Orange Spice Celebration Cake

Cooking Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. You’ll need a 10-cup bundt pan (we used Nordic Ware’s Bavaria pan) coated with nonstick spray.

With mixer on low speed, beat cake mix, water, oil, eggs, pudding mix and extract 30 seconds to combine. Beat 2 minutes at medium. Stir in zest. Pour batter into pan; bake 50 minutes, until pick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.

Cool in pan 10 minutes; turn out onto wire rack to cool completely. Just before serving, sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar and decorate with orange zest curls and cranberries. Store undecorated cake airtight at cool room temperature up to 5 days.

Note: To make orange zest curls, cut long strips of peel from oranges with a channel knife. Wrap each strip tightly around a drinking straw. Cut slits at ends of straw and insert ends of strip into slits to secure. Set in ice water 10 minutes. To sugar cranberries, rinse, then roll in sugar. Let dry on a rack.