Sweet Orange Creams Recipes

Bridal showers can be a whole load of fun especially when it comes to planning out the menu. Bridal shower food can take a deep cut out of the pocket, what with all the different courses- starting from appetizers and ending with desserts. It is for this very reason that a whole lot of homemade delicacies have come into prominence on bridal shower menus. However, it is always difficult to prepare desserts. On this page, we talk about one such savory- sweet orange creams!

Sweet Orange Creams for Bridal Shower

There are many uses of one sweet orange at bridal showers. You may use a dash of the cream as topping for vanilla ice cream, sundaes, jellies, and vanilla or pineapple flavored cakes. Similarly, you could also sprinkle sweet orange cream across fruit salads and custards.

Yet another use of orange cream is using it as filling for little tartlets, usually prepared from readymade pie crust or by baking pastry in tartlet pans (similar to ones in which we prepare quiches, except this one will be a sweet tart!).

Sweet Orange Cream Recipe

Below is given a simple and easy to follow recipe for sweet orange cream. Let us sneak a look at the recipes first :-

Ingredients

Grated orange rind
Freshly squeezed orange juice
Icing Sugar (Around a pound or so)
Freshly squeezed lemon juice (optional)
Honey (optional)
Sliced pineapple
Sliced strawberry (if in season)

Procedure

First check for any lumps in your icing sugar. If you do find some, either remove them or crush them with your hands. Place about a pound of the icing sugar in a mixing bowl.
Line the sides of the bowl with the icing sugar. Doing so ensures that the mixture which you put into the mixing bowl does not get wasted by sticking to the sides of the bowl later on.
Now on to the mixture! One by one, start adding the following to the icing sugar- the grated rind of orange, the freshly squeezed orange juice and the freshly squeezed lemon juice into the mixing bowl.
You will now need to strap on your kitchen gloves because you will have to use your hands to knead and mash everything up. Once you have attained a smooth mixture, you may drizzle one teaspoon of honey over the mixture. Let the rind soak in the honey.
Pour the mixture from the mixing bowl onto a rolling pan. Flatten it and begin to knead it. Make it as thick as you want your orange sweets to be (lesser than an inch ideally).
Once you have done so, take out a cookie cutter and start carving out your sweet oranges in your desired shapes and designs. (Carve out intricate patterns on the orange sweet if you want).

Orange sweets in piecrust

You could back orange sweets either in readymade piecrust or by preparing piecrust as given below

Start rolling out the pastry on a board. Of course you need to flour the board otherwise your pastry is going to stick to it and well, you don’t want to waste all that pastry dough now, would you? Now, the way you usually do with pie batter, take your pastry and stick it on the pie/ tartlet pan. Expand it by rubbing it all over the surface, the corners and up the sides. See that no excess is left falling over the sides of the pan. Cut off any such excess with a knife. Later, start making holes with a toothpick on the pastry stuck on the bottom surface of the pan. Yes, just like you do for a pizza! This is done to ensure that no air is trapped on the underside of the base crust while baking so as to avoid the bubbling of such trapped air on the surface of the pastry.

Baking usually tends to shrink the pastry dough so take a pre-emptive step to avoid this. Refrigerate your pastry pan for about half an hour. Then you may keep it in the oven (baking temperatures of 180 to 190 degree C). Continue baking for about ten to fifteen minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool outside for some time.

Next, place in your orange creams and bake it till the filling rises.

Storing sweet orange creams

Once you have prepared these sweets, wrap them up in parchment paper and let them dry from both sides.

Serving your orange sweets

As mentioned before, you could serve your sweet oranges on sundaes, ice creams, cakes, and fruit salads or you could even wrap each sweet in a wrapper and place all the wrapped sweets at the center of the dessert, wine, or appetizer table.

Another thing- you could also neatly slice pineapples and strawberries in cubic shapes and sprinkle them on the mound of (unwrapped) orange sweets. You may pour chocolate sauce on the little “sweet mound".

So there you have it! A cheap and dynamic solution to satisfy your sweet tooth. Go on, include the sweet orange creams on your bridal shower menu. Your bridal shower guests are sure to get a kick by savoring on these tiny little sweets.