I don’t know about you- but for me Orange Soda reminds me of Summertime. Orange Crush and even the orange creamsicles. YUMM!!!
My other favorite was the orange sliced candies eaten during the summer. Available all year round but growing up- going to my grandmothers home in N. Florida- that is when we indulged in all the yummies. So I been on a cupcake kick lately. This is what we came up with and really enjoy.
Brought the cupcakes to my book club friends and was given the thumbs up.!
Of course once they realized I used 1 lb of butter in total- they called me Paula Dean. LOL
This recipe I love because the cupcake is creamy/orangey/ and more pound cake like. YUM RIGHT???
It makes about 33 cupcakes. I might split it in 1/2 next time. I think it can easily be cut in 1/2 to make less.
Orange Crush Soda Cupcakes
350 degrees
13 – 15 minutes (convection oven)
CUPCAKE
1 cup butter
2 cup sugar
4 eggs
4 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 bottle of Orange Crush Soda (12 oz)
1 TBS fresh orange zest
- Butter is best at room temperature. Cream together your butter and sugar.
- One at a time, add in your eggs and beat for a minute more.
- Add in your sifted flour and baking soda, and alternate 1 cup of flour and some of your soda. Till you have added and blended it all together well.
- Mix in your orange zest and vanilla last.
- Pour into your cupcake liners. We use an icecream scoop that scrapes the icecream out. One hefty scoop per cupcake filled it 3/4 of the way.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes (convection oven) And 19-23 minutes regular oven. But watch them. They will not need to get golden brown. Just till toothpick inserted and removed is clean.
- Cool completely before you add your frosting/icing.
FROSTING
1 cup butter
4 cups powdered sugar
1/8 cup fresh orange juice
1 TBS orange zest
1 tsp vanilla
(Approx) 1/8 cup Orange Crush Soda
Gummy Orange Slices
- Butter at room temperature beat your butter till nicely whipped.
- Add in slowly your 4 cups of powder sugar alternating with your 1/8 cup of fresh orange juice.
- Add in your orange zest and Vanilla.
- If your frosting is too thick, I added approx. 1/8 cup of Orange Crush Soda to the frosting. Adding a little at a time till I got the consistency I wanted.
- Pipe frosting on your cooled cupcakes.
- Garnish with orange slice candy.
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Besides how yummy they look, they are beautiful. I think you should be on cupcake wars. 🙂 Love the candy on top, too.
Have a joy-filled weekend!
Drooling,
Pamela
My mouth is watering! They look wonderful! Do you think the recipe would work by making them mini to fit into the plastic push pop containers that are so hot for parties right now?!
Heavenly! You could really taste the juice and zest in the frosting. Made a big difference
This sounds absolutely yummy! I love Orange pop!
I love you but after all these yummy recipes I am sure my hips, butt and thighs won’t. They look so divine!
Soooo yummy looking…I wondered if they’d still come out if I made them gluten free????? I think I’ll try!!
I love, love your blog!!!
Looks so yummy, what a great summer recipe! I love all things orange!
Looks tasty! I shared this with a friend who is a major cupcake buff.
That sounds so delightful. I am definitely going to have to try this one.
These look delicious! The colors are perfect for a summer table. 🙂
oh dear. I don’t think I could add that to my pinterest fast enough. looks delicious!
Thank you for sharing!!! My daughter loves anything orange flavored. Can’t wait to make these for her!!!!
You are awesome!
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My daughter and I are so excited to make and share this recipe at our family picnic this weekend. We are new to cupcaking but are lovining it:)
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I wanted to know, since they’re made from scratch, are the cupcakes dense or fluffy?
These are very good, I made a 1/2 recipe that made 16 cupcakes for my son’s friend’s birthday, he loves Orange Crush pop. I forgot the orange for the zest so I used 3 drops of orange oil to ramp up the taste, I also added a few drops of orange food colouring. I had some buttercream in the freezer so I added orange oil and food colouring to it and the orange pop a little at a time until it was piping consistency.
It says to bake them in a convection oven for 13-17 minutes first could i just bake them in a regular oven or would that ruin the orange soda taste.
You can cook them in a regular oven on bake- it will take longer to bake thats all 🙂 Enjoy
Are these any good? I’m not doubting them, I just want to know if anyone has tried them.. I want to make them for my school’s bake sale. Looks tasty, though! 🙂
Also, will diet soda work just the same as regular?
*update* THESE ARE SUPER TASTY! Very fluffy. I put a little extra zest in the frosting and now the cakes taste like orange Dreamsicles… delicious! 🙂 Everyone at my school will be delighted to have one!