Orange Cake

Orange Cake

This is an adaptation for a recipe for orange bread. It turned out so much like a cake, I decided to keep it. I actually made it using mandarins. This was very delicious.

Wet Ingredients:
1 cup oil or butter (I used coconut oil)
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
3/4 cups sour cream
Juice from 4 large oranges or 8 mandarins
Zest from the same oranges or mandarins
1 tsp vanilla

Dry Ingredients:
3 cups flour (or more)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Dash of nutmeg

Optional Glaze Ingredients:
1 cup confectioners (powdered) sugar
1 8-oz package cream cheese
1 can coconut milk (cream portion and enough liquid to get the consistency of what you want)
Splash of vanilla
Dash of cardamom

Directions:
1) In large bowl, beat eggs until fully mixed.
2) Add oil to eggs and beat until fluffy again.
3) Add sugar and beat once again.
4) Mix in the remaining wet ingredients.
5) In a medium bowl, sift all the dry ingredients.
6) Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly. If you see it is too runny, add  more flour.
7) Pour batter into greased cake pans or a bundt pan.
8) Bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven 45 minutes for cake pans and 1 hour 10 minutes in a bundt pan or until it tests done with a toothpick.
9) Let cool briefly before trying to remove from pan.
10) Top with your favorite glaze.

Directions for Glaze:
1) Beat sugar, cream cheese, the cream portion of the coconut milk, vanilla, and cardamom together in small bowl until blended.
2) Add enough of the remaining coconut milk liquid until you get your desired consistency.
3) For best results, we discovered that this glaze fluffs up a little if refrigerated overnight.