Light Mandarin Orange Cake Food

CREAMY MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Beat cake mix, dry pudding mix, 1 cup sour cream, water, oil, eggs and orange zest with mixer until blended. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round pans.
• Bake 25 to 30 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans 10 min. Invert onto wire racks; gently remove pans. Cool cakes completely.
• Whisk remaining sour cream and sugar in large bowl until blended. Stir in COOL WHIP.
• Stack cake layers on plate, filling with half each of the COOL WHIP mixture and oranges. Frost top with remaining COOL WHIP mixture. Garnish with remaining oranges. Keep refrigerated.

MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE WITH FROSTING

Steps:

• Mix the cake mix, eggs, oil or applesauce, and mandarin oranges together.
• Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans.
• Pour batter into prepared cake pans.
• Bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• For the frosting, mix the Cool Whip, crushed pineapple and instant vanilla pudding together.
• Let set for 5 minutes.
• Place a thin layer of frosting on one cake.
• Place the second cake on top of the first.
• Frost the top and side of both layers.
• Frosted cake maybe decorated with whipped topping using decorative bag and tips.
• Garnish with mandarin orange segments and mint leaves.

MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 8" round pans and set aside.
• In a large bowl/mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, Cuties and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl, sift cake flour, baking powder and salt together.
• Gradually incorporate into wet mixture alternating with milk until just incorporated.
• Pour into baking pans and bake 25-28 minutes when cake springs back after being touched. Allow to cool 20 minutes before turning onto rack or pedestal.

MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Beat the eggs, add oranges and dry ingredients, sugar, flour, baking soda and salt, beat on low speed until combined Pour into a greased and floured pan.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes.
• In a small saucepan bring the final 3 ingredients to a boil and pour over the hot cake as soon as it comes out of the oven Serve with whipped cream.

TRIPLE ORANGE ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Move a rack to the bottom position.
• Drain the mandarin oranges and reserve the liquid. Measure the reserved liquid and add enough water to equal 1 1/4 cups. Measure out 1 cup mandarin oranges, reserving the remaining oranges for garnish.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine angel food cake mix, mandarin water, orange extract and orange zest. With an electric mixer, beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl and beat on medium for 1 minute. Pour into angel food tube pan. Carefully place 1 cup of orange segments around top of cake batter. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until top of cake is cracked, dark golden brown, and not sticky.
• Remove cake from oven and invert onto glass bottle to cool.
• Frost cake with whipped topping and garnish with reserved orange segments.
• Cook's Note: Excessive stirring will cause whipped topping to become watery.

MANDARIN ORANGE ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Add the juice from the oranges and the orange zest to the cake mix.
• Stir to combine.
• Bake in a bundt pan at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
• Cool completly. Frost with Cool Whip and decorate with the mandarin oranges.
• I used 3 Tbs. orange zest, but that is just a personal preference. You can also add half the caan of oranges into the batter before baking, but for some reason it always makes my cake stick to the pan. So just experiment. It is just as good with the oranges on top of the cake instead of in it.

MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, applesauce and oranges. Beat on low speed for 30 seconds; beat on medium for 2 minutes. , Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. , In another bowl, beat whipped topping, pineapple and pudding mix. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake. Chill.