Orange Crush Soda and boxed cake mix come together to create a super easy, moist, cake recipe to share for any special occasion.
Course Dessert
Author Kelly Pugliano
Ingredients
Cake:
1box white cake mix
1bottle or can Orange sodameasure out 12 oz.
Frosting:
½lbbutter2 sticks, room temperature
1package cream cheese8oz., room temperature
1lb.package confectioners’ sugar
1tspvanilla
Orange food coloring
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour 2 cake pans.
In a big bowl, Combine cake mix and 1 can (or measure out 12 oz.) orange soda. DO NOT ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO THE CAKE MIX.
Pour into greased and floured cake pans and bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick tests clean.
Cool 10 minutes in pan then turn out to wire rack to cool completely.
Make frosting:
In a mixer, combine butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla.
Whip together for 2-3 minutes until smooth.
Separate into thirds. In one bowl, add enough orange coloring for a deep orange. In the second bowl, make orange a few shades lighter. In the last bowl, even lighter.
Place one cooled cake on platter.
Top with a thin layer of lightest color.
Top with the second layer of cake and spread a very thin layer of frosting over entire cake.
Place each shade of orange colored frosting in three separate pastry bags with large star tip (Wilton 1M).
With the darkest color, swirl rosettes on the bottom. Repeat with middle color.
Finish with the lightest color.
If you do not want to make cream cheese frosting, you can easily buy a tub of vanilla frosting and use that instead.