Orange
Cake
Submitted by:
Vicki |
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" I
like to make this cake around Easter and early spring,
but it's good any time of year! I use two good size oranges.
I hope you like it. "
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| Ingredients |
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 T. grated orange rind (fresh)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 T. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1 cup orange juice (fresh squeezed)
Orange Frosting
1/2 cup butter
2 tsp. grated orange rind (fresh)
1/8 tsp.salt
1 egg yolk
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
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| Directions |
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Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter and sugar well. Beat
in eggs 1 at a time. Add orange rind.
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Combine flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl.
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Add flour mixture to butter mixture in 3 parts alternately
with orange juice in 2 parts, beginning and ending with flour
mixture.
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Mix well. Spread in 2 greased and floured, 9 inch
layer cake pans. Bake in oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
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Frosting: Combine butter, orange rind, salt and egg yolk.
Beat till blended, add sugar alternately with orange juice.
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Hint: Use an old
toothbrush to clean all the orange peel out
of the little holes in your grater. |
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