Tennessee Ernie Ford's Pea-Picking Cake

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

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 8-12

Ingredients

• 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.