I know there was a post recently that was about a bridal show. Included in the topic was her recipe for and orange cake with orange butter cream. Maybe this will help you find the link.
I just posted a recipe over in another thread asking a similar question...
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-16650.html
and it has an orange icing recipe too.
Do a search for "ellepal" - she's the one who posted about her bridal show experience and it has her orange cake/frosting notes in it. Not sure that it's an actual recipe, but she tells what she does to a white or yellow cake to make it orange. You could probably PM her as well and she could help you out. Her cake sounds SO GOOD!!!
Well here's what I would do. In whatever recipe you are using (unless it calls for butter milk or heavy cream) I would substitute orange juice for the liquid and then perhaps add either orange flavoring or lemon or maybe even pina colada flavoring (loRann's oil of course). And then grate some orange zest into the batter and bake away.
For the buttercream I made some and all I did was substitute orange juice for the liquid and added pina colada flavored oil instead of lemon or almond (did add the vanilla though, I always use the vanilla and then add the other flavors on top of that so the flavors meld and aren't sooo overpowering). One thing though, The frosting will be an ivory color from the orange juice. I don't know of a way of getting around that unless you just use the orange oil or something.
There's Orange flavoring in those little "extract" type bottles that you could use. but I'll be honest, the best orange flavored cake I've ever made I used Orange flavoring that they use for sno-cones. I put in roughly half a cup of it instead of that half cup of water and added the extra 3/4 of water instead of the full 1 1/4 cups of water.
I make a great mandarin orange cake. This is what I do:
1 white or yellow cake mix
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
1 can madarin oranges, throw it into a measuring cup and if needed at a bit more water till it the liquid is at 1 1/3 cup
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup oil
mix this up and you have a very delicious madarin orange cake. I suppose you could just add orange juice instead but I haven't tried that! Good luck.
Janzcakes - that sounds really delicious! I love mandarin oranges...have to try that one soon! What kind of icing do you put with it?
I've made the Whimsical Bakehouse's Orange Butter Cake many times, always with great reviews. I fill it with their Orange Mousse, which is just an orange curd (like lemon curd) with sweetened whipped cream folded in...really great together or separately. If you'd like the recipe I'd be happy to post it for you, just let me know.
Yes, I'd love that recipe, sounds great! Remember when putting in the can of mandarin oranges, I use the liquid also. I have just done this cake with regular buttercream and also with choc buttercream followed by choc ganache and it was really good!
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