Orange Layer Cake
- 3 cups flour
- 2 12 teaspoons baking powder
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 3 12 cups powdered sugar
- 6 eggs, separated
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 1 12 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 12 teaspoons orange extract
- 1 cup skim milk
- 14 cup low-fat plain yogurt
- 12 ounces low-fat cream cheese, room temperature
- 34 cup butter, room temperature
- 34 cup brown sugar
- 2 14 cups powdered sugar
- 1 12 teaspoons orange juice
- 1 12 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350F Butter and flour two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with 2-inch-high sides.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.
- Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until creamy.
- Gradually add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, occasionally scraping down sides of bowl.
- Add egg yolks 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in orange peel, vanilla extract and orange extract.
- Whisk milk and yogurt in small bowl to blend.
- Add dry ingredients to yolk mixture in 3 additions alternately with milk mixture in 2 additions, beating well after each addition.
- Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in another large bowl until stiff but not dry.
- Fold 1/3 of whites into batter, then fold in remaining whites.
- Divide batter between pans.
- Smooth tops.
- Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
- Cool cakes in pans on rack 15 minutes.
- Run small knife around sides of pans to loosen cakes.
- Turn cakes out onto racks and cool completely.
- (Can be made 1 day ahead.
- Wrap in plastic and store at room temperature.
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- Place 1 cake layer, flat side up, on platter.
- Spread top of cake with 3/4 cup Creamy Brown Sugar Frosting.
- Top with second cake layer, flat side down; press slightly to adhere.
- Spread 2 cups frosting over sides of cake.
- Spoon remaining frosting into pastry bag fitted with medium-size star tip.
- Pipe decorative border around top edge of cake.
- Refrigerate until frosting is firm, about 1 hour.
- (Can be made 1 day ahead.
- Cover with cake dome and refrigerate.
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flour, baking powder, salt, butter, powdered sugar, eggs, orange zest, vanilla, orange, milk, lowfat plain yogurt, cream cheese, butter, brown sugar, powdered sugar, orange juice, vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/orange-layer-cake-239778 (may not work)