Orange Walnut Bar Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Brush cake pan with oil, line bottom with parchment; oil and flour parchment and pan. Place walnuts in food processor and pulse until finely ground (be careful not to overprocess); set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together orange zest, flour, baking powder, salt, and ground walnuts. Make a well in the center of flour mixture and stir in eggs, brown sugar, orange juice, and oil until just moistened; do not overmix.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool in pan 10 minutes; transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• In a small bowl, stir together yogurt and confectioners' sugar. Before serving, dust cake with confectioners' sugar. Serve with sweet yogurt garnished with orange zest, if desired.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray 9-inch-diameter springform pan with nonstick olive oil spray. Place parchment paper round in bottom of pan and spray paper.
• Grind walnuts in processor until finely ground but not powdery. Combine ground walnuts, flour, and baking powder in medium bowl; set aside.
• Using electric mixer, beat eggs in large bowl until frothy, about 2 minutes. Gradually add sugar, beating until light, thick, and pale yellow, about 4 minutes. Gradually add walnut-flour mixture; then add orange juice, orange peel, and olive oil, beating just until blended. Transfer batter to prepared pan. Place pan on rimmed baking sheet, and bake cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool cake completely in pan on rack.
• Release pan sides. Carefully invert cake onto platter and remove parchment paper. Sprinkle powdered sugar atop cake and serve.

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir oats and orange juice until softened; set aside. In a bowl, cream butter and sugars; beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; add to the creamed mixture alternately with oat mixture. Stir in walnuts and orange zest. Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean., In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter, orange zest and juice. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; stir in coconut and walnuts. Gently spread over warm cake. Broil 4 in. from the heat for 2 minutes or until the topping is bubbly.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix flour and baking powder well.
• Add to first mixture, mixing well.
• Add orange rind, orange juice, walnuts, and raisins, stir until well combined.
• Pour batter into greased and floured loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for about 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan, wrap in foil.

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°F
• Lightly butter and flour the inside of a 12-cup fluted tube pan, tapping out the excess flour.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl and set aside.
• In a large bowl, using a hand-held electric mixer at high speed, beat the butter until creamy, about 1 minute.
• Add the sugar and beat until light in color and texture, about 2 minutes.
• One at a time, beat in the egg yolks, then the orange zest.
• Reduce the mixer speed to low and in three additions, beat in the flour mixture, alternating with the sour cream, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until the batter is smooth.
• Stir in the walnuts.
• In a grease-free, medium bowl, using the electric mixer with clean beaters, beat the egg whites just until stiff peaks form.
• Do not overbeat the whites, or they will look lumpy and watery.
• Using a rubber spatula, stir about one-fourth of the whites into the batter to lighten it.
• Pour the remaining whites on top and fold them in until they are incorporated. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 50 to 60 minutes.
• Cool on a wire cake rack for 10 minutes.
• GLAZE.
• To make the glaze, whisk the Grand Marnier, confectioners' sugar and orange juice to dissolve the sugar.
• Brush about half of the glaze over the cake, letting it soak inches Invert the cake onto the cake rack, and place the cake rack over a cookie sheet.
• Brush the remaining glaze over the cake.
• Cool completely.
• (The cake can be prepared up to 1 week ahead, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, and stored at room temperature.).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a nine-inch springform baking pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together and set aside. Beat the butter and one-and-a-third cups of the sugar together until light, then beat in the eggs. Add the flour alternately with one cup of the orange juice. Fold in the walnuts and orange rind.
• Spread batter in prepared pan and bake about 1 hour and 10 minutes, until browned and a cake tester comes out clean.
• Shortly before the cake is finished baking, simmer the remaining one-fourth cup of orange juice with the remaining sugar and the liqueur until the mixture is reduced to about three tablespoons and is syrupy.
• As soon as the cake is done, poke it about a dozen times with a skewer, then brush the warm glaze over it. Allow to cool completely before removing from the pan.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease an 8-inch spring form pan; flour lightly, tapping out excess flour, or use pan release recipe #78579.
• Combine cake mix, orange zest, orange juice and water in a large mixer bowl.
• Beat the batter according to package directions.
• Stir in walnuts. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until top springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Loosen cake around edge with a knife; release spring, and carefully lift off side of pan.
• Place cake on a wire rack; cool completely.
• Remove cake from metal base; place on a serving plate.
• Glaze:.
• Blend sifted icing sugar and orange juice together. (Place sifter over mixing bowl.).
• Stir in 1 Tablespoon more orange juice, a little at a time, until glaze is thin enough to pour from a spoon.
• Spoon over top of cake, letting mixture drizzle down side. A slotted spoon is great for drizzling.
• Sprinkle thin orange peel strips, or grated orange zest, over top of cake for garnish (optional).

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, preserves, oil and egg; beat on low speed until blended. Stir in walnuts. (Batter will be thick.) Spread into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.