Orange Soaked Bundt Cake Recipes

ORANGE CRUNCH BUNDT® CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch bundt pan.
• Cream butter or margarine and 1 cup sugar. Add eggs, and beat well with an electric mixer at medium speed. Mix in sour cream and vanilla. Combine flour and baking soda: add to creamed mixture, blending just until moistened. Stir in raisins, walnuts, and orange rind. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 60 minutes, or until a wooden pick comes out clean. Cool cake in pan for 5 minutes.
• Dissolve 1/2 cup sugar in orange juice. Pour over hot cake. Cool completely in pan.

ORANGE SOAK CAKE

Steps:

• NOTE: If you don't have an orange-flavored cake mix on hand, a yellow cake mix is an acceptable substitute.
• Just add 1 tbs of orange extract and 1 tbs grated orange peel to the batter before mixing Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour a 13x9-inch pan.
• Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions.
• While cake is baking, combine powdered sugar, orange juice, melted butter, and water in a medium bowl.
• When cake is done, remove from oven and immediately poke holes in top with a fork or toothpick.
• Pour glaze slowly over top of hot cake, allowing it to soak in.
• Cool completely on a wire rack.

ORANGE-SOAKED BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 350°F Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup bundt pan.
• To make the cake-- Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, and soda into the large bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the butter and mix on low speed until fine crumbs form. Change to the whisk attachment. With the machine running on medium speed, whisk in the oil, lemon zest, vanilla extract, and orange juice. Whisk in the eggs one at a time and then increase the speed to high and whisk the batter until light, about 3 min., scraping the sides of the bowl if necessary. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean, 45 to 50 minute.
• To make the syrup and glaze-- While the cake bakes, whisk together in a small bowl the orange juice concentrate, butter, rum, and 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar.
• When the cake is done, set the pan on a rack to cool for 5 minute With a thin skewer, poke the cake all the way through to the bottom of the pan in about 100 places. Pour 1/3 cup of the syrup over the cake and let stand for 1/2 hour; repeat with another 1/3 cup of syrup and let stand another 1/2 hour before removing the cake from the pan. (At this point you can wrap the cake in plastic and hold for up to 3 days at room temperature; in fact, the flavor only improves.) Cover the remaining syrup with plastic and store at room temperature.
• When ready to serve, whisk the remaining 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar into the remaining syrup. Set the cake on a rack over a baking sheet and pour the glaze over the cake. Let stand for at least 10 minute before slicing and serving.