This is an extremely quick and easy recipe to make a whole orange cake. For this super easy orange cake, just put all the ingredients in the blender and blend them away, that's how easy this recipe is. A very fast recipe to prepare with no time at all.
If you’re thinking of trying this recipe, then please READ below:
Tips To Get It Right
- Use sweet ripe orange, not bland or unripe orange.
- Don’t use orange with seeds, either buy seedless orange or pick the seeds and discard them.
- If your orange has thick skin with lots of the white part it's better to peel it and make the recipe without the skin.
- Blend the ingredients just to combine, don't blend too long, just enough for the orange to be blended through.
This Recipe Might Not Be The Best For You If...
- Using this very simple method and you’re looking for a cake with similar texture like Victoria sponge cake or extra soft type of cake.
- You don’t like the natural bitterness of freshly squeezed orange juice.
If you’re up for putting the extra work and whisking your cake, then you might want to check out my Clementine Loaf Cake recipe. It’s a simple recipe that only requires one additional task, whisking, and the result is guaranteed delicious with soft texture cake.
If you want to make it orange flavour, only change 3 clementine zest to 2 orange zest for the cake. If you want to go a bit further, make the sticky sauce also (you’ll not regret it). Replace clementine zest and juice with orange zest and juice.
More Easy Cakes
- Lemon loaf cake
- Yogurt cake
- Chocolate peanut butter banana bread (healthy)
- Cream cheese filled pumpkin bread loaf
- Olive oil orange cake
Recipe Video
Super Easy Orange Cake
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
- 1 seedless sweet orange with skin (or remove seeds if any)
- 3 large eggs , room temperature
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil (80 ml)
- ½ cup granulated sugar (100 gr), add ¼ cup (50 gr) more if you like it sweeter
Dry Ingredient
- 2 cup self raising flour * (250 gr)
* Make Your Own Self Rising Flour
- 2 cup all purpose flour (250 g)
- 3 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
Wet Ingredients
- Add all ingredients into a blender jar and blend into a smooth mixture and pour it into a bowl.
Dry Ingredient
- Add flour into the mixture and mix everything together. You can use a spatula or a hand whisk. Do not over mix.
- * If you're making your own self rising flour, mix all purpose flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and use that flour mixture instead.
Bake
- Pour the batter into a 9x5 inch (23x13 cm) loaf pan, previously greased and floured. Bake in a preheated oven on the ⅔ lower rack, using upper and lower heat, at 340ºF (170ºC) for 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and cool completely before slicing. Enjoy!
Hi Bea, can I replace veg oil with olive oil for this cake?
Hi Wai! Yes, of course you can 👍.
i like your recipe but my cake came out not moist enough, what would i have done wrong? Please give me a tip! Thanks.
Hi! If it's towards dry then you must have over baked it. All ovens are different so a portable thermometer would help to get the accurate temperature (I use it all the time). Hope it helps!
Thank you Bea, we got a great result. From Down and Under we enjoy, an easy to work with recipe with my nine year old daughter on holiday.
I love this recipe! I made this orange cake today. It was not sweet which I liked. I made a Orange glaze for the top....delicious! Thanks for sharing. Will try lemon cake next. I love anything lemon.
Awesome Cheryl! Yes, do look up my lemon loaf cake, it's one of my readers favourites. Thank you!
Hi Bea,
I noticed in the video, you used 70ml vegetable oil but in the recipe, it's 80ml. Which is the right amount? Thank you.
Hi Chris! Use 80 ml of any oil that you prefer. Have fun making it!
Very Easy. Thanks!!
Gosh what an easy recipe, just brilliant, thank you. I had some dark chocolate from Christmas in the fridge, so I broke it up and mixed it in with the mixture. Then I added the orange glaze when it was cooked. Delicious.
That sounds delicious, Lucy. Chocolate and orange is a great combo, right? Glad you liked the recipe, thank you for your feedback 😊.
Can I substitute regular flour with almond flour?
For this recipe, no. Sorry!
The easiest and best orange 🍊 cake I’ve ever made! Thank you.
Made this cake today and it turned out Fantastic but just a slightly dry. Could i add an extra orange or just th juice of an extra orange to add moisture ??
Tyia
Nares
WoW! Made this for the first time today. Incredibly easy recipe that turned out Amazing!
Thankyou from Down Under🦘🙂
I did make the cake. I followed everything you have mentioned, but it came out uncocked after almost one hour in the oven. It became so red so I was afraid that it might get burned. Yes , it tastes so good but it needed more time in the oven. Is it maybe because the battre was thick?! I have an electric oven with no fan and yet I used the temperature you mentioned.
