Orange Pound Cake (Wedding) – House Beautiful

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Servings: 50 Difficulty: Advanced
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International-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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Orange Pound Cake (Wedding) – House Beautiful

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Difficulty: Advanced
Servings: 50 Calories: 4106.0

Description

This International dessert features Sweet butter -flour, preferably Swans, Sugar (5 lb) -Down, Large eggs 2 teaspoon Baking soda, Freshly grated orange zest 1/2 teaspoon Salt. It delivers smooth, comforting richness, sweet, indulgent flavor. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. The cake layers can be prepared up to one week prior to the wedding but no less than two days before.
  2. They can also be made further ahead andfrozen.
  3. All ingredients must be at room temperature.
  4. Leave everything out at least 2 hours.
  5. Use a heavy-duty hand mixer for the cake batter and chocolate filling.
  6. Grease with shortening 9 round cake pans, 3 in each of the following sizes: 12-inch, 8-inch, and 5-inch (all 3 inches deep) and
  7. set aside.
  8. In a large mixing bowl,
  9. cream the butter and sugar on low speed until light and pale yellow,
  10. Beat in the eggs, orange zest and extracts.
  11. Slowly add the flour, baking soda and salt, incorporating fully after each addition.
  12. Mix in the concentrate and sour cream.
  13. Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix to smooth out any lumps.
  14. Divide mixture into prepared pans so that each is equally full.
  15. Bake in a preheated 325' oven for 30 to 45 minutes or until cakes pull away from the sides of the pans and cake tester comes out clean.
  16. Check cakes after 30 minutes.
  17. (Do not let pans touch each other or the sides of the oven.
  18. It is important not to overcrowd the oven.
  19. Unbaked cake layers can sit at room temperature until oven space is available.)
  20. Remove cakes from oven and
  21. allow them to
  22. cool in their pans on a wire rack.
  23. Baked cooled cakes can be wrapped in their pans and refrigerated up to one week, or frozen.
  24. House Beautiful/March/94 Scanned & fixed by DP & GG

Nutrition Facts

Servings 50

Amount Per Serving
Calories 4106.0kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 189.4g292%
Saturated Fat 117.4g587%
Cholesterol 674.5mg225%
Sodium 1533.9mg64%
Total Carbohydrate 607.3g203%
Dietary Fiber 0.7g3%
Sugars 603.8g
Protein 8.8g18%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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