Orange Cream Frosting

As others have mentioned, this frosting is improved with the addition of orange zest. I used the zest from a whole orange, which gave pretty orange flecks to the cream-colored icing. The corn syrup is unnecessary and tilts the frosting into the "too sweet" range. This recipe works fine with vegan butter, e.g. Earth Balance. Rather than use orange dye, use your imagination to suggest orange -- orange candles, candied orange peel, orange-slide candy, or, if you are lucky, as I am, to have access to kumquats or calamondin oranges, (see my photo), use the real thing, in miniature, as an accent.

This is good, but would love to have it taste more like orange. Perhaps next time, I will try to intensify the flavor.