Hope I receive a feedback from you cause I'm willing definitely to remake it.
Sorry to hear that you're having difficulties with the recipe. If you didn't substitute any ingredients and follow the exact instructions then maybe your oven temperature was too hot. Every oven is different, I'd suggest using a portable oven thermometer (like this one) for a more precise temperature reading (I use it too). Also please use the pan measurement as mentioned. Hope you'll give it another try, it's a very easy recipe as indicated by many others who've successfully made it.
Hi Bea, I bake this cake today. 40 mins up, not sure Top part of the cake not brown as yours. Still very light yellow.
I am making it for the second time now. It is super easy and delicious. I am going to try your recipe using figs, since I have a fig tree and make fig cakes. I believe it will work. Thanks.
Awesome! Let me know how it goes with figs, thank you Sudie!
One of the best orange cake I ever made... love the color, texture and taste ... thank you 😊
Looks so delicious! But I was wondering if I could replace the oranges with lemons?
Thanks Cierra! Check out my lemon loaf cake that's one of my readers' favourites. It's delish!
Super-easy to make and very yummy. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.
I'm glad that you gave it a try, thank you Pauline!
Just baked this cake. Wonderful flavour and so easy. Thank you Bea. more cake like this pls
I've baked the orange 🎂. It's super moist and delicious
Can I use Cara Cara oranges?
Recetas en español por favor!!! Por favor!!! Por favor!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Hola! Tengo todas mis recetas tanto en ingles y en español. Puedes cambiar la receta a la idoma que quieres pinchando la bandera en el menu arriba. Aqui te dejo el enlace para este receta, saludos! https://www.elmundoeats.com/es/bizcocho-de-naranja-super-facil/
EXCELLENT! Thanks for sharing:-)))
Peel included
Is it bitter?
100 g increase to 150g sugar raw, is it okay?
Guidelines on orange size and weight please
Thanks Bea😘
Hi! Please read my post above if you plan to make this, together with note of sugar in the recipe card. It's the typical orange size. Hope it helps.
Does using 2 eggs make much of a difference
Ok will try it today
Hi, if I using air fryer to bake, please advise what is the temperature and timing. Thanks
Overall nice light orange flavor(I wasn't sure how it would turn out with an orange and it's peel included). The mixture was thick when mixed together, so I added a little vanilla almond milk and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. I had to leave it in the oven an hour for it to cook completely through(middle rack at 340*). It came out golden on the outside with the right amount of texture on the inside. I also topped it with cinnamon. This recipe will be my go-to for future orange bread! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I'm happy to know that it turned out good and you liked it despite some changes. Yes, it's a no fail super easy recipe, right? Thank you so much Mav!
Should I use oranges or sweet lime
Any replacement for baking powder
Hi Bea!
I would like to make your recipe and am wondering if I could use gluten-free flour.
This is lovely with a nice sweet orange syrup 👍
Thank you Dee!
What do you think if I were to use melted butter instead of oil?
Love this cake. My local oranges are too small. The first time, I added extra fresh squeezed orange juice to get the texture and thickness of batter in the video. The second time I used two oranges. It came out delicious both times. The video was extremely helpful in getting this right. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
I'm glad to hear that, Karen! Thank you! 😀
Wonderful. The only cake I've made which is a success from the first attempt
That's great, thank you! 😀
fabulous cake so easy to make as i am not much of a baker
Right? Glad you liked it, thanks Jeans!
This was *so* easy. It turned out perfectly and is *so* delicious
Right? Glad that you liked it, thanks Colleen!
The cake was amazing!
Looks great! Can I use oven toaster?
How easy and tasty! I slightly changed the portions (2 eggs, one orange, 1/5 cups flour) but otherwise followed the recipe. I didn't know what to except but this cake turned out pretty yummy. My orange wasn't very sweet and I should have added slightly more sugar but this cake is still one of the simplest I've made and yet smells heavenly and tastes great! I'm definitely going to make it more often and play around the recipe a bit 🙂
I'm happy that you liked it, thank you Shiva! 😍
If you taste/sample the wet ingredients before mixing in the dry ingredients, you can gauge whether or not you'll want to add any more sugar. It's preference, and "to taste" in my opinion.
