Orange Creamsicle Cake is the recipe that Teresa makes every summer and every most nostalgic birthday celebration when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely dreamy individual orange creamsicle cake that captures every single most beloved element of the most iconic childhood ice cream treat — the most bright and the most vibrant orange, the most creamy and the most vanilla-sweet individual ice cream center — in the most beautifully moist and the most properly tender individual two-layer celebration cake format that delivers the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely nostalgic individual orange-and-cream individual flavor experience in every single forkful.
The most brilliantly clever addition of orange Jello mix to the cake batter simultaneously provides the most concentrated individual orange flavor, the most gorgeously vibrant orange color, and the most essential individual structural thickening that produces the most perfectly moist individual cake crumb, while the most beautifully whipped cream and cream cheese frosting tinted with the most gorgeous orange food coloring creates the most dreamy and the most properly creamsicle-colored individual celebration cake.
Orange Creamsicle Cake is the most easy and deeply extraordinary 1-hour 20-minute summer celebration cake made with white cake mix sour cream oil eggs orange Jello orange extract orange zest fresh orange juice baked at 350°F for 28 to 30 minutes assembled with orange vanilla cream cheese whipped cream frosting. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cake recipes and easy summer favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
This Orange Creamsicle Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely nostalgic individual summer celebration cake that uses the most brilliantly clever orange Jello mix addition to the white cake base to simultaneously provide the most concentrated orange flavor, the most vibrant natural-ish orange color, and the most essential structural moisture for the most beautifully moist individual crumb — all from the most single most convenient individual ingredient.
The creamy frosting combines two of the most complementary individual flavor elements of the most classic creamsicle — the most bright orange and the most lusciously cool vanilla cream — in the most beautifully swirled and the most properly whipped individual frosting that creates the most genuinely dreamy and the most completely extraordinary orange creamsicle individual celebration experience. Our Orange Muffins make a beautifully equally orange-vibrant and equally individually extraordinary companion for a complete and wonderful orange baking collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
For the Orange Creamsicle Cake Layers:
- 1 box (15.25 oz) White Cake Mix
- 1 package (3 oz) Orange Jell-O Mix
- ½ cup Sour Cream
- ½ cup Vegetable Oil
- 4 large Eggs, room temperature
- ½ tsp Pure Orange Extract
- Zest of 1 Orange
- ½ cup Fresh Orange Juice
For the Orange Creamsicle Frosting:
- 8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Pure Orange Extract
- 1½ cups Heavy Whipping Cream, cold
- Orange Gel Food Coloring
How to Make This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans and line with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine the white cake mix and the dry orange Jell-O powder. Add the sour cream, vegetable oil, eggs, orange extract, orange zest, and fresh orange juice. Mix on low speed until just combined, then increase to medium and beat for 2 minutes until the most smooth and the most vibrantly orange individual batter forms, cara mia.
Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans. Bake for 28 to 30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes then transfer to wire racks to cool the most completely.
For the frosting, beat the room-temperature cream cheese with the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and orange extract until the most completely smooth. In a separate chilled bowl, whip the cold heavy cream to the most stiff peaks. Gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture in two to three additions.
Divide the frosting into two portions. Tint one portion orange with gel food coloring. Leave the other portion the most pure individual white.
Assemble the layers with alternating swoops of the most orange and the most white individual frosting between the layers and over the entire exterior for the most beautifully creamsicle-swirled individual presentation.
How to Serve This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Serve cold or at room temperature for the most completely extraordinary orange creamsicle individual cake experience. The whipped cream cheese frosting is the most beautifully maintained when served within 30 minutes of removing from the refrigerator for the most properly softened and the most properly cold individual creamsicle-inspired temperature.
Garnish with fresh orange slices placed around the top edge of the individual cake for the most beautifully natural and the most genuinely vibrant individual orange garnish that showcases the most essential fresh orange character of this cake. Our Orange Muffins make a beautifully equally vibrant orange and equally individually domed companion for a complete and wonderful orange baking collection.
How to Store This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 4 to 5 days — the whipped cream cheese frosting requires consistent refrigerator temperature for the most properly maintained individual structure. Add fresh orange garnish immediately before serving.
Tips to Make This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Add the dry Jell-O mix powder directly to the dry cake mix without dissolving in water first — the dry Jell-O incorporated into the batter produces the most effectively concentrated individual orange flavor and the most beautifully vibrant individual orange color throughout the most entirely baked individual crumb.
For the most gorgeously swirled individual orange-and-white creamsicle individual frosting effect, load a piping bag with orange frosting on one side and white frosting on the other side before piping in the most dramatic individual swirled rosette pattern over the exterior of the individual assembled cake.
Helpful Notes for This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
For the most intensely concentrated individual orange character beyond the Jello mix, add the most freshly squeezed orange juice and the most freshly grated orange zest as specified — both ingredients together with the Jello mix produce the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely triple-orange-forward individual cake.
