Sour Cream Orange Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Bring butter, eggs & sour cream to room temperature. Grease and lightly flour a loaf pan or bundt pan.
• In a bowl stir together flour, baking powder and soda; set aside.
• In a large bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed about 30 seconds or till softened. Gradually add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on medium to high speed about 6 minutes total or till very light and fluffy.
• Add vanilla and almond extract. Add eggs, one at a time, beating on low to medium speed for 1 minute after each; scrape bowl often. Alternately add flour mixture and sour cream, beating on low speed just till combined. Gently fold in orange zest into the batter.
• Spread batter in the prepared pan. Bake in a 325F oven for 60-70 minutes or till cake tests done with a knife or toothpick. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan and cool completely.

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Cream butter and sugar until very light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolks and rinds.
• Sift dry ingredients into creamed mixture, alternating with sour cream.
• Do not overbeat.
• Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry.
• Fold in with a rubber spatula.
• Oven 325.
• well greased Bundt or tube pan.
• Bake approximately 1 hr.
• Cool 10 minutes and then turn cake onto a plate with a rim.
• Orange Syrup.
• Combine:.
• 1/2 cup orange juice, fresh.
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice.
• 1/2 cup white sugar.
• Bring to a boil and simmer about 3 mins.
• Slowly pour hot syrup over cake, allowing time for it to soak it.

Steps:

• Grease heavily and flour a 9 x 13 cake pan. Set aside.
• Cream butter or margarine with the sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add in the orange zest and beat well.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each one is added.
• Measure then sift the flour with soda three times.
• Add the flour alternately with the sour cream and orange juice into the creamed sugar butter mixture.
• Fold in the dates, nuts and raisins.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until almost done.
• Combine the honey with the 1/3 cup orange juice, and pour evenly over the almost baked cake.
• Keep in the oven baking for at least another 6 minutes longer until tester shows done.
• Cool in pan on wire rack.