Easy Pig Pickin’ Cake

Name: Easy Pig Pickin’ Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 box store-bought white cake mix; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 4 egg whites; 2/3 cup water; 1-15 ounce can of mandarin oranges undrained, divided; 2/3 cup juice from the mandarin oranges can; 1-5.1- ounce Vanilla Pudding mix (instant); 1-20 ounce can of crushed pineapples undrained; 1 16- ounce container Whipped topping

by Rhonda | Fun Country Life

12 servings

40 min

This old-fashioned cake recipe, which is full of mandarin oranges, pineapple, and whip cream, has been around for generations. Whether you call this a Mandarin Orange Cake, a Pig Pickin’ Cake, or a Pig Lickin’ Cake, your family will call it delicious!

This time-tested Southern classic cake is so easy to make you'll be wondering why you haven't made it before!

Ingredients

Using a store-bought cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, whipped topping, mandarin oranges, crushed pineapple, and unsalted butter, this cake goes together quickly.

Assembling the cake

Did I mention how easy this cake is to make?

A piece of cake on a fork

Believe me when I say that once your family tries this amazing cake, you'll understand why there is such a following and why it continues to be served at hog roasts, family reunions, family get togethers, and for any reason at all.

Pig Pickin Cake on a white cake stand

Easy Pig Pickin’ Cake

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Recipe details

Yield 12 servings
Time spent: Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 30 Minutes Total time: 40 min

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Instructions

Prepare 2 round cake pans with grease and flour.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Add the cake mix, vegetable oil, water, mandarin oranges juice and egg whites in a mixing bowl and beat on medium until it is combined.
Add in 1 ¼ cup of oranges and beat on medium high for 1 minute. The oranges will break up during the mixing process.
Divide the cake batter between the 2 cake pans and bake according to the directions on the cake box. To test to see if the cake is done, use a toothpick or a cake tester and stick it in the middle of the cake. If the tester comes out clean, the cake is done