Glazed Tangerine Bundt Cake

[cat lover]

3 to 4 tangerines
4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tbnsp grated orange zest
1 - 16 oz pkg confectioners sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 12 cup bundt pan. Grate 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp zest and squeeze 1 cup juice from tangerines; reserve separtely. Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt. On medium high speed beat butter with granulated sugar and vanilla till light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. On low, beat in eggs, one at a time. Combine milk and 1/2 cup tangerine juice. Alternately beat flour and milk mixtures into egg mixture. Stir in orange zest and 1 tbsp tangerine zest. Pour into pan. Bake 50 to 55 minutes or till toothpick tests clean. Cool 30 minutes on rack. Transfer from pan to rack and cool completely. Place cake on serving plate. Stir confectioners sugar with 6 tbsp juice and 1 tsp tangerine zest, stirring in additional juice as needed to make glaze consistency. Spoon glaze over cake.

[seleach]

Motherof2 has awarded a Blue Ribbon to this recipe.

Congrats Debbie. Will have to try this.

Thank you Kay for being a recipe tester and testing this recipe.

[Minny]

Congrats!!! I'll have to try this one.

[motherof2]

It was very good and I did not change a thing. My boys just loved it and would have eaten it in one setting if I let them. Congrats.

[Pag36]

Sounds VERY good will have to try it later when I use the oven

[cat lover]

Glad everyone enjoyed it!

[Bilby]

Reckon I could put in oranges instead?

[Minny]

I imagine you could use oranges instead of tangerines. I thought about Mandarin oranges, which are more or less canned tangerines with water & maybe a little sugar added.

Originally Posted by Bilby

Reckon I could put in oranges instead?

[cat lover]

Originally Posted by Bilby

Reckon I could put in oranges instead?

Oranges should work just fine since you are just juicing them and using the zest. Mandarin oranges(canned) I'm not sure how you would do that since you wouldn't have any zest from them and not sure how many cans or how you would "juice" them.

[Minny]

When you use oranges, you only use a little bit of orange zest... put the rest in a baggie & freeze it.. then you have some zest to use later. If using the canned mandarin oranges, why couldn't you use bottled orange juice instead of the juice from the oranges? It probably wouldn't taste the same, but it would still have some orange flavor to it.