Baking With Booze - Orange Cake With Cointreau Recipe (2024)

30cm loaf cake

1 hr 10 min

Why Cointreau?

Cointreau is an orange-flavoured triple sec liqueur. It should be a staple in every home bar, as it is the key ingredient in many co*cktails such as; margaritas, cosmopolitans and many others. One of my go-to co*cktails is the Cointreau fizz- a combination of oranges, cointreau, soda water and mint.

The decision to bake this cake was an easy one to make for several reasons: I have an ongoing love affair with cointreau, plus I love the addition of alcohol in cakes. Finally, this recipe is basically my go-to co*cktail in a cake.

Topping the Cake:

The Icing on this cake is an Orange and Cointreau Syrup accompanied by caramelized orange slices.Not only does the syrup help to keep the cake moist, it also adds flavor which is always good! For those fancy dinners or parties, you can also add caramelized orange slices and be sure to impress your guests.

• Yield 30 cm loaf cake
• Time spent: Prep time:30Minutes Cook time:40Minutes Total time:1 hr 10 min

• 250gramsbutter(1 cup+2 tbsp)
• 150gramssugar(¾ cup)
• 5eggs
• 250gramsflour(1½ cup flour)
• ½tspsalt
• 2½tspbaking powder
• 5tbspCointreau
• ¼cuporange juice(squeezed)
• 1tbsporange rind
• 1tbspbutter for cake mold

Orange Glaze

• ½cuporange juice
• 2tbspcointreau
• ½cupsugar

Preheat oven to 170°c (338°f)

Add baking powder and salt to flour and mix .

With a a cake mixer, mix butter and sugar to a creamy mass. This will take approximately 3minutes.

Add eggs two at a time and mix on high speed between each addition.

Add flour mixture half a cup at a time, cointreau and orange rind.

Pour batter into a buttered and floured 30cm loaf pan.

Bake for 40minutes or till skewer comes out clean.

Orange Cointreau Glaze

Mix sugar, orange juice and cointreau together in a sauce pot and bring to a boil.Let it boil for about 10minutes till it turns translucent and the syrup thickens.

Poke holes into cake with skewer and pour syrup over cake and top with some orange segments.

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• KC on May 14, 2022

  Sounds delicious! Now I just need someone to come and make one for me. I will save this recipe just in case I get ambitious one day. Thanks!

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    Wanda on May 14, 2022

    Lol… that totally made me laugh, I do the same thing, I see the recipe, print it out even, but I never make them. 😑☹️

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  • Winnie Khamal Macbailey on May 15, 2022

    Im laughing so hard. 🤣 Hopefully you get ambitious enough to try it out,it is a very delicious recipe.

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  • Kathleen on May 15, 2022

    I'm with ya KC! But this one sounds so good I'm going to give it a try using a box white or yellow cake mix! EEEK! I can hear bakers now!

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• Jo Ann Puri on May 15, 2022

  Girls, if you are not disabled in any way, make the cake. You'll be glad you did. Do it for disabled people like me who's on oxygen, a continually pumped medicine and deal with true fatigue. I finally made the 2- ingredient lemon bars (Angel food cake mix and 2 jars of lemon curd). They are yummy and it was so fun to send some home with my daughter when she came to change out my medicine pump. It only took me 3 months to get up the knob to do it. If someone who bakes would stop in with samples it would thrill me.

  I'm curious as to size of pan to use and whether it needs to be greased and floured or not.

  Jo Ann P

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  • Donna Simpson Cephas on May 15, 2022

    I would also like to know the size of loaf pan...looking at equivalent charts has yielded zero info for that.

    As for greased and floured I would just do that anyway as for most cakes (or use Bakers Joy spray).

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  • Winnie Khamal Macbailey on May 15, 2022

    Hi Jo Ann. Your comment made me a little emotional. I once baked a cake for my neighbour who just had a surgery. She was so happy to the point of tears. You will be surprised at how a little act of kindness can positively impact someone.

    I uaed a 30cm loaf pan and yes I buttered and floured the pan before baking.

    Thanks 🤗

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  • Winnie Khamal Macbailey on May 15, 2022

    Hi Jo Ann! Your comment made me emotional. I remember baking a cake for a neighbour who just had surgery. She was so happy that she cried. You will be surprised at the impact a little act of kindness will have on someone.

    I used a 30 cm loaf pan and yes I buttered and floured the pan. Sorry i omitted that in the recipe. Corrections have been made.

    Thankss

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  • Liante on May 16, 2022

    ❤️❤️ Sending prayers!

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  • Gloria Casillas on May 15, 2023

    Speedy and complete recovery

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