April's Amazing Orange Walnut Christmas Cake
Author: April Ozbilgin
Recipe type: Dessert
- 4 eggs
- 1 Cup Vegetable Oil
- ¾ Cup Orange Juice
- ½ Cup Milk
- 2 Cups All purpose Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- 1½ Cup Walnuts, Chopped (Reserve ½ Cup for topping cake)
- For the Orange syrup:
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 Orange Sliced in thin circles
- 1 Cup Orange Juice
- For the Icing:
- 2 Packages Cream Cheese, softened
- ½ Cup Powdered Sugar
- ¼ Cup Orange syrup
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the 1 Cup sugar with the orange slices and the 1 cup orange juice in a medium-sized sauce pan.
- Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat to cool.
- Remove the orange slices from the syrup and place on wax paper.and cool the slices.
- Strain the syrup and cool completely.
- Grease and flour 2 - 9 inch round cake pans and set aside.
- Mix the eggs and vegetable oil until well blended.
- Put the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl and stir well.
- Add the orange juice and the milk to the egg and oil mixture and blend well.
- Whisk in the flour mixture.
- Next add in the chopped walnuts.
- Pour the batter into the two cake pans equally.
- Bake at 350 for 20 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool on a cooling rack, then remove from the pans onto the cooling rack.
- Put a piece of wax paper under the rack.
- Using a chopstick or other utensil poke holes in each cake.
- Spoon the syrup mixture over each cake but reserve ¼ cup of the syrup for the icing.
- Mix the softened cream cheese, powdered sugar and the reserved syrup in a blender until fluffy.
- Place the bottom layer of cake on the cake plate and cover with icing.
- Top with the second cake and cover the top and sides with icing.
- Toast the reserved walnuts and once cooled, place on top of cake.
- Decorate top of cake with candied orange slices. Enjoy! Afiyet olsun!
Recipe by In The Kitchen With April at http://www.inthekitchenwithapril.com/2014/12/aprils-amazing-orange-walnut-christmas-cake.html
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