Layered high, this Cranberry Orange Layer Cake is filled with a sweet cranberry filling and frosted with an orange spiked buttercream frosting that will send your tastebuds to heaven.

Now I like to make my own cranberry sauce, so I used fresh cranberries for this. Toss them in a sauce pan with a little, sugar, water and vanilla and let those babies burst and thicken. Seriously, so easy and so good. I love eating it with a spoon, but I knew if I did that I wouldn’t have enough to fill this bad boy.

So I’m a huge frosting gal, I love trying all the frostings. And orange happens to be one of my favorite. Now you can use orange juice if you prefer for this but I used orange extract and a little bit of orange zest. It gave this buttercream just the perfect amount of sweetness to really set it apart. You can smell that orange infusion and it literally makes you want to melt. I adore the smell of orange.....