalted butter
• confectioners’ sugar
• orange juice
• vanilla extract
• heavy cream or milk of choice

Optional: Orange food gel or color for accent color for swirls on top.

How to Make Our Dreamy Layered Orange Cake

Orange Creamsicle Cake Using Orange Cake Mix

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Spray (2) 8 or 9 inch round cake pans with nonstick spray or Baker’s Joy. If desired, also line the bottoms of cake pans with parchment paper for easier removal. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, using mixer, mix together the cake mix, instant pudding, oil, milk, orange zest and eggs for 3 minutes on medium speed.
3. Pour cake batter mixture evenly into prepared cake pans and then lightly tap pans on counter to pop any air bubbles in the batter. 
4. Bake for 30-45 minutes depending on size pans you are using or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean or moist crumbs and not wet. 
5. Make frosting & filling while cakes are cooling. 

Orange Cream Mousse Filling

1. Use a mixer, beat the pudding mix, whipping cream and orange curd/orange extract together until until thick and fluffy. If mousse is too thick, mix in small amounts of heavy cream to reach desired consistency.
2. Keep filling refrigerated and chilled before adding to cooled cakes. 

Orange Vanilla Cream Frosting

1. Using mixer, beat butter until creamy.  Add confectioner’s sugar, orange juice/orange extract, vanilla and cream/milk and mix together on low speed gradually until powdered sugar is mixed in, then boost to medium high speed until smooth and creamy.  If frosting is too thin, add a little more confectioner’s sugar and if it’s too thick, add a little more cream/milk. 
2. If you are adding extra frosting on swirls on the top, add some orange food color to tint your frosting and add colored frosting to piping bag with large star tip of choice and pipe swirls on top of cake.
3. Even add orange slices, mandarin orange slices or sprinkles on top for a pop or orange color! 

How to Assemble Cake

1. Place one of orange cake layers on the pedestal or cake plate.
2. Pipe a dam of the orange vanilla cream frosting about 1/2 inch from the edge of the cake layer using a piping bag or zip-lock bag with hole snipped off one of the corners. 
3. Fill the center with the orange cream mousse filling and add the next layer of cake on top. 
4. Top your cake off with more swirls of frosting tinted in orange or add orange slices, candy orange slices, or orange sprinkles for some pop of color!

Storing & Freezing 

• You can easily store the orange cake covered at room temperature or refrigerated for up to three days.
• Freeze the orange cake before frosting and filling for best results.
• Store for up to a month in the freezer.

Other Flavor Options & Hacks For Orange Dreamsicle Cake Mix Recipe

• For cake mix choices, you can substitute a yellow or white cake mix.  It will still be full of orange flavor!
• For a light and fluffy frosting option, frost it easy with whipped cream.
• If you want a shortcut on the frosting, frost with a prepared orange, vanilla frosting or cream cheese frosting in the tub.  You’ll need 2 or 3 depending on how much frosting you want.  You could also add some fresh orange juice to your vanilla or cream cheese frosting for more orange flavor!

We’re loving this Orange Creamsicle Cake for all the good times we’re gonna have this spring and summer!  You can enjoy both the flavor and the convenience of an all-in-one treat. You may never go back to regular cake again! It’s refreshing, and the taste is luscious!  Serve with some vanilla ice cream!

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Orange Creamsicle Cake

Kim Lange

This easy, yummy Orange Creamsicle Cake recipe is totally bursting with a delicious, dreamy combo of orange and vanilla cream flavors! 

4.81 from 47 votes

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 12 Servings

Calories

Ingredients

  

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Orange Supreme Cake

• 1 box Duncan Hines Orange Supreme Cake Mix
• ½ cup canola oil or vegetable oil
• 1 & ½ cups milk of choice
• 1 3.4 oz box instant vanilla pudding
• 4 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon orange zest

Orange Cream Mousse Filling

• 1 3.4 oz box instant vanilla pudding
• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon orange curd more if you wish (or you could also add in 1 teaspoon of orange extract or vanilla could be used depending on which way you want to flavor the filling.)

Orange Vanilla Cream Frosting

• 1 ¼ cups unsalted butter room temperature
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 4 tablespoons orange juice or 1 & 1/2 teaspoons orange extract
• 6 cups confectioner’s sugar
• 2-4 tablespoons heavy cream or milk
• Optional: orange food gel or color for accent color for swirls on top.

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray (2) 8 or 9 inch cake pans with nonstick spray or Baker’s Joy. If desired, also line the bottoms of cake pans with parchment paper for easier removal. Set aside.

Orange Supreme Cake

• Using mixer, mix together the cake mix, instant pudding, oil, milk, orange zest and eggs for 3 minutes on medium speed.
• Pour cake batter evenly into prepared cake pans and then lightly tap pans on counter to pop any air bubbles in the batter.
• Bake for 30-45 minutes depending on size pans you are using or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
• Make frosting & filling while cakes are cooling.
• Let the cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove the cakes from the cake pans and let cool completely on a baking rack.

Orange Cream Mousse Filling

• Use a mixer, beat the pudding mix, whipping cream and orange curd/orange extract together until until thick and fluffy. If mousse is too thick, mix in small amounts of heavy cream to reach desired consistency.
• Keep filling refrigerated and chilled before adding to cooled cakes.

Orange Vanilla Cream Frosting

• Using mixer, beat butter until creamy. Add confectioner's sugar, orange juice/orange extract, vanilla and cream/milk. If frosting is too thin, add a little more confectioner’s sugar and if it’s too thick, add a little more cream/milk.
• If you are adding extra frosting on swirls on the top, add some orange food color to tint your frosting and add colored frosting to piping bag with large star tip of choice and pipe swirls on top of cake.

Assembly

• Place one of orange cake layers on the pedestal or cake plate. Pipe a dam of the orange vanilla cream frosting about 1/2 inch from the edge of the cake layer using a piping bag or ziplok bag with hole snipped off one of the corners. Fill the center with the orange cream mousse filling and add the next layer of cake on top.
• Frost the cake with orange vanilla frosting. Add colored swirls of orange colored frosting on top if desired. Even add orange slices or sprinkles on top for a pop or orange color.

Notes

STORING & FREEZING

• You can easily store the orange cake covered at room temperature or refrigerated for up to three days.
• Freeze the orange cake before the frosting and filling for best results.
• Store for up to a month in the freezer.

Keyword cake, creamsicle, easter desserts, frosting, orange, spring desserts, summer desserts, vanilla

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Orange Dreamsicle cake slightly modified from A Farmgirl’ Kitchen

Orange Cream Filling slightly modified from My Cake School