Pig Pickin' Cake
The unofficial cake of Southern barbecues, potlucks and pig picking soirees, a Pig Pickin' or mandarin pineapple cake as some call it is a delicious dessert
Servings: 1 Cake
Calories: 528kcal
Ingredients
Cake
- 15.25 oz Yellow Cake Mix
- 4 Eggs
- 1/4 c Vegetable Oil
- 12 oz Canned Mandarin Oranges drained, reserve juice
- 1/2 c Reserved Mandarin Orange Juice
Frosting:
- 5.1 oz Vanilla Pudding Mix such as Jello
- 20 oz Can Crushed Pineapple drained, reserve juice
- 16 oz Whipped Topping thawed (such as Cool Whip)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Combine cake mix, eggs, vegetable oil, mandarin oranges and the mandarin orange juice together. Beat for three to four minutes. Pour batter equally into two greased and floured 9" round pans. This cake is also commonly baked as a sheet cake if preferred.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and set. Remove from oven and cool five minutes before turning out of the pans. Allow the cakes to cool completely before frosting.
- Once the cake is cool, prepare the frosting. Combine the juice from the pineapple with the vanilla pudding mix.
- Add the whipped topping and mix. Stir in the crushed pineapple.
- Frost the cake layers.
- Garnish the top with mandarin orange slices if desired. I reserved a heaping tablespoon of the crushed pineapple for garnish as well.
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Nutrition
Calories: 528kcal | Carbohydrates: 82g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 74mg | Sodium: 309mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 63g