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    Home » Desserts » Cakes

    Fresh Orange Pound Cake in a Loaf Pan

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    Published by Rebecca Eisenberg ⁠— August 13, 2024 — 23 Comments

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    orange pound cake with sour cream

    This fresh orange pound cake bursts with vibrant citrus flavor from the juice, zest, and flesh of just one whole orange, and boasts a tender crumb thanks to a dollop of sour cream. Baked in a standard-sized loaf pan, it’s a simple yet delightful cake that pairs perfectly with a cup of tea or scoop of ice cream. It's a slice of sunshine in every bite!

    a cross section of orange pound cake.

    I love orange flavor far more than I love eating oranges. So when I was recently gifted a half dozen oranges, I wanted to find a way to use them that wasn't just eating them plain. So I took my popular lemon-blueberry sour cream cake recipe and gave it an orange makeover.

    I also wanted to make sure as little of the orange went to waste as possible. So this pound cake uses the juice, flesh, and zest of the orange to flavor the cake, as well as orange zest and fresh orange juice to make the simple icing glaze. When you look closely at the cake crumb, you can see real flecks of orange when you slice it!

    The addition of sour cream makes this single-orange pound cake extra moist and tender, while the zest, juice, and flesh bring vibrant orange flavor to every slice.

    an orange glazed pound cake with one slice cut off the front.

    In this post I'll walk you through how to make the most of a single orange to bake up an orange pound cake that's perfect all year round.

    Like all my best cake recipes, this orange pound cake is so good served with a scoop of ice cream. Personally, I recommend my favorite orange cardamom chocolate chip ice cream. But it's also great dolloped with mascarpone and marmalade or fresh berries!

    Ingredient Notes

    Here are the ingredients that you'll need to make this orange loaf cake recipe! See recipe card for quantities.

    orange pound cake ingredients measured and labeled.
    • Large Orange Juice, Flesh, and Zest - The bigger the better when it comes to picking the perfect orange for this cake. While you can use any variety of orange, I liked the results I got best from a Valencia orange. They're a bit easier to juice and they're sweeter than Naval oranges, giving the cake a better flavor while also being slightly less work for you. The different parts of the orange are used in a couple different steps of this recipe, so make sure you read each step carefully to make sure you're not discarding something you'll need later!
    • Unsalted Butter - This recipe uses unsalted American-style butter (e.g. not European butter like Kerrygold). If using salted butter, cut the amount of salt in the recipe in half.
    • Sugar - Plain old regular granulated white sugar.
    • Eggs - This recipe uses large eggs. Extra large eggs will also work.
    • Flour - Regular all purpose flour. Gluten free cup-for-cup all purpose flours should also work, but I haven't personally tested them.
    • Sour Cream - Full fat sour cream (or full fat plain Greek yogurt) adds a ton of moisture and makes this cake very soft and tender.
    • Salt - I use Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt which is half as salty as other brands and types of salt. If you're measuring by volume (teaspoons) and using a different brand of salt, even a different brand of kosher salt, cut the amount of salt in half.
    • Baking Powder - Double acting baking powder helps ensure this cake rises dramatically with a soft, tender texture.
    • Powdered Sugar - Also called confectioner's sugar. This is a fine powdered sugar that is used to make the orange icing on top of this cake.

    Optional Additions:

    • For a wintery take on orange pound cake, add a bit of cinnamon, ground cardamom, or cloves along with the dry ingredients.
    • For an orange-creamsicle vibe, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract along with the final egg.
    • For a crackly sugar top without the icing glaze, follow the instructions for the lemon-sugar topping in my lemon-blueberry pound cake recipe but replace the lemon zest with orange zest.
    • If you're a chocolate-lover, follow the instructions for adding mini chocolate chips from my chocolate chip loaf cake recipe.

    🍽 Mise en place (aka "the setup")

    Mise en place is a French culinary term that literally translates to "putting in place."

    It basically means: Measure all your ingredients and make sure you have all the right tools and equipment ready to go when you need them before you start working.

    This can make a huge difference in a) how enjoyable you find the baking and cooking process and b) the success of your recipe!