Thank you for sharing this lovely recipe. It was quick and easy to make resulting in a lovely subtle orange cake. The cake was light, tender and delicious. I used a cara cara orange in the recipe and next time I will add 2 oranges. BK
Hi Gerry! Yes, it's super easy and yummy, right? Do let me know how it goes with 2 oranges. Thank you so much! 😍
Super easy to make and very tasty ! I made it twice already using the same ingredients as in the recipe ❤️
I'm glad that you liked it. Thanks for your feedback Borana! 😍
Its was great but it was darker from inside browinsh color
I tried this orange cake and it came out perfectly cooked. I would just like to add a little more sugar next time I make it ( added 100gms) and maybe a half an orange extra for that extra orangy fragrance. Please suggest.
As a begginer , I was petrified getting around baking and I love cakes . But I was so joyous to discover that baking can be fun and easy . Thanks for making it so simple and ofcourse DELICIOUS.
Squeezed lots of oranges for juice. Had lots of pulp left so used that instead of a whole orange and used Stevia instead of sugar as hubby is diabetic. It worked well didn't go brown in the top so used some juice reduced it and painted it on the top. Delicious am always Squeezing oranges so will definitely make this again. Thank you
Hi, I did it exactly like the recipe but it cam out chewy (like gum) any idea what I did wrong?
Thanks
You might have put too much oil, and/or the flour wasn't self raising. It happened to me in the past too.
If I use flour instead of self raising flour, how many tsp of baking powder and salt do I have to use?
Per 1 Cup of flour, add 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder & 1/4 tsp salt. Those ratios are per "Taste of Home" which is a very trusted source.
My family loved it! Really easy to make with very little amount of ingredients!
Thank you Suna! XOXO
Hello bea..i'm just going to ask..what if we don't have a vegetable oil or olive oil here?what type of oil would be a great alternative?thank you
Hi Laarni! Any vegetable oil could do, sunflower, corn, canola, etc. I would try to go with one with no strong flavor.
Gracias, Bea , por una receta tan sencilla, rápida .....y deliciosa! Le he añadido lágrimas de chocolate como las de las cookies y ha salido riquísimo. A mi marido y a mis hijos les ha encantado. ¡Estoy deseando probar más recetas tuyas!
Hola Rocío! Me alegro que te haya gustado la receta! Muchísimas gracias, saludos!
Hello! I would like to use all purpose flour for this recipe. How much baking soda should I add?
Very easy to make. I glazed it (powdered sugar and orange juice). Definitely needs the glaze. Will make again and will add cranberries and walnuts. Fun concept!
Hi Angie! Thanks for giving the recipe a try and yes, do adjust it to your liking 🙂
Hello! Was wondering if we could sub vegetable oil with olive oil or butte?
Hi Jessica! Yes, you can use olive oil. Add 25% more if you're using melted butter. Hope it helps.
I tried making this cake for tea this afternoon. It turned out well Bea. My wife and our daughter loved the orange cake. Such a simple and easy to do recipe. Thanks very much, our compliments and best wishes to you and your hubby. We visited Barcelona, Zaragoza, Madrid, Montserrat, Granada, Seville and headed to Lisbon by coach on a tour to Spain and Portugal in 2016. Stay well and cheers. Dason, Shoba n Odelia.
Oh I'm so excited to hear that! Yes it's a super duper easy one. Those places are just wonderful right? And we've yet to go to Montserrat even though we went several times to Barcelona (how embarrassing is that? haha!). Warm wishes to you and your family, thank you so much Dason!
Tried it and I like it so much. Which frosting would go well with this recipe.
We are about to make this - wish us luck
Lui & Luka
Good luck! Hope you guys like it! 🙂
OMG we have made 2 more since AND will make again today but adding Canadian Maple Syrup and milk and white chocolate bits‼️
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your touch to it!
I made it and loved it! Now have to bake more for friends! It's so easy and de!icious. Thanks for such a unique recipe.
Yeay! I'm happy to hear that, thanks Jeannette!
What a great recipe! So quick, so easy, so delicious! Thank you. This is a real gem.
Right? Thank you so much Meera!
Simple and delicious 🙏
Muchas gracias Franco! 🙂 🙂
Could I double this recipe and bake it in a loaf pan?
Hi! This recipe is already for a loaf pan (please refer to the measurement in the recipe card). Thanks!
Do have one similar for lemons?
This is a super easy n yummy cake recipe I've ever come across. Thanks Bea 🙂
Thank you for making it, Deepti! 🙂
This orange cake really is super easy i made it and my family loved it
Happy to hear that, thank you so much Alison!
