Spice Cake from Scratch with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting | My Cake School

Fall is the season for spice cakes, and this spice cake is everything that you want in a cake- it is fluffy, moist, and has wonderful flavor! We’ve filled and frosted this delicious spice cake with our orange spice cream cheese frosting. The orange flavor in this recipe complements this spice cake perfectly, and we love to pair our spice cakes with cream cheese frostings!  Keep this recipe in mind for your fall and winter celebrations, and anytime you’re in the mood for cozy spiced goodness.  How to Make Spice Layer Cake *You can find the full, printable spice cake recipe further down, but here is a quick rundown! We use the traditional method of mixing for this spice cake, which gives us soft, fluffy cake layers. In a medium bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices.  Whisk for 30 seconds to ensure that the dry ingredients are aerated and evenly distributed. In another bowl, add the buttermilk, oil and vanilla.  Set aside. In the bowl of your mixer, add the butter and mix at medium speed until smooth.  Gradually add the white and brown sugars. Continue to mix on medium speed for 3 to 5 minutes  (a bit longer if using hand mixer) until lightened in color and fluffy. Next, add the eggs one at a time, mixing until the yellow of the yolk disappears. Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients (3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of liquid ingredients). Finally, we divided the batter between our three 8 inch cake layers and baked at 350 degrees  for 23 to  28 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Let cool in pans 5 to 10 minutes then turn out.   Freezing the Cake Layers       Frosting the Spice Cake For this spice cake recipe, we went with an easy and delicious Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting. We used it as our filling too- the flavor is SO good and you can whip up a batch in no time!  What other frostings pair well with spice cake? A simple cream cheese frosting is also a great choice, as well as our orange cream cheese frosting,  ,  and more. You can hop over to our Frosting Recipes Section for even more ideas! To decorate, I used a star piping tip 21 to create the reverse shell borders around the top of the cake. Around the sides of the cake, I just gave the frosting a textured look with my offset spatula. *Remember that cream cheese frostings like this Orange Spice frosting are softer than American Buttercream frostings. If the frosting becomes too soft as you are working with it, you can pop it in the refrigerator for a few minutes to firm it back up again. Love Fall Cake Recipes? Here are a few more of our Favorites! We’ve made many popular fall cake recipes over the years! Here are a few more of our favorites: Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting This scratch Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting is moist and fluffy and has wonderful flavor! We love this cake year-round but especially for fall and winter gatherings! For the Spice Cake Layers Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting For the Spice Cake LayersFor the Orange Spice Cream Cheese FrostingUsing your mixer, beat the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until well blended.Add the flavoring, zest, and spices. With the mixer on low speed gradually add the confectioners’ sugar and mix until it is a good piping consistency.No Cake Flour? Here is a Substitution: If you do not have cake flour, measure out 3 cups of all purpose flour (plain flour in the UK).  Remove 6 tablespoons ( 42g) and replace with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch (42g) (cornflour in the UK).  Whisk to blend the flour and cornstarch. © Melissa Diamond Category: Cakes and Cupcakes MY CAKE SCHOOL CAKE VIDEOS, RECIPES, AND MORE! Thanks so much for stopping by for this Spice Cake recipe! If you give it a try, we would love to hear what you think or to see a photo of your cake! If you love exploring new recipes, don’t miss our full collection of tried and true cake and frosting recipes from our  You can also find fun cake decorating and recipe projects in our Free Tutorials Section. Or, if you are interested in accessing our entire collection of hundreds of cake decorating tutorials, you should consider becoming a member of My Cake School!   Memberships  to our site are $30/year and will give you unlimited online access to every cake video tutorial we’ve made for as long as you are a member. This is a great, easy, and fun way to learn cake decorating from home. You can find all of the details here: Joining Information for My Cake School.  We would love to have you! No related posts.