Orange Refrigerator Cake
This refreshing dessert will disappear in a hurry at your next get-together. "My mother used this recipe more than 60 years ago, but she called it 'Icebox Cake' because we didn't have a refrigerator," recalls Marietta Martin from Brazil, Indiana.12 ServingsPrep: 10 min. + chilling
Ingredients
- 1 package (4.6 ounces) cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 2 loaf-shaped angel food cakes (10-1/2 ounces each)
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream, whipped
Directions
- Prepare pudding according to package directions; set aside. In a
- small sauce-pan, sprinkle gelatin over orange juice; let stand for 1
- minute. Cook and stir over low heat until gelatin is completely
- dissolved. Stir into pudding. Add orange peel. Transfer to a large
- bowl. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until cooled.
- Cut one angel food cake in half width-wise. Save one half for another
- use. Cut remaining half into eight slices. Cut second loaf into 16
- slices.
- Arrange half of the cake slices in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. dish.
- Fold whipped cream into pudding; spread half over the cake slices.
- Repeat layers. Cover and refrigerate overnight or until set. Yield:
- 12 servings.