Tennessee Ernie Ford's Pea-Picking Cake

Cookin In Texas's Note:

I got a lot of these. I bought tons of recipe boxes from an auction. They are all hand written cards.

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 4 eggs
• 1 (8 ounce) can mandarin oranges, save juice for cake mix

Frosting

• Cool Whip, thawed
• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, save juice to pour over cooled cake
• 1 (3 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding

Directions:

1. Combine cake ingredients and bake in greased and floured 9 x 13-inch pan at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
2. Test cake doneness with wooden toothpick.
3. Cool cake before frosting.
4. Combine all ingredients, dry pudding, Cool Whip and crushed pineapple.
5. Before frosting cake, pour pineapple juice over cooled cake.

Reviews

[chefnini]

This is a wonderful moist cake...just right for summer...I refrigerate it overnight and its cold and yummy the next day...