Figgy Orange Streusel Cake Recipes

ORANGE STREUSEL LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease and flour two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans.
• For streusel topping, place 2 tablespoons cake mix, brown sugar, butter or margarine and cinnamon in medium bowl.
• Mix well with fork until crumbly.
• Stir in pecans, if using.
• Set aside.
• For cake, combine remaining cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, sour cream and oil in large bowl.
• Beat at medium speed with electric mixer for 3 minutes (do the entire 3 minutes).
• Pour batter into pans.
• Sprinkle with streusel mixture.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pans 15 minutes.
• Remove loaves from pans and let cool completely.
• For glaze, combine confectioners' sugar and milk or orange juice in a small bowl.
• Stir until smooth.
• Drizzle over cooled loaves.

ALMOND ORANGE STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9 inch tube pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix brown sugar, almonds, and flour. Stir in butter and 1 teaspoon orange zest, and set aside.
• In a separate medium bowl, thoroughly beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Mix in eggs one at a time. Beat in remaining teaspoon orange zest and vanilla extract.
• In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, and baking soda. With an electric mixer set to Low, alternately mix in egg mixture and 2/3 cups orange juice to make a batter. Spoon 1/2 the batter into the prepared 9 inch tube pan. Top with 1/2 the brown sugar mixture. Cover with remaining batter, and top with remaining brown sugar mixture.
• Bake 25 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
• Mix 5 teaspoons orange juice and confectioner's sugar in a small bowl, and use to glaze the cooled cake.

FIGGY ORANGE STREUSEL CAKE

Steps:

• PREHEAT oven to 350ºF.
• STREUSEL:
• Grease and flour a 10" (4L) tube pan. Combine all ingredients for streusel in food processor.
• Pulse just until chunky (or chop nuts and mix with other ingredients). Set aside.
• CAKE:
• Beat butter and sugar in large bowl until creamy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices and salt. Add to butter mixture alternatively with buttermilk, making 3 additions of flour mixture and 2 of buttermilk.
• Stir in figs and zest.
• Spread half of batter in prepared pan; sprinkle with half the streusel.
• Spread remaining batter on top; sprinkle with remaining streusel.
• BAKE in centre of 350ºF (180ºC) oven for 50-60 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes, then remove and serve warm or cool.