The cream cheese in the frosting serves as the most essential stabilizer for the most whipped heavy cream — without the cream cheese, a whipped cream frosting at room temperature would deflate the most quickly and lose the most essential individual structure for the most proper individual creamsicle frosting presentation.
Variation of This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Maria made a version using lemon Jello with lemon extract and lemon zest for the most completely extraordinary and the most vibrantly bright individual lemon creamsicle cake. Teresa tried a tropical version using pineapple Jello with pineapple juice in place of orange juice for the most completely extraordinary and the most tropically vibrant individual pineapple creamsicle cake.
For a layered individual dreamsicle version, fill the center individual frosting layer with orange curd alongside the creamsicle frosting for the most completely extraordinary and the most deeply intense individual orange center creamsicle cake. Our Key Lime Pound Cake makes a beautifully equally citrus-vibrant and equally elegantly glazed companion for a complete and wonderful citrus cake collection.
FAQs About This Orange Creamsicle Cake Recipe
Why use Jell-O mix in the cake batter
The dry orange Jell-O mix added directly to the cake batter simultaneously contributes three most essential individual elements — the most concentrated and the most intensely orange individual flavor from the most artificially concentrated orange flavor compounds in the Jell-O, the most gorgeously vibrant orange individual color throughout every individual crumb, and the most essential gelatin-based structural moisture retention that keeps the individual cake the most beautifully moist for the most extended individual storage period.
Can I make this without the orange extract?
Yes. The orange Jell-O mix and the fresh orange zest together provide the most sufficient individual orange character for a genuinely extraordinary orange creamsicle cake without any additional orange extract. The extract amplifies the individual orange character to the most intensely concentrated level — omitting it produces the most slightly less intensely orange but still the most beautifully flavored individual result.
Can I use Cool Whip instead of making whipped cream?
Yes. Eight ounces of thawed Cool Whip substitutes for the most freshly whipped heavy cream folded through the cream cheese base — the individual result is equally extraordinary and the most conveniently quick. The most freshly whipped heavy cream produces the most properly light and the most beautifully airy individual frosting, while Cool Whip produces a the most slightly denser but equally creamy and the most properly set individual orange creamsicle frosting.
Conclusion
This Orange Creamsicle Cake is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely dreamy summer nostalgia celebration cake that makes every birthday and every gathering feel genuinely and completely special through the most vibrant orange Jello crumb and the most beautifully swirled orange and white creamsicle frosting in every single perfectly chilled and completely irresistible orange creamsicle cake slice.
We hope it brings the same deeply joyful childhood creamsicle nostalgia and the same completely delighted table to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
Orange Creamsicle Cake The Most Easy Moist Orange Jello Fresh Zest Creamsicle Whipped Vanilla Cream Cheese Celebration Cake You Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes including cooling
- Yield: 12 to 14 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary dreamy Orange Creamsicle Cake made by preheating oven to 350°F greasing flouring and lining two 9-inch pans combining 1 box white cake mix and 1 package dry orange Jell-O powder in large bowl adding 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 cup oil 4 room temperature eggs 1/2 tsp orange extract zest of 1 orange and 1/2 cup fresh orange juice mixing on low just combined then medium 2 minutes until smooth and vibrantly orange dividing between pans baking 28 to 30 minutes until toothpick clean cooling 10 minutes then on racks completely then beating 8 oz room temperature cream cheese with 1 cup sifted powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp orange extract until smooth whipping 1 1/2 cups cold heavy cream to stiff peaks in chilled bowl gently folding into cream cheese in 2 to 3 additions dividing into two portions tinting one orange assembling with alternating orange and white frosting between and over layers. A completely perfect orange Jello creamsicle frosting celebration cake recipe.
Ingredients
1 box 15.25 oz White Cake Mix
1 package 3 oz Orange Jell-O Mix dry
1/2 cup Sour Cream
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
4 large Eggs room temperature
1/2 tsp Pure Orange Extract
Zest of 1 Orange
1/2 cup Fresh Orange Juice
8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese room temperature
1 cup Powdered Sugar sifted
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Pure Orange Extract for frosting
1 1/2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream cold
Orange Gel Food Coloring
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Grease flour and line two 9-inch pans.
2. Combine white cake mix and dry orange Jell-O powder in large bowl.
3. Add sour cream, oil, eggs, orange extract, orange zest, and orange juice. Mix low just combined. Increase to medium. Beat 2 minutes smooth and vibrantly orange.
4. Divide between pans. Bake 28 to 30 minutes until toothpick clean.
5. Cool 10 minutes. Transfer to racks. Cool completely.
6. Beat room temperature cream cheese with powdered sugar, vanilla, and orange extract until smooth.
7. Whip cold heavy cream to stiff peaks in chilled bowl.
8. Gently fold whipped cream into cream cheese in 2 to 3 additions.
9. Divide frosting. Tint one portion orange. Keep other white.
10. Assemble with alternating orange and white frosting between layers and over exterior.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cake, Summer, Birthday
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 520
- Sugar: 52g
- Sodium: 350mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 14g
- Unsaturated Fat: 12g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 62g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 6g
- Cholesterol: 110mg
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