Recipe: Chocolate Laced Mandarin Orange Cake

Delight your loved one with this chocolate laced mandarin orange cake. Whether you’re celebrating a special occasion with your significant other, or baking a cake for a friend, this recipe is sure to wow!

Chocolate Laced Mandarin Orange Cake

Serves 12

1 (11 oz.) Cans Mandarin Oranges with Juices
Reserve 1/2 Cup Juice from Oranges
1 (18.5 0z.) White or Yellow Cake Mix
1 tsp. Orange Liquor, Almond Flavoring or Vanilla
1 tsp. Grated Orange Peel
1/2 tsp. Ground Cinnamon
1/2  Cup Chocolate Chips coarsely chopped

Instructions:

1. Preheat Oven to 350*.
   Prepare batter for cake mix according to directions on package, substituting 1/2 of water with orange juice from mandarin oranges.
2. Add orange peel and flavoring (as desired) to batter.
3. Line bottoms of two 8 or 9-inch cake pans with wax paper.
4. Arrange orange sections evenly over bottom of pans.
5. Sprinkle with 1/4 tsp. cinnamon for each pan.
6. Divide batter evenly in pans.
7. Coarsely chop chocolate chips and sprinkle over cake batter.
8. Swirl batter with a knife to blend in chocolate pieces.
9. Bake at 350* for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
10. Cool for 10 minutes and turn cake upside-down onto a cake plate. Carefully remove wax paper on the orange side up.
11. Place one cake on a serving plate and spread a layer of whip topping, placing the second cake on top.
12. Garnish as desired with additional whip topping and melted chocolate blended with remaining orange juice.

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