Grandmas Orange Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer until soft and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, about 2 minutes. Gradually add in sugar on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until the yellow disappears from the previous one.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl. Add sour cream to the creamed butter mixture alternately with the flour, ending with sour cream. Beat in vanilla and almond extract just until combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease and flour 8" square pan.
• Sift together flour and baking soda (set aside).
• In food processor grind orange and raisins (her recipe says grind the orange and raisins).
• In separate bowl cream butter and sugar.
• Beat in eggs.
• Stir in Sour Milk.
• Add orange/raisin mixture.
• Stir in flour mixture.
• (Depending on the amount of juice in the orange you may have to adjust the flour slightly to get the right batter consistency).
• Pour into pan and bake for 30 minutes or until done (suggest checking after 25 minutes as grandma did not specify boking time).
• While cake bakes dissolve 1/4 cup orange juice with 1/2 cup sugar (either on stove or in microwave).
• Pour juice mixture over cake while hot (you may want to poke small holes in the cake).