Orange Bundt Cake is tender with a wonderful citrus flavor. It has a ribbon of orange zest filled sweetened cream cheese running through it making it a moist and delicious recipe.
I love to bake and I love to bake from scratch. Having said that, I also love to start a cake with a mix when my time is tight. (You can see some of my Cookie and Cake Mix creations here.)
The benefit of using cake mixes as a base for cake is it takes me slightly less time when I use a cake mix and using a cake mix gives me very consistent results every time.
You may also like these cake mix cakes.
Orange Bundt Cake
This cake starts with a mix. Additionally, Orange Bundt Cake is full of orange flavor from orange gelatin, orange juice, and orange zest. The ‘frosting’ is in the center of this cake in the form of a cream cheese ribbon running throughout the cake.
The cream cheese is spiked with orange juice, orange zest, and just enough sugar to slightly sweeten it.
The most important tip I can offer for making this cake is to liberally grease the bundt pan. As well, you’ll need to wait 45 to 50 minutes for the cake to cool before inverting it onto a serving tray. The cream cheese needs to be cool before inverting the cake or it will stick and/or the cake will come apart at the cream cheese layer.
I use this Classic Nonstick 9-1/2-Inch bundt pan for this Orange Bundt Cake.
I created a video tutorial to show you my method for making this cake. Take a quick look, it’s not very long.
Orange Bundt Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 package butter flavored yellow cake mix
- 3 ounce package orange flavored gelatin (dry mix only, I use Jello brand)
- 3 large eggs at room temperature
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup salted butter at room temperature
For the filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon orange zest
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
For the Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
Instructions
For the cake
- Grease a 9 and 1/2 inch or 10 inch bundt pan liberally with solid vegetable shortening.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Reserve 1/4 cup of the cake mix for the filling
- Add butter to the bowl of an electric mixer and mix until creamy.
For the filling
- Add eggs, cake mix, gelatin, and orange juice to butter and mix 2 to 3 minutes until everything is combined and smooth.
- Spread approximately 3/4 of the cake batter in the prepared bundt pan.
For Filling
- Combine cream cheese, sugar, orange zest, orange juice, and 1/4 cup cake mix to a small bowl.
- Cream until mixture is smooth.
- Add mixture to a ziptop bag and snip the end off.
- Add the filling on top of the first layer of cake batter.
- Top with the remaining cake batter. Bake
- Bake for 50 to 55 minutes
- Cool cake for 45 minutes before inverting on a serving platter.
For the Glaze
- Add confectioners sugar and orange juice to a bowl.
- Mix with an electric mixture until smooth
- Pour over cool cake
- Serve and enjoy
Video
Notes
Nutrition
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Anna says
I’m making this Orange Bundt cake recipe right now. The recipe lists using a 4 oz box of jello. There is no 4 oz box of jello, they only come in 3 oz or 6 oz boxes. I’ve poured the dry jello packet into a measuring cup at the 1/2 cup mark since that equals 4 oz. Fingers crossed it turns our alright!
Laurie says
My husband loved this cake!! He doesn’t eat cake but he couldn’t stop eating this one. I loved it as well. This is my favorite cake!!
Sandy says
I have never made an orange cake, but have always wanted to. Your recipe sounds really good so I am going to try it. You have wonderful recipes,thank you for sharing.
Jean Johnson says
Fabulous cake. The recipe has not been corrected though to add the Jello.
Teresa says
The recipe has not been corrected to add confectioners sugar or orange jello. Is the latter added to the cake mixture and the conf. Sugar added to the cream cheese filling?
Paula says
I’m looking at the recipe and it’s correct.
Instruction #1 under ‘For the Filling’ it says to add the gelatin
Under “For the Glaze’ #1 – confectioners sugar and orange juice…
Maybelle says
I noticed that your recipe states that 1/4 cup of butter is used. However it appeared to be a whole, 1/2 cup stick in the video. Maybe the butter I buy comes in fatter sticks than yours???
Paula says
This recipe as written is correct
Sue says
Good morning. Your recipe is missing the jello.. I read the post and then read the recipe… no jello.. then looked at the video.. Otherwise, all looks yummy.
Paula says
Thank you, sometimes I look at a post so many times and keep missing the same thing. I corrected it.
Sue says
believe me, I have done that with letters etc… Have a good day.. WE have sunshine over here in Australia… so pleased, as have had so much rain.. Maybe a good day for the Orange bundt cake..
SallyRan says
am I missing something? there is no jello shown in your ingredients but in the video it says jello? thank–ss
Paula says
Yes, I had accidently left the jello out of the recipe here. I have corrected it now. So sorry about that. I proofed it several times and didn’t catch that.
Barbara says
the video shows adding jello,but recipe does not show jello
Paula says
Hi Barbara, I have corrected the recipe, so sorry about that