Mandarin Orange Cake

Senin, 18 Juni 2012

A moist and fluffy cake recipe made with a cake mix and mandarin oranges topped with the famous cool and creamy icing made with crushed pineapple, pudding mix and cool whip. Also known as Pig or Pea Pickin' Cake, Sunshine Cake and Ambrosia Cake.

I’d never considered putting this recipe on the blog before because, like with the Chocolate Delight recipe, I assumed everybody and their dog had it.

Then I searched online for the recipe, which I thought was pretty standard, and learned that there are 19 fazillion versions of this recipe out there.

And since the one my mom has been using for the last twenty years is ta die for perfectly perfect in its perfectness, I called her up to make sure I had the version of the recipe that she uses.

Mandarin Orange Cake | A moist and fluffy cake recipe made with a cake mix and mandarin oranges topped with the famous cool and creamy icing made with crushed pineapple, pudding mix and cool whip. Also known as Pig or Pea Pickin' Cake, Sunshine Cake and Ambrosia Cake.

You’ve all seen this recipe before. I think it hit the scene in the 80’s and is known by a few other names: Pig Pickin’ Cake, Ambrosia Cake, Pea Picking Cake and Sunshine Cake to name a few.

We actually call this Man Cake since Mom says she’s yet to serve this to a man and he not ask for it again and again. Ha! She just made this for Father’s Day for that exact reason.

I don’t know who originally created this recipe but it is truly wonderful. And easy! And, though I can’t claim to have tested out all the other versions of it floating around out there, I’m going to go out on a limb and declare this one the best because I, honest to God, can’t think of a thing that could be improved upon with it.

I love how moist and fluffy the cake is. You don't have that combo in too many recipes. Most recipes that are moist are dense and thick. And I love that this is refrigerated because the cool cake and creamy frosting are perfect combo!

And this frosting? Ohhhh, this frosting! I love it so much that I came up with a pie recipe that's made up of just the frosting ingredients! Since so many people call this cake Pig Pickin' Cake, I decided to call my pie Pig Pickin' Pie (and well, because it sounds cute!).