    Here's the mise en place you'll need before you begin this recipe:

    • Bring the butter to room temperature. Let the butter sit out at room temperature (70°F) for an hour or two prior to baking. If you need to speed this process up, microwave the wrapped sticks of butter for about 4 seconds per side. The butter should still feel slightly cool to the touch and soft enough to press a finger into, but not so soft that it's greasy or melty — you're looking for a temperature of about 65°F.
    • Bring the eggs to room temperature. Submerge the eggs in very hot water for about 10-15 minutes prior to mixing. This helps them incorporate into the cake batter easily and will allow your cake to rise. If they're cold when you add them to the butter and sugar, they'll cool down the butter, causing the batter to break and separate.
    • Zest about ¾ of the orange peel into the sugar. This is for the first step of the recipe, but since you'll also need to juice part of the orange before you get started, it's easiest to get the zest off before you cut the orange!
    • Mix the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl or container, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
    • Mix the wet ingredients together. Mix together the sour cream, orange juice, and orange pulp. Set it aside. Cut the orange into quarters, squeeze as much juice out of two or three of the quarters as you can, and then use your fingers to shred the pulp into the mixture until you reach the correct weight. ***IMPORTANT: Cut the orange so you can save at least one of the orange quarters with the peel still on to use to make the icing later.***
    two hands pulling the pulp out of an orange into a bowl of sour cream.
    whisking together orange juice, pulp, and sour cream.

    How to Make Orange Pound Cake

    The first step of this orange pound cake recipe is to rub the orange zest into the sugar. This releases the oils from the zest and does a lot to really enhance the orange flavor of the cake. If you have dexterity issues or can't rub the zest into the sugar, you can let the mixer paddle do the work for you.

    using a microplane zester to zest the orange peel into the sugar.
    a hand rubbing the orange zest into the sugar until it turns orange.

    From here, we're following the creaming method of mixing, just like most of my other best cake recipes. I wrote a lot more about the creaming method in detail in my vanilla pound cake recipe and I do recommend popping over there to read about it if you're a beginner baker.

    Combine the softened butter, granulated sugar, and the orange zest in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment and cream them together on medium speed.

    Being patient during the first step of creaming the butter and sugar together is particularly important for giving your cake a soft, fluffy texture and a dramatic domed top. It can take several minutes for it to reach the right fluffy texture and pale color.

    creamed together butter and sugar in the bowl of a mixer with the paddle attachment.

    Pause and scrape down the bowl and beater at least 3 times (about every 90 seconds) during the creaming step.

    When properly creamed together, the orange butter and sugar mixture will be pale in color, light, and fluffy looking. If you rub it between your fingers, the sugar granules should be almost entirely dissolved but still feel slightly gritty.

    The next step is to add the eggs without collapsing all the air you just worked into the butter. You do this by adding them one at a time and giving the butter plenty of time to incorporate each egg (about 45-60 seconds) before adding the next one.

    a single egg added to the cake batter in the mixer bowl.

    Scrape down the bowl and beater before adding each egg, and then again before you move on to the next step.

    The final step is to alternate adding the dry ingredients and the orange pulp and sour cream mixture on the lowest speed possible. Using a low speed for this final step prevents over-mixing and ensures your cake has a moist, tender texture.

    half the flour mixture added to the mixing bowl. a small bowl with the remaining flour sits beside it.

    Add half of the dry ingredients. Mix on the lowest possible speed. Wait for them to be almost entirely incorporated, then scrape down the bowl and beater.

    the orange sour cream mixture added to the mixing bowl with the paddle attachment.

    Add the orange sour cream. Again, mix on the lowest possible speed just until combined. Scrape down the bowl and beater.

    Add the rest of the dry ingredients and mix on low. Stop the mixer when there are a few streaks of flour left in the bowl. You'll finish mixing those in by hand when you scrape down the beater and sides of the bowl. This also helps prevent over mixing!

    a hand using a mini offset spatula to smooth the cake batter into a lined loaf pan.

    Use a mini offset spatula to smooth the batter out, pressing it down into the corners of the pan to press out any air bubbles. This will help the cake bake up evenly.

    a line of skinny sticks of butter down the middle length of the cake batter in the pan.

    [OPTIONAL] Cut a sliver of butter into matchsticks and arrange them in a line down the middle length of the cake batter. This controls where the cake cracks open during baking.

    Bake the cake at 350°F for 60-65 minutes, until a toothpick or small knife inserted into the center comes out with just a few crumbs clinging to it. You're looking for an internal temperature of 200°-209°F.

    Let the orange loaf cake cool in the pan on a cooling rack for about 15-20 minutes. Then run a knife around any sides of the pan without parchment paper and use the parchment sling to lift it out and onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

    This cake is so soft and tender, it needs to be completely cool so the starches have time to set before you slice it. Otherwise, it might fall apart on you!

    Orange Icing Glaze

    Take one of the orange quarters that hasn't been zested or juiced yet that you set aside earlier. Zesting an orange quarter isn't the easiest thing ever, but if you hold it over the bowl of powdered sugar, at least any juice dripping off will go where it needs to end up anyway.

    juicing a quarter of an orange into a small bowl of powdered sugar and orange zest sitting on top of a green kitchen scale.

