Fluffy Mandarin Layer Cake

Name: Fluffy Mandarin Layer Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 1 orange; 6 oz can mandarin oranges with juice reserved; 1 packet of trifle sponges.cut in ½; 4 oz tub of soft margarine; 2 oz icing sugar; 1 sachet Dream Topping or other cream mix; ¼ pt milk; 2 oz green grapes.halved and stoned; 2 tbsp apricot jam.sieved

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Prep: 45 mins

Dessert

Ingredients

1 orange
6 oz can mandarin oranges with juice reserved
1 packet of trifle sponges.cut in ½
4 oz tub of soft margarine
2 oz icing sugar
1 sachet Dream Topping or other cream mix
¼ pt milk
2 oz green grapes.halved and stoned
2 tbsp apricot jam.sieved

Accompaniment

Description

Very tasty cake

Method

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1. Finely grate the rind from the orange and squeeze out the juice.
2. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the orange juice and mix the remaining liquid with the juice from the can of mandarins.
3. Soak the trifle sponges lightly in the liquid.
Retain 10 mandarin segments for decoration and chop the remaining mandarins roughly.
4. Cream the orange rind,margarine and icing sugar together.
5. Make up the Dream Topping according to packet instructions with the milk,then fold this into the creamed mixture with the chopped margarins.
6. Place the layer of sponges,cut side dowm,in the base of the tin,then add a layer of the creamed mixture.Continue layering until the tin is ful.
Place in the fridge until firm.
7. Place the cake on a plate and decorate with halved grapes and mandarins.