A tasty use for clementines! This tart and simple cake is made with regular boxed yellow cake mix and is boosted with clementines and chocolate.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 24 mins |
| Additional Time: | 40 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 29 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9-inch layer cake |
Ingredients
- 4 clementines
- ½ cup water, or as needed
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix (such as Betty Crocker®)
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ teaspoon orange extract, or more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 drop red food coloring
- 2 (16 ounce) containers chocolate fudge frosting
- 1 clementine, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 clementine, peeled and segmented, or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch round cake pans.
- Finely grate zest from 2 clementines and set aside. Juice all 4 clementines into a measuring cup; add enough water to reach 1 cup.
- Pour clementine juice into a large bowl. Add zest, cake mix, eggs, oil, orange extract, vanilla extract, salt, and red food coloring. Blend with an electric mixer until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Divide batter into greased cake pans and smooth the top.
- Bake cakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the centers comes out clean, 24 to 29 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack, about 30 minutes more.
- Transfer cakes to a flat surface. Carefully trim the tops of the cakes with a sharp knife to level them; cut each layer in half horizontally. Transfer one cake layer to a serving plate and spread with 1/2 cup of the frosting; top with another cake layer and 1/2 cup of frosting. Scatter chopped clementine over the frosting. Stack and frost third and fourth cake layers. Arrange clementine wedges around the perimeter of the top layer.
- The quantities of eggs, oil, and water for this cake mix are based on the particular brand mentioned. Follow instructions on the box if using a different brand.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 569 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 80 g |
| Cholesterol | 47 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 405 mg |
| Sugars | 63 g |
| Fat | 28 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
My grandson loves clementines and asked for a clementine cake for his birthday. I didn’t think there was such a thing, but I found it here. I only added the zest of one clementine and used 2 cake boxes since they were gluten free (Betty Crocker) and don’t rise as much as the gluten cakes. I did not slice each cake in half, lengthwise, so I ended up with 4 layers. The cake was delicious!