Orange Cake

Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour

3 large eggs

2 sticks of butter

1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 fresh orange juice

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

3 tbsp orange zest

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Cream the butter and sugar for 5 minutes or until

smooth.

3. Add sour cream, vanilla and eggs. Mix until combined.

4. In a separate bowl, sift the flour and salt to remove any lumps.

5. Mix the sifted flour to the wet ingredients, mix until smooth.

6. Add orange juice and orange zest and divide the cake dough between 2 greased baking pans.

7. Bake for 30 minutes or until done.

For the icing, I used store bought cream cheese.

I added some orange zest to the cream cheese to get

orange flavor. I made this cake recently for my friend's birthday party. The cake tasted fresh and yummy with orange flavor throughout. Do not skip the orange zest and fresh orange juice in the cake batter. The sour cream added moisture to the cake. We decorated it with sliced oranges and it looked and tasted divine.
There was some cake dough that was left after filling my two cake pans. I added some chocolate chips in it and put in a separate loaf pan. I absolutely loved the cake with the addition of chocolate chips.