Myversionofasunshinecakewwstyle Recipes

CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE CAKE

Steps:

• Juice the oranges, reserving juice for topping.
• Put the orange rind, the raisins and the nuts through the medium blade of a meat grinder (or process with steel blade in food processor until a coarse grind is achieved).
• Combine butter and sugar in mixer bowl and beat together until fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and continue beating until completely incorporated.
• Combine salt, flour and baking soda and sift together.
• Add flour and buttermilk alternately in 3 portions, mixing on low after each addition.
• Fold in orange, raisin, nut mixture until completely combined.
• Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 9" X 13" pan or a bundt pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean.
• While cake is still hot, pierce all over with a fork.
• Mix orange juice, sugar and cinnamon and carefully pour mixture over cake. (This is harder on the bundt cake -- be patient).
• When cake has cooled, remove from pan.
• Refrigerate leftover cake.

SUNSHINE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 9-inch pie plate.
• Whisk eggs, granulated sugar, almond extract, and salt in a large bowl until frothy and pale, about 30 seconds. Add 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup flour and stir until incorporated. Pour into prepared pie plate. Top with almonds and pearl sugar, if using.
• Bake cake until top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cake cool slightly before serving.
• Do ahead:
• Cake can be made 1 day ahead; store tightly wrapped at room temperature.

SUNSHINE CAKE

Steps:

• Separate eggs. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together three times.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat yolks until lemon colored. mix in sugar a little at a time. Stir in the lemon extract, vanilla extract and boiling water until smooth. Stir in the flour mixture just until moistened. Whip the egg whites to soft peaks, and fold into the batter.
• Pour the batter into an ungreased 9 inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees F ( 175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven, and invert the pan over a bottle. Cool and remove from pan.

MY VERSION OF A SUNSHINE CAKE... WW STYLE

Steps:

• Mix cake mix and diet soda.
• Add half of the mandarin oranges.
• Cook in a 9X13 pan as directed on the cake mix box.
• Once cake is cooled blend together cool whip and pudding. This is the topping for the cake -- Option: You can either cut remaining orange sections in half and blend in with the topping OR place them on top decoratively.