Creamsicle Yogurt Snack Cake.
This creamsicle snack cake is dreamy! A tender orange cake made with greek yogurt is blanketed by a vanilla cream glaze. It’s the ideal breakfast treat or afternoon snack!
Snack cake time!
This creamsicle snack cake is a tender orange cake with a creamy vanilla glaze that is totally appropriate to eat for breakfast. Or a snack. Or a bedtime treat! Really, you choose. But cake is just better when it’s SNACK CAKE.
Definitely feels like you have a more legit reason to eat it. We all need snacks sometimes!
Sure, it may be dessert masquerading as a snack, but I don’t see anyone complaining!
Plus, it’s made with yogurt. So… you know, health!
I love using sour cream or greek yogurt in my cakes. It adds such an incredible tender crumb that is difficult to find with another ingredient.
This is the best way to celebrate the end of citrus season. Oranges are so wonderful right now, you can get the most delicious zest and juice from those babies. Even though I want to eat them plain (my kids’ current favorite fruit!), I’ll steal a little bit of juice and zest for this recipe. It’s worth it.
This snack cake is packed with citrusy orange flavor and topped with a vanilla cream icing that melts into the cake. It’s almost like a vanilla glaze, bringing the whole creamsicle flavor to the top.
I’ve made a few iterations of this snack cake in previous years – a grapefruit one and an aperol spritz one specifically! And I can say that they really work well with citrus flavors. They are so soft, tender and dreamy.
And the icing on top… perfection. It’s just a thin layer, nothing too rich and is ideal for a snack cake.
THis is so easy to make because it can happen in one bowl!
First, zest a bunch of oranges and mix that zest in with the sugar. This will infuse the cake in the best way.
To that sugar, I add some butter and sugar, a few eggs and vanilla.
Then I mix together the dry ingredients and stir them right into the wet ingredients. Don’t overmix, because this is how we get that very tender moist snack cake.
There is something about a snack cake that screams “bake me in a square pan!” so that’s what we do. I bake it in a 9×9 inch pan but you could also use an 8×8 and cook a few minutes longer.
While the cake bakes, I make the glaze. Powdered sugar, cream, vanilla extract, a touch of orange juice – that’s it. When I say that this tastes like an orange julius from the mall in the 90s… it absolutely does!
I spread it on the cake and it blankets the sides and is just perfect. The cake is already so moist and reminds me of a juicy orange. This just adds to it!
It’s a delightful little weekend treat if you need one!
Creamsicle Yogurt Snack Cake
Creamsicle Snack Cake
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh grated orange zest
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup plain greek yogurt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
vanilla cream glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated orange zest
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9x9 inch pan with nonstick baking spray.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, stir together the sugar and grapefruit zest with a fork until combined.
- To the same large bowl, whisk in the butter. Stir until the butter and sugar mixture is smooth. Whisk in the eggs, one at a time. Whisk in the greek yogurt and vanilla extract.
- Add the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Pour the batter in the greased 9x9 inch pan.
- Bake for 30 to 32 minutes or until the cake is set. Cool completely, then drizzle the glaze on top.
vanilla cream glaze
- Whisk together all ingredients until combined, smooth and drizzle-able. If it’s too thick, add more orange juice 1 teaspoon at a time. If it ends up too thin, stir in more powdered sugar until it is thick enough. Stir in the zest. Pour the glaze over the cake and spread it to cover the top. Let it sit for 10 minutes before slicing and serving!
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5 Comments on “Creamsicle Yogurt Snack Cake.”
Just letting you know that under the heading “instructions” – part 3 should read “orange” – not “grapefruit”.
Thanks!
For the icing, the cream and vanilla are not in the instructions
Would the measurements be the same if using coconut flour?
Made this today with my daughter, guys it’s sooo good.
This cake is SO so good. I recommend not substituting full fat greek yogurt for non-fat because I think it made the cake a little dry (barely, but I will definitely use full fat next time… I was just using what I had on hand).