Orange Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsp grated orange rind
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup prepared orange juice
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter and sugar well. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add orange rind. Mix. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Add orange juice to butter mixture in 2 parts alternately with flour mixture in 3 parts, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spread in 2 greased 9 inch round layer pans. Bake in oven for 25 to 30 minutes until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean. Ice with Orange icing. ORANGE ICING 2 cups icing sugar 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened 3 tbsp frozen condensed orange juice to moisten Beat all ingredients together in bowl until smooth. Add more liquid or icing sugar as needed. Makes about 1 1/3 cups.
