From orange ice cream to orange cakes, these are the best orange desserts that you’ll absolutely want to try the next time you’re in the kitchen.
Orange is a delicious dessert component, able to be used in so many different ways, whether you like your desserts with orange hot or cold, baked or unbaked, and filled with chocolate or opting for more tropical flavors.
Enjoy this list of the best orange desserts to make sure that you try some new recipes and add some new ingredients to your pantry.
Every home baker needs this list, and if you make sure to bookmark it to come back to later, you can keep those orange desserts coming!
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Best Orange Desserts
These are the best orange dessert recipes, including desserts with oranges like orange cupcakes, orange cake, orange scones and more!
Orange Upside Down Cake
This Orange Upside Down Cake is a tender orange olive oil cake with orange slices that candy in the bottom of the pan as the cake bakes. Once done, the cake is inverted to reveal the beautiful oranges!
Mandarin Orange Posset Tart
The best make ahead dessert! A creamy and refreshing posset made with heavy cream and fresh mandarin oranges, in a whole wheat tart crust.
Orange Juice Cake
This orange juice cake is bursting with citrus flavour! It’s a one bowl bundt cake that goes so well with a cup of hot tea or coffee and it’s so easy to make.
Easy Orange Muffins with Zesty Orange Glaze
This easy recipe for Orange Muffins is perfect if you love the bright and tangy flavor of fresh orange juice and zest. It’s also super simple to bake.
Creamy Orange Jello Salad - Little Sunny Kitchen
Orange Jello Salad is creamy, tangy, and sweet, packed with juicy mandarin oranges, fluffy marshmallows, and flakes of coconut. It's quite possibly the easiest dessert you'll ever make.
Best Soft Orange Cookies with Icing
An easy recipe for soft, cake-like Orange Cookies featuring fresh orange juice and zest, You'll love the bright citrus flavors in this cookie recipe.
2-Ingredient Orange Angel Food Cake
Mandarin Orange Angel Food Cake is incredibly moist and delicious and, hands-down, the easiest cake you’ll ever make. It comes together in 5 minutes with two simple ingredients: angel food cake mix and mandarin oranges.
Orange Creamsicle Smoothie
This Orange Creamsicle Smoothie comes with a double dose of creamy and citrusy goodness! A deliciously refreshing orange smoothie with a creamsicle dunked right in.
Orange Sherbet
An easy orange sherbet, with no need for eggs and no cooking time. This tastes like an orange creamsicle and needs just three ingredients!
Date And Orange Scones
Date and orange scones are flecked with bits of chopped dark chocolate. They make a gorgeous winter breakfast treat, snack, or dessert!
Brown Butter Orange Cardamom Layer Cake Recipe ~ Barley & Sage
This brown butter orange cardamom layer cake is sandwiched with layers of fluffy honey brown butter buttercream and garnished with dried orange slices! It's light, super flavorful, and sure to impress!
Vegan Whole Orange Cake
Vegan orange cake using a WHOLE orange including the rind just like the classic Sicilian orange cake. This cake is made with only 5 ingredients and is also gluten-free, oil-free, eggless and flourless!
Vegan Blood Orange Upside Down Cake
This upside-down vegan blood orange cake is fluffy, tender and melts in your mouth. It uses only 6 ingredients, can be made gluten-free and is perfect for morning or afternoon tea!
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
These chocolate and orange cupcakes are made with soft and tender sponge and topped with silky-smooth chocolate cream cheese frosting. They're also decorated with a candied orange peel for an eye-catching treat that everyone will love.
Healthy Cranberry Orange Muffins
Packed with bright flavors of citrus and cranberries, Healthy Cranberry Orange Muffins are an easy holiday healthy breakfast idea or snack! Yogurt gives these muffins both a moist and light texture while whole wheat (or spelt) flour adds fiber.
Classic Orange Madeleines
Buttery soft sponge fragranced with orange zest and baked in their signature shell design then dipped in an orange glaze for more citrusy goodness. These Orange Madeleines are sublime.
Orange Chocolate Bundt Cake
This recipe stands the test of time as one of the most delicious marble cakes with that wonderful combination that is orange and chocolate. It keeps well and freezes wonderfully, so you can make it ahead.
Orange Ricotta Cheesecake - no crust!
