We have a bride to be that wants to taste test a lemon flavored cake and an orange flavored cake for her wedding. Does anyone have recipes for these two flavors. I usually like a dense and moist cake but am willing to try everything 
. The tasting is in 2 days. Thanks.
Duncan Hines makes a very good orange cake & probably a lemon too. (Lemon is not one of my favorites so I've never looked.)
Anyway, if you adapt the ingredients for the White Almond Sour Cream cake - you'll have a great cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2322-White-Almond-Sour-Cream-Cake.html
HTH
I put a lemon cake mix and a white cake mix together and used 6 egg whites, the required amount of oil and water and just a splash of lemon extract. It was lighter than the lemon cake mix by itself, and really delicious. I filled it with lemon curd spread thinly and a layer of Bavarian cream with lemon curd mixed in, ice in IMBC. People were coming back for seconds and in some cases, thirds. You could add some lemon zest to the mixes as well.
it's not scratch, but try Margie's lemon cake
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2383-Margies-Lemon-Cake-Recipe.html
I haven't made this one, but my mom made the Margie's Incredible Chocolate Cake and the recipes are very similar. It is a moist, dense incredibly tasty cake...
I'm new to the forum & openly admit that I'm *not* one who knows a thing about decorating cakes. I just love baking cakes from scracth for my family & have found all of you to be such great people with tons of talent that I'll never possess. That said, I have an orange cake recipe from scratch that was handed down from my grandmother. I found it in her handwritten recipes & have made it many times when my children were younger.... & my own diet wasn't so restricted! 
This cake is *very* dense & I questio if it is best for layers. Likely a trial run of this would be best to get a "feel" for texture or any tweaking you might care to do. 
Please forgive me if this isn't a suitable recipe for this forum as I'm learning about the site as I go along.
Orange Cake
3/4 cup shortening (I always used margarine or butter which worked fine)
1 1/2 cup sugar
3 beaten egg yolks
3 stiffly beaten egg whites
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 cup cold water
1/4 cup orange juice
Preheat oven to 350º
Grease & flour 9x13 pan (or equivilent sized pans)
Cream shortening & sugar
Add egg yolks & beat well
Add sifted dry ingredients alternating with water and orange juice
Fold in egg whites
Bake for 30 - 35 minutes
Hopefully this is a decent recipe for someone at some time. 
A lemon box mix, made like normal but with the addition of a box of lemon pudding (3.4 oz, I think) makes the cake dense and incredible moist. I just made one, but with two boxes of pudding on accident, and it still came out great!
Crissy
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