Orange Creamsicle Cake Bites are delicious bite-sized treats that start with a cake mix! The easy orange glaze soaks into the bottoms, making these little cupcakes even more incredible.
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Earlier this year, I made a wonderful recipe for Little Lemon Drops that is absolutely amazing and I decided it was time to modify the recipe a little bit to create these little orange bites. The results? The orange ones are just as addictive as the lemon ones – they are soooo yummy! And since they are so little, you can justify eating a bunch of them. Right? I think I’m going to make orange, lemon and maybe try some strawberry ones and serve them at Easter since they are so perfect for spring!
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What are Orange Creamsicle Cake Bites?
This recipe for Orange Creamsicle Cake Bites actually starts with an orange cake mix! You add a few basic ingredients to the cake mix: a box of vanilla pudding, eggs, sour cream or yogurt, and milk. That’s it!
Bake the mini cupcakes, then I like to dunk them in my orange glaze upside down. The glaze absorbs into the mini cupcakes better when they’re inverted. This is a simple but delicious recipe that everyone goes crazy over. The recipe makes a ton of cake bites so there will be plenty to share at your next barbecue or potluck!
Ingredients in Orange Creamsicle Cake Bites
Orange cake mix – The mix should be about 15.75 ounces. It has gotten much harder to find orange cake mixes, so if you can’t find one, no worries! You can use a white cake mix and add 1 tsp of orange extract and a few drops of orange food coloring instead.
Instant vanilla pudding mix – Use a small box (3.4 ounces) and make sure the pudding mix is the instant kind. Adding pudding mix to the recipe really improves the consistency of the cupcakes!
Eggs – You will need 4 large eggs for the recipe.
Sour cream or yogurt – Sour cream works great, but I usually use plain or vanilla yogurt – either option works great!
Milk – I almost always use 1% milk because that’s what I have on hand, but any type of milk works well. Even non-dairy options are just fine!
For the glaze, you will need:
Powdered sugar – Lots of powdered sugar makes the glaze sweet just the way we like it!
Butter – Just a little bit of melted butter helps to make the glaze rich and buttery.
Cream cheese – Just two ounces of softened cream cheese adds so much flavor and creaminess to the glaze.
Orange juice – You’ll need about 1/4 cup of orange juice. Any kind will work just fine!
Milk – Again, any type of milk works great! If you want a thicker glaze, you can even use cream if you prefer.
Hot water– Adds the extra liquid needed to make the right consistency for the glaze.
How to make Orange Creamsicle Bites
Preheat the oven to 325° F. Coat mini muffin tins with cooking spray. This recipe makes 75 mini cupcakes so I ended up baking 3 batches in my mini cupcake pan that holds 24 cupcakes.
Beat all of the ingredients in a large bowl with an electric mixer for several minutes until blended and smooth.
Fill each muffin hole about 1/2 way full. I used a small cookie scoop and it worked perfectly! Bake each pan for about 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool the pan on a wire rack for about 2 minutes and then turn the muffin pan over on a wire rack so that all the muffins are upside down. Once all of the bites have been cooked you can make the glaze.
HOW TO MAKE SIMPLE ORANGE GLAZE
To make the easy orange glaze that you’ll dip each mini cupcake into, you first want to place wire cooling racks over waxed paper. This will minimize cleanup a ton!
Beat the glaze ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth.
Dip each mini cupcake into the glaze upside down. The bottom side of cupcakes is softer and absorbs the glaze so much better. Set the cupcakes on a separate cooling rack, keeping them inverted. So the cupcake bottoms are now the tops!
Let the orange cake bites cool for 10-15 minutes, until the glaze is set. Make sure to eat a few before placing them out for others or you’ll never get to try one!
ORANGE CREAMSICLE CAKE BITES
Ingredients
Cake Bites
- 1 box Orange Supreme cake mix
- 1 pkg 3.4 oz instant vanilla pudding mix
- 4 large eggs
- 1 ¼ cups sour cream
- ½ cup milk
Glaze
- 3½ cups powdered sugar
- 4 Tbsp. butter melted
- 2 oz. cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup hot water
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 Tbsp orange juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325. Coat mini muffin tins with cooking spray. (I used almost 3 full pans of 24).
- Beat the cake ingredients in a large bowl with an electric mixer for several minutes until blended and smooth.
- Fill each muffin hole about 1/2 full. I used a small cookie scoop and it worked perfectly!