A fantastic 7-ingredient ricotta cheesecake. Soft and very creamy, it leaves the most wonderful aroma in your kitchen, lasts for several days, and cuts like a dream.
cara cara orange poppyseed muffins
Change up your usual muffin game with these scrumptious Cara Cara Orange Poppyseed Muffins! Bright and fresh thanks to the orange juice and zest, and the secret ingredient of ricotta makes these super soft and tender.
orange dark chocolate sweet rolls - The Baking Fairy
These Orange Dark Chocolate Rolls make for the best breakfast treat! Fluffy and irresistible, they’re stuffed with sweet orange preserves and bittersweet chocolate chips for the perfect balance of flavors.
Coconut Clementine Mini Loaf Cakes
Fresh, soft and moist, these mini loaf cakes are packed with citrus and coconut cream and are so simple to make. For ultimate flavor, FRESH juice is a must!
Orange Loaf Cake (Vegan)
This delicious vegan orange loaf cake is bursting with fresh orange flavor. Made with pantry staple ingredients, it’s moist, fluffy and light.
Orange Tartlets
Sweet, creamy and crunchy, these Orange Tartlets are the perfect little treat for a party, birthday, Holiday dessert table or afternoon tea. These Mini Orange Tarts combine homemade Mini Tartlets Shells and a simple yet flavourful Orange Curd filling.
French Orange Tart
This French Orange Tart Recipe makes a deliciously fresh Winter dessert. It combines a Sweet Shortcrust Pastry (Pâte Sucrée) and a simple Orange Cream Filling (Orange Crémeux). A perfect dessert for a dinner party or for the Holidays!
Chocolate Orange Brownies
These super easy Dark Chocolate Orange Brownies are deliciously fudgy and decadent. They are packed with fresh Orange and intense Dark Chocolate flavours to create an irresistible treat.
Cranberry Orange Cake
Loaded with fresh cranberries and packed with orange flavor, this Cranberry Orange Cake with cream cheese frosting is a hit for any occasion!
Blood Orange Quick Bread
A unique, sweet, and zesty quick bread that couldn't be easier! Blood orange, with its "raspberry-like" citrus notes makes the perfect addition to this wintery gluten-free & vegan quick bread!
Orange Blossom Bundt Cake
This orange bundt cake is impossibly moist with just the right amount of tang and sweetness.
Mimosa Tart
This mimosa tart tastes like it's time for brunch! With it’s bright candied oranges, boozy champagne filling and to-die-for graham cracker crust, what’s not to love?
Chocolate Babka Recipe with Orange and Cardamom
This buttery, soft, and fluffy Babka recipe is a decadent cross between enriched bread and cake with a luscious chocolate swirl.
Orange popsicles
These orange popsicles are bright and refreshing. With just two ingredients and no refined sugar they are a great healthy treat the whole family can enjoy.
Koulourakia - Easy Greek Easter Orange Cookies
These traditional orange Koulourakia, or Greek Easter cookies, are a family recipe using both the juice and zest in a not-to-sweet treat that pairs perfectly with tea or coffee any time of year.
Whole Orange Cake - made in a blender
The easiest and most delicious whole orange cake ever! It's made with a whole orange, including peel, pulp and juice.
Chocolate Covered Orange Peels
A great way to use orange peels is to make chocolate covered orange peels at home. Orange peels are first boiled in water and then boiled in sugar syrup to make candied orange peels. Candied orange peels are then dipped in melting chocolate.
Dairy-free Orange Creamsicle Pie
If you love creamsicles (or dreamsicles) you'll love this No Bake Dairy-free Orange Creamsicle Pie with Oreo Cookie Crust! This delicious dairy-free dessert is so rich and creamy that you'd never know it's dairy-free.
Orange Polenta Cake (gluten free)
This delicious golden gluten-free Orange Polenta Cake is moist, rich and bursting with zesty orange flavor. It’s easy to make as it has no layers, no filling and no icing.
Easy, Homemade Slice and Bake Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookies Recipe
These chocolate orange shortbread cookies are so easy to make and incredibly delicious! Plus, they're eggless and can easily be made vegan!
Orange Breakfast Muffins
These orange breakfast muffins make a great breakfast or treat. They’re healthy, sweet and delicious.
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