    Once the orange quarter is zested into the powdered sugar, squeeze the juice out of the orange quarter into the bowl.

    whisking together the orange icing glaze.

    Whisk it all together until you have a nice smooth glaze. For a thinner glaze, add more juice. For a thicker glaze, add more powdered sugar.

    spreading the orange icing glaze onto the cake sitting on parchment paper on a cooling rack.

    Pour the orange icing glaze over the top of the pound cake and use a mini offset spatula to spread it around in an even layer.

    Pro-Tip: Rotate the sheet of parchment paper that lined the loaf pan under the cake so that it can catch drips on all the sides!

    Your orange icing glazed pound cake is now ready to serve!

    Suggested Equipment

    Here's the equipment I use to make this orange pound cake. You don't need to have all of these same tools, but they may make the process easier!

    • Microplane Zester - A classic rasp-style zester will make quick work of the orange peel to give you super fine zest for the cake batter and icing glaze. Use code TPK10 for 10% off your order at Microplane.com!
    • Electric Mixer - I use a KitchenAid stand mixer with the paddle attachment. An electric hand mixer will also work — the creaming stage may just take a little longer.
    • 1 Pound Loaf Pan - A "1 pound" loaf pan is approximately 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 3 inches tall. A 1.25 pound loaf pan (9x5x3) will also work but your cake may not have the same height that mine does in these photos as there's more room for the batter to spread out. Metal pans work best for getting that golden brown crust. You may need to adjust baking time and temperature if using a glass pan.
    • Quarter Pan Pre-Cut Parchment Sheets - I use these pre-cut parchment sheets to create a parchment sling that lines the pan to make the pound cake easier to remove. You'll have to trim about an inch off one of the long sides for it to fit, but they work very nicely!
    • Metal Binder Clips - To secure the parchment paper in place so it doesn't fold in on top of the cake in the oven. Do not use plastic binder clips in the oven. I repeat, no plastic in the oven.
    • Mini Offset Spatula - For smoothing out the cake batter in the pan. Trust me, you'll think a regular spatula or a knife can do the same job, but once you try using a mini offset spatula, there's no going back.
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    Storage Notes & Freezing

    This orange pound cake can be stored at room temperature with an airtight cover for 4-5 days. You can also refrigerate it in an airtight container for up to a week.

    You can also freeze this pound cake for up to 3 months. Freeze it on a sheet tray to get the icing to set, then wrap tightly in plastic wrap and place it inside a resealable plastic bag with as much air pressed out as possible. Defrost in the fridge and let come to room temperature for serving.

    a slice of orange glazed pound cake on a white speckled plate with a fork.

    Practical Tips and Recipe Notes

    • If the cake batter begins to look split or curdled as you're adding the eggs, don't sweat it too much. It will come back together when you add the flour.
    • When in doubt, SCRAPE DOWN THE BOWL. If it feels like you're stopping too often to scrape down the bowl, that means you're doing it right. You don't want any ingredients to go unincorporated or you'll end up with large air bubbles or clumps in your final cake.
    • Mixing the dry ingredients on the lowest possible speed and stopping as soon as they're all combined is super important. The goal is to avoid developing gluten in the cake batter, which would make your blueberry pound cake dense and tough, with lots of trapped tunnels of air bubbles inside.
    • To keep the cake from sticking to the pan, spray the pan with non stick spray, then line with a parchment paper sling. The non-stick spray helps the paper stick to the walls of the pan. I use metal binder clips to help hold the paper in place, but this is optional.
    • If you don't have parchment paper you can grease and flour the pan by spraying it with nonstick spray or wiping it down with a paper towel dabbed with a bit of olive oil. Add about a tablespoon of flour into the pan and tap, tilt, and rotate the pan over the sink until the flour evenly coats all the sides of the pan.
    • Make sure your baking powder is fresh! If you aren't sure, it's probably not. Baking powder is good for about 6 months, after that it loses its potency. To check if it's still good, Epicurious recommends mixing 1 cup very hot tap water with 2 teaspoons baking powder: "If there’s an immediate fizzing reaction that dissipates all of the powder, you’ll know it still works. If there’s no bubbling, the baking powder is no longer potent and needs to be swapped out."
    • GLUTEN FREE/ALMOND FLOUR/WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR - Cup-for-cup gluten free flour should work just fine here. Almond flour is just ground almonds, it will not work in this cake. Whole wheat flour will make the cake very dry, I don't recommend it.

    Why Temperatures Matter

    Make sure you pay attention to the temperature directions in this pound cake recipe. If your ingredients aren't at the right temperature the cake may not rise properly!

