Add the zest and vanilla extract to the sugar mixture and whisk until combined. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Isn’t this fun?Ĭombine the sugar and eggs. Simply substitute the zest, juice, and marmalade accordingly. Can you spell d.i.v.i.n.e.?īefore we get started, let me also add that you can make three alternative versions of this cake: Lemon, Lime, and Grapefruit. Two whole tablespoons of fresh orange zest are nestled within the cake and the cream cheese frosting incorporates freshly squeezed orange juice and orange marmalade. The buttermilk cuts down on fat while adding a refreshing tang and creating a moist and tender crumb. Within 5 minutes I was whipping up a new creation: an Orange Buttermilk Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting! Buttermilk and oranges…oh, yes! While I was tempted to just make a sweet orange buttermilk drink like the kind I would buy in Germany, I decided to go a different direction. My eyes next caught hold of some oranges I had on the bottom shelf. I was in the mood for something sweet and fresh. So, I was looking at this jug of buttermilk in my fridge today, craving that fruity buttermilk from Germany.

It’s much milder for one thing.) I used to love getting a carton of cold, refreshing berry or citrus-flavored buttermilk and drinking it in the car on the way home from a grocery trip. (German buttermilk tastes significantly different than what you buy over here in the U.S. You can go into any grocery store in Germany and find pint-sized cartons of delicious flavored buttermilk – all kinds of different fruity flavors. Germany makes the best flavored milk drinks (Mueller Milch), including flavored buttermilk. One small, but fond item that came to mind was triggered by seeing a jug of buttermilk in my fridge. Talking to her got me thinking about many of the things I miss from back home in Europe. I was just talking to one of my best childhood friends, Steffi, from Germany.

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