Orange Almond Sheet Cake is a rich sheet cake covered in an almond-flavored icing. The light, fresh taste is perfect for summer.

 
The cake batter is buttery and supremely moist with lots of orange flavor from orange zest and orange extract. A little almond extract gives the cake a hint of almond flavoring and then there’s more almond flavor in the icing. Plus toasted sliced almonds on top for a little crunch. There are so many things to love about this cake!
Orange Almond Sheet Cake is wonderfully sweet and it’s hard to eat just one piece. Baked in a 15×10-inch pan, it has a baking time of only 20 minutes so it can be made in a jiffy. It can easily be sliced into 15 pieces. If you wrap it well in plastic wrap, it will stay fresh-tasting at room temperature for 4 days.
 
A little vegetable oil in the batter is what keeps this cake so moist. There’s also a little buttermilk which always makes baked goods taste divine.
Orange Almond Sheet Cake Recipe Tips:

It helps to have a hand-held mixer to mix the batter and icing but if you don’t have one, you can use a wooden spoon and give your forearm a workout.
I use salted butter because that is what I usually have on hand, but you can use unsalted butter and add just a pinch of salt.
It’s best to make this cake in a 10×15-inch pan but it can be made in a 9×13-inch pan. Just bake it slightly longer.

Almond desserts are some of my favorites and the combination of orange and a...