Orange Walnut Bar Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix flour and baking powder well.
• Add to first mixture, mixing well.
• Add orange rind, orange juice, walnuts, and raisins, stir until well combined.
• Pour batter into greased and floured loaf pan.
• Bake at 350 for about 50 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for about 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan, wrap in foil.

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C.
• Grease a loaf or square cake tin well with some butter and line the base with baking paper.
• Cream the butter, sugar and grated rinds until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat in well.
• Fold through the sifted flour.
• Stir in the walnuts, followed by the orange juice and then the milk.
• Pour into the prepared tin and sprinkle with the 2 teaspoons sugar.
• Bake for about 50 minutes.
• Stand for a few minutes then cool on a wire rack.
• To make the frosting, cream the butter in a small mixing bowl until light.
• Beat in the icing sugar.
• Add the rind and juice then beat at high speed with electric mixer for a few minutes until frosting is stiff enough to shape easily but not too stiff to spread.
• If it's too thin add more sifted icing sugar.
• If too thick add some more juice or water.
• When the cake has cooled frost with the prepared frosting.

Steps:

• Position the oven racks so that the top rack is in the center. Preheat the oven to convection bake at 325°F. Lightly grease a 9-inch tube pan.
• In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, orange zest, baking soda, and baking powder together. Add the butter, eggs, and buttermilk all at once and, using a hand mixer, beat until the mixture is smooth. Stir in the walnuts.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the batter to the edges. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and dry. Remove from the oven, leaving the cake in the pan.
• While the cake bakes, make the orange syrup by combining the orange juice and sugar; bring to a boil and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
• Poke the hot cake with a skewer in several places and pour the hot syrup over it. Cool the cake on a wire rack for at least 15 minutes before removing it from the pan to a serving plate.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• For the bottom layer, in a large bowl, combine cake mix, butter and egg.
• Stir until mixture forms a thick dough.
• Press evenly into the bottom and 1/2 inch up the sides of a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until golden.
• Meanwhile, for the top layer, in a large bowl, combine syrup, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
• Beat with an electric mixer until well combined.
• Stir in walnuts.
• Pour over hot bottom layer; spread to cover the entire surface.
• Bake 22 to 25 minutes or until the top layer just starts to set.
• Cool completely in pan.
• Cut into bars.

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat the eggs, brown sugar and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the egg mixture. Stir in walnuts. , Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until bars pull away from edges of the pan. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, preserves, oil and egg; beat on low speed until blended. Stir in walnuts. (Batter will be thick.) Spread into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.