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Orange Cake

A cake made with a Rocky Mountain cake base, orange zest, orange filling, and orange icing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Orange Cake

Orange Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the Rocky Mountain cake as directed.

  2. Add the grated zest of one orange to the batter.

Bake and assemble

  1. Bake the cake in layers.

  2. Spread orange filling between the layers.

  3. Cover the cake with orange icing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Orange zest
Adds fragrant citrus aroma and flavour to the batter.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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