orange marmelade spice cake

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Bell-View’s Taste the Fruit 1st Preserves is perfect for your morning toast but did you know that it could also be used for baking? We’ve taken and adapted this recipe to make a decadent dessert that’s dangerous to keep around your house for too long! It’s sure to satisfy your sugar cravings!

INGREDIENTS:

CAKE:

  • 1-2/3 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1/3 cup sugar

  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

  • 1/2 cup orange juice

  • 1/2 cup molasses

  • 1/3 cup canola oil

  • 1 egg

  • 2 tbsp. Bell-View Taste the Fruit 1st Orange Marmalade

 ICING:

  • ½ cup unsalted butter, softened  

  • 1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract

  • 2 cups powder sugar

  • 2 tbsp. milk

  • 2 tbsp. orange juice

  • 2 tbsp. of Orange Marmalade

DIRECTIONS

CAKE:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

  2. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.

  3. Add all wet ingredients into the dry, combine well. 

  4. Pour batter into a greased 9in. cake pan. 

  5. Bake in oven for 25 minutes. 

  6. If making a layer cake, repeat steps for however many layers that you are making.

ICING:

  1. Combine all ingredients except for orange marmalade, mix well.

  2. Once combined, add in orange marmalade. 

  3. Once cake is cool, ice to your liking. 

  4. (Double recipe for a layer cake).

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