    • If your butter is too warm, it won't incorporate enough air. If the butter is too cold, it will take much longer to cream properly.
    • If you use cold eggs, they will cause the butter to firm up in the mixer and you risk it curdling or splitting, resulting in a flat, dense, tough cake.
    • If your oven runs hot or runs cold, this can affect the cake's rise, the thickness of the crust, the texture, and the baking time. I recommend using an oven thermometer to make sure you're baking it at the right temperature!

    Why is this recipe in grams? I want to use cups!

    A kitchen scale is more accurate than cup measurements and will give you the right ratio of dry and liquid ingredients so that the cake batter behaves the way we want it to. The name of this cake is literally pound cake — it's super important that you have equal amounts of flour, butter, and sugar by weight to get the best results.

    I tested and developed this recipe using weight measurements. If I were to convert it to volume measurements, I would be using an online conversion calculator — just like you would. There's no set standard for how much "1 cup" of flour weighs (I use 120 grams, like King Arthur Baking does, but other recipe developers use as much as 150 grams as "1 cup"), which means this will produce wildly varying results. Not to mention, depending on how tightly packed or aerated your flour is, you may end up scooping way too much or way too little flour. I want you to succeed when you follow this recipe — use a kitchen scale for best results!

    📖 Recipe

    a cross section of orange pound cake.

    Orange Pound Cake

    Rebecca Eisenberg
    This fresh orange pound cake bursts with vibrant citrus flavor from the juice, zest, and flesh of just one whole orange, and boasts a tender crumb thanks to a dollop of sour cream. Baked in a standard-sized loaf pan, it’s a simple yet delightful cake that pairs perfectly with a cup of tea or scoop of ice cream. It's a slice of sunshine in every bite!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Cook Time 1 hour hr
    Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 1 loaf

    Equipment

    • Kitchen scale
    • 1 pound loaf pan (8x4 inch)
    • Small offset spatula
    • Microplane Zester

    Ingredients
      

    • 227 grams unsalted butter (65°F, softened)
    • 227 grams sugar
    • 10 grams orange zest (zest only)
    • 227 grams all-purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon diamond crystal kosher salt (use half as much of any other brand)
    • 3 large eggs (room temperature)
    • 50 grams full fat sour cream (room temperature)
    • 50 grams orange juice + flesh

    Orange Icing Glaze

    • 60 grams powdered sugar
    • 2 grams orange zest
    • 15 grams orange juice
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    Instructions
     

    • Mise en Place. Bring butter and eggs to room temperature (the butter should be cool, around 65°F, but soft to the touch, not melty or greasy).
      Measure sugar and orange zest into the bowl of your stand mixer.
      In another container, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
      In a small bowl, whisk together 50g sour cream with 50g orange juice and orange pulp/flesh. Reserve at least a quarter of the orange with the peel on and un-juiced to make the glaze later.
      Grease an 8x4" loaf pan and line with a parchment paper sling. Set aside.
    • Preheat oven to 350°F.
    • Infuse the sugar. In the bowl of your stand mixer, use your fingers to rub the orange zest into the sugar until it is orange and fragrant.
    • Cream the butter and sugar. Add the softened butter to the bowl. Beat on low speed until there's no loose sugar, then increase speed to medium and continue creaming for 3-5 minutes, pausing to scrape down the bowl and the beater at least 3 times. Properly creamed, the butter and sugar will have a fluffy, airy, and paste-like texture and pale orange color. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
    • Add eggs. One at a time, crack each egg into a small bowl (to avoid getting shells in your cake!) then dump the egg into the mixer bowl, beating on medium speed for at least 60 seconds and scraping down the bowl again before adding the next egg. Scrape down the bowl again after the last egg has been added.
    • Alternate adding dry ingredients and sour cream. With the mixer running on the lowest possible speed, add half of the dry ingredients. When they are mostly combined, scrape down the bowl and beater. Add the orange sour cream mixture and mix on low just until combined, then stop and scrape the bowl and beater again. Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix on low just until just a few streaks of flour remain. Scrape down the bowl and beater and finish mixing by hand with a spatula to prevent over mixing.
    • Bake. Scrape the batter into the parchment-lined loaf pan. Use a mini offset spatula to smooth out the batter, pressing it down into the corners and sides of the pan so that there aren't any trapped air bubbles. [OPTIONAL] Cut a ⅛-inch thin slice of a stick of butter into small sticks and arrange them in a line down the middle length of the pan to help control the crack in the top of the loaf as it bakes. Bake in the center of a 350°F oven for 60-65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a few crumbs clinging to it.
    • Cool. Remove the pan to a cooling rack. Let cool 10-15 minutes, then use the parchment sling to lift the cake out of the pan to finish cooling. Let cool completely before slicing.