Se ve deliciosa la estoy haciendo pero no tenia arina blanca y la hice con whole weat flour pero note q la textura de la masa se ve suelta tu reseta y la mia un poco mas compacta porq sera. Espero q salga rica. Gracias pero voy a intentar hacerla con la misma arina. Pero dos cups es bastante. Gracias
From the moment i saw this recipe I don't do any other cake... Just love how easy it is made and how tasty it is. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much Stella!
If I don’t have self raising flour. What kind of flour should I use， and do i need to put baking powder or baking soda... thanks
Hey Alexis! For this recipe you can use 2 cup all purpose flour + 3 tsp baking powder + 1/4 tsp salt. Hope it helps.
Any replacement for baking powder
How can substitute eggs i am vegan measurement of eggs substitute
Hi Shiny, I've never made this vegan (nor an expert in it) but somebody made it using banana. I did write a post about egg substitutions that perhaps you can choose the options from. Here is the post. Hope it helps.
I love the taste of this cake. It came out very good. Thank you! <3 🙂
And it's super easy to make 😉 Thank you Railey! 🙂
I made this recipe. But I only used rough measurements.
I blended 2-3 orange, and added 2 pottles of yoghurt and added vanilla essence and added yellow food coloring.
I baked in plastic muffin mini cake moulds and it was ready after 20mins.
I brushed orange juice on the cooling mini cakes and they tasted really nice. I used 3 eggs. And enough flour to where it was not thick but not running mixture.
Very happy with the result. Maybe a bit too much sugar I think I used but still very nice.
Glad to know you like it Gilbert. You can rate the recipe selecting the stars if you want when leaving a comment. That helps me a lot. Thanks!
Thabks Bea!
5stars from me!
I have to say, I have tried a lemon cake recipe previously, but the orange cake I actually really love. I made a mixture probably 3 times your recipe and it was all quickly eaten by friends and family. This will now be a regular treat and I am not a regular cook, I just like to treat my partner. So thankyou for your wonderful whole orange skin and all recipe. Its the best yet!
Thank you so much for the support Gilbert! Happy to know you and your loved ones like it 😊
Hi bea ! Loved this cake so much! It tastes amazing,sweet and juicy. Thank you so much bea😊💕
That's great Salwa, I'm always happy to hear that. Thank you so much! 🙂 🙂
Hi. I make this recipe out of curiosity due to the fact that the whole orange with skin is included( as i 've known its only part of the zest skin). So anyways, holly molly it come out so good not so sweet and not bitter.😁 thank you for sharing your recipe
made it. not bitter at all. delicious and easy. thumbs up. thanks.
That's awesome Railey! Thanks for the love!
I made it like the recipe! Delicious! Thank you Bea!
I'm happy to know that, thank you so much Zinat! 🙂
Perfect exactly as good looking and delicious as it looks in the video ... Super easy and great
Thank you so much Pouran! XO
Hi Bea,
I wish to make this cake. The cake looks amazing. Can you please tell me approximately how big the orange should be? If you can mention the quantity in weight, it will be great.
Thanks!
Hi there. The orange is an average size of an adult's fist. I would say around 4.5 to 5.3 oz (130 to 150 gr). If you're thinking of making this cake, I would recommend you to first read my tips on how to get it right in the post above. Happy baking and thank you! 🙂
Hi Bea,
I tried this recipe. I used 140g of oranges. It turned out delicious.. little different texture as you mentioned.
Thanks for the recipe!
Hi! I'm happy to know that you've made and liked it. Thanks for the love!
Is the cake moist and sof, not too oily?
Hola! Quiero agradecerle por sus recetas,todas se ven deliciosas!...y bueno yo preparé está receta tres veces porque me encantó y tuvo muy buena aceptación y muchos cumplidos.
La última vez lo preparé con mandarina porque mis naranjas estaban muy ácidas, y quedó de maravilla, la mandarina con su sabor quedó genial.
Una receta super fácil , práctica y rapidisima .
Seguiré disfrutando de sus recetas y ahora voy por el panettone , que se ve fantástico.
Felicitaciones!
Saludos desde Chile.
Hola Patricia! Me alegro mucho que te haya gustado la receta, con mandarina suena genial! A mí también me encanta porque es una receta muy rápida y fácil. Espero que te guste el panettone y te aviso también tengo una receta de mini panettone con chocolate. Muchas gracias por dejarme tu mensaje y que tengas un fin de semana maravilloso. Un saludo!
Hola! Me encanta la receta se ve fácil pero mi duda es cuánto levadura o polvo de hornear lleva?