- Bake for about 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the pan on a wire rack for about 2 minutes and then turn the muffin pan over on a wire rack so that all the muffins are upside down. Cool completely and once all the batter is cooked, you can make the glaze.
- Place the wire racks over waxed paper. Beat the glaze ingredients in a medium bowl until smooth.
- Dip muffins in glaze to coat the bottoms (which are now the tops!) and the sides and let the excess drip off back into the bowl. Place each orange bite back on the wire racks until the glaze is set.
- Make sure to eat a few before placing them out for others or you’ll never get to try one!
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What can I use as a sour cream substitute?
If you don’t have sour cream on hand, you can simply switch it out for plain Greek yogurt. The two are easily interchangeable in recipes with little to no differences. Regular yogurt could possibly work, but it can make the batter too wet and also throw off the results- I haven’t personally tried, so I cannot confirm how regular yogurts hold up.
CAN YOU FREEZE ORANGE CREAMSICLE CAKE BITES?
I recommend you freeze the mini cupcakes baked, but not dipped in the glaze. Store the cupcakes in an airtight container or freezer bag for up to 3 months in the freezer. Once you’re ready to serve them, let them thaw on the countertop, then proceed with the instructions for making the glaze and dipping the cupcakes.
Where can I find the orange cake mix?
You can find this cake mix at your local Walmart and other retailers online. For best results, I recommend checking Duncan Hine’s Find Near Me feature to find your closest retailer. If you have no luck, you could also use a box of yellow cake mix and simply add 1/2-1 tsp of orange extract to the recipe along with some orange food coloring for the desired color.
More tasty Cake Recipes to try soon:
- LEMON JELLO CAKE
- CHERRY LIMEADE POKE CAKE
- 3-INGREDIENT STRAWBERRY CUPCAKES
- APPLE FRITTER CAKE
- SHIRLEY TEMPLE BUNDT CAKE
- RASPBERRY BUTTERMILK CAKE
- GLAZED MINI STRAWBERRY CUPCAKES
- BLUEBERRY LEMON CAKE ROLL
- LEMONADE BUNDT CAKE
- BUTTERY CHERRY CAKE
- KEY LIME BUNDT CAKE
- STRAWBERRY CAKE MIX CAKE BALLS
- EASY PINEAPPLE BUNDT CAKE
- WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY BUNDT CAKE
Orange Creamsicle Cake Bites are delicious bite-sized treats that start with a cake mix! The easy orange glaze soaks into the bottoms, making these little cupcakes even more incredible.
Erin @ Simple, Sweet & Savory says
YUM! I LOVE orange creamsicle anything and these little bites look so yummy and cute! Pinning!
Kristen & Musings of an Average Mon says
I love orange cream sicles and this recipe sounds amazing. Found from pin n tell link party
Mary says
Could you use all vanilla yogurt instead of sour cream?
Nellie says
I’ve never tried it, but I’m guessing it would work just fine. Greek yogurt has a closer consistency to sour cream so that would probably be my top choice, but any type of yogurt would probably work too! Let me know if you try it!
Lisa says
It is very difficult to find the orange cake mix, I finally found it on ebay,2 boxes $ 11, yikes. Waiting for it to come tomorrow. Have they quit making this cake mix, do you know? Hard to find in Nebraska.
Nellie says
Yikes, that is a little bit steep for cake mix! I’m glad you found it though – I haven’t looked for it for a while! I do know that I always had better luck finding it at Walmart, but I’ll have to do some research and let you know if I figure out what’s going on with orange cake mix these days!
Lee Ann Carr says
I gave this 4 stars because the recipe was so easy to make, it made a lot, and it was easy to transport. My husband (who doesn’t like sweets) thought these were delicious. I didn’t give it 5 stars because although the cake was light and airy, it didn’t have a very strong orange flavor. I even used fresh-squeezed OJ. I will make this again (for the reasons listed above) but I might try with some orange extract for a more pronounced orange flavor. Also thought these might taste good filled with a stabilized whipping cream. I followed the recipe exactly this time. Next time, I will probably make some edits.
Christine says
Found cake mix at Big Lots. Also pineapple cake mix too. You never know what you will find there. And if you see it you better buy it then
Nicole says
They do have a lot of variety in store
Karen says
You published this recipe in 2015 when I think cake mixes were 18.5 oz. They are now 15.5 oz. Is there an adjustment to make this recipe work correctly? TYIA
Nellie says
I’ve made the recipe recently and it still works just fine! The hard part is finding the orange cake mix…that used to be a lot easier a few years ago!