Orange Coffee Cake from Scratch with Walnuts
Amazingly Soft Orange Cake from scratch is flavored with orange juice, zest, ground walnuts and a crisp orange sugar topping. It is simple, Moist, Tender and is perfect with tea or coffee.
Servings: 1 8-inch cake
Ingredients
Dry ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup walnuts
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Wet ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- zest of one orange
- 2 eggs, large
- ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Orange sugar topping
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- ¼ cup walnuts, finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 8-inch round cake pan with non-stick cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Into a food processor, combine all dry ingredients (flour, walnuts, baking powder, baking soda and salt). Process for one minute and 30 seconds, until finely ground. Transfer mixture to a bowl and keep aside.
- Into the same (now empty) processor, add butter, sugar and orange zest (from one orange). Process for 45 seconds. Add both eggs and process for few seconds until smooth (scrape the sides of the processor to mix in any butter sticking to the sides).
- Add half the ground flour mixture, process for 10 seconds, then orange juice, process for 10 seconds and then finish off with remaining flour mixture and process for additional 10 seconds, until combined.
- Transfer batter into the prepared pan, spread evenly and sprinkle orange sugar on top.
- Bake in the middle rack of the oven for 36-41 minutes, until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes clean.
- Place pan on a wire rack to cool (we usually start digging in while still warm). YUM.
To make orange sugar topping
- Mix 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon orange zest in a small bowl with your finger tips, until zest is evenly distributed. Stir in finely chopped walnuts.
Notes
While zesting orange, make sure you get only the outer orange part and not the white inside.
Walnuts need not be toasted.
Use only freshly squeezed orange juice and not store bought.