    Orange Icing Glaze

    • Sift powdered sugar into a small mixing bowl. Add orange zest and juice. Whisk together until smooth. Add more juice to thin it out or more powdered sugar to thicken it.
    • Use a mini offset spatula to spread the glaze over the top of the loaf cake. Let sit to form a crust or serve immediately!

    RECIPE NOTES

    • Pay close attention to the temperature cues given in the recipe — they're very important to how the final loaf turns out! 
    • When in doubt, scrape down the bowl and beater. 
    • If you can't rub the orange zest into the sugar by hand, you can use the mixer paddle attachment to do it for you instead. 

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    1. Sue

      August 13, 2024 at 6:24 pm

      If you place eggs in hot water for 10-15 minutes as indicated in the tips, you will have hard cooked eggs. Is it supposed to say 10 to 15 seconds?

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 11:37 am

        Hot tap water, not boiling water. Regular hot water won't cook eggs that are cold from the refrigerator; it will just bring them to room temperature.

        Reply
    2. Wendy Jones

      August 13, 2024 at 7:44 pm

      Wondering where the baking soda goes in? Mentioned in the ingredients list but not in the mixing instructions.

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 11:33 am

        Ooops, that's an error! No baking soda needed!

        Reply
        • Roberta

          August 14, 2024 at 8:16 pm

          Hello,can I use cake flour instead of all-purpose flour?tq

          Reply
          • Rebecca Eisenberg

            August 14, 2024 at 8:45 pm

            I don’t recommend it! Cake flour is very different from all purpose, the recipe won’t turn out.

            Reply
    3. Julia Heyward

      August 13, 2024 at 11:36 pm

      Why are the dry ingredients measured in grams?

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 11:32 am

        For accuracy.

        Reply
    4. Julia A Heyward

      August 14, 2024 at 1:00 pm

      That doesn't help those of us who use cup or lesser amounts thereof which are also accurate. I don't understand the "accurate" comment.

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 7:01 pm

        Cup measurements are highly inconsistent and also depending on how you scoop the flour you may end up with a lot more than the recipe developer (hello, that's me) actually used which means your bake may not turn out properly. Read my post about why using a kitchen scale is worth it for more info.

        Reply
    5. Becky

      August 14, 2024 at 1:43 pm

      Can you use USA measurements, please.

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 6:59 pm

        No.

        Sincerely,
        A recipe developer in the USA

        Reply
    6. Jules

      August 14, 2024 at 3:57 pm

      The recipe lists ingredients for an orange sugar topping that I'm not seeing mentioned in the instructions, and I'm not seeing measurements for the orange glaze (although that might just be the internet browser on my phone). Would it be possible to get measurements for the glaze?

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 14, 2024 at 6:56 pm

        OMG I am so sorry. Because this is a riff on my blueberry lemon cake I duplicated that recipe card and updated it to create this recipe but clearly I missed a section! Will update that now! Thanks for pointing that out!

        Reply
    7. Heidi Coates

      August 15, 2024 at 1:12 am

      5 stars
      Thank you for giving the weight measurements. They are indeed far more accurate. That is why the professional bakers use them. I bought my little scale years ago and used it ever since.

      Reply
    8. Debbie Human

      August 18, 2024 at 8:23 am

      5 stars
      It was very nice, will make it again!

      Reply
    9. Angela

      August 21, 2024 at 10:29 am

      I want to make this look a little fancy. Can I bake it in a bundt pan?

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 23, 2024 at 10:13 am

        Yep!

        Reply
    10. Ang

      August 23, 2024 at 8:57 am

      Can this be baked in a bundt pan?

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        August 23, 2024 at 10:12 am

        Yep!

        Reply
    11. Marie Nelson

      October 16, 2024 at 3:37 pm

      It doesn't read boiling water. It reads hot water and no, they won't be hard cooked.

      Reply
    12. EllieJay

      February 12, 2025 at 10:19 am

      5 stars
      This was easy to make and delicious! I followed it exactly although used a bit more zest. My family enjoyed this so much, I can see how you could easily use the same recipe and change out the orange for other flavors like lemon poppyseed.

      Reply
      • Rebecca Eisenberg

        February 12, 2025 at 11:00 am

        I'm so glad you enjoyed the cake, Ellie! A little more zest is always a good idea 🙂 And you can definitely adapt this to make lots of other flavors — if you're looking for lemon poppyseed, you may want to check out my lemon blueberry pound cake as a base recipe, too. Happy baking!

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