Triple Orange Cake

"The original recipe calls for lemon cake mix, lemon jello and lemon juice ... but I just made it with orange and my family loved it. Great orange colour too!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
12
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ingredients

  • 1 (3 ounce) package orange Jell-O
  • 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package orange cake mix
  • 23 cup canola oil
  • 34 cup water
  • 4 large eggs
  • 13 cup orange juice
  • 1 12 cups icing sugar
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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Grease a 9 x 13 cake pan; set aside.
  • Place all ingredients except juice and icing sugar in a large bowl.
  • Beat thoroughly with an electric mixer at medium speed.
  • Pour into pan.
  • Bake 35- 45 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched in center.
  • Leave cake in pan and pierce entire surface with fork.
  • In a small bowl, blend juice and icing sugar thoroughly.
  • Spoon evenly over cake.

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Reviews

  1. What a nice change from chocolate! Seems like we always make chocolate! This cake was so easy to make. It has a very refreshing orange flavor. I made it in a bundt pan and drizzled the frosting over, it was beautiful. Only problem I had was keeping my husband out of it!! Thanks for another winner, Lennie!
     
  2. Now this is what we in the South call a hum-dinger. The cake was awesome and perfect for our Halloween party. Thankfully, I was able to find the orange cake mix without any trouble. Beautiful color and very, very moist. Thanks so much for a totally yummy dessert.
     
  3. I made this cake for my Dad, who loves anything with orange. He loved it and wanted to make sure that I never lose this recipe! I made the cake in a bundt pan, and it came out absolutely beautiful. I also used egg substitute, since my Dad had open heart surgery several years ago & is still very careful about cholesterol. I think I will experiment with other flavors too, such as strawberry. This one's a winner, Lennie - thank you! -M
     
  4. I made the lemon version because I could not find orange cake mix.It was delicious,very moist and citrusy.I also made it in a bundt pan.An excellent dessert!
     
  5. this was very good and easy to make!I messed up thew fist time by not adding the water,so I ran back to the store and they were out of orange cake mix! I used pineapple instead,with pineapple jello and pineapple juice.(I promise to make the orange next time!! :)
     
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Tweaks

  1. I have, in the past, used the lemon version of this recipe and loved it, so decided to try the orange. Since we have a lot of oranges in Florida, I used orange juice instead of water, added orange zest and about a tsp. of orange extract. Great flavor, very moist cake and lovely color. The recipe does not state when to pour on the glaze. Since I was using a bundt pan I unmolded the cake after ten minutes and poured the glaze on the still warm cake without poking holes in it. Worked beautifully.
     
  2. I used pineapple cake with pudding in the mix, and Island Pineapple Jello. Never thought to use Pineapple juice for the glaze until it was too late, but used a whipped topping and lemon jello frosting instead. It came out really tasty and next, I'll use the orange instead. It was very easy and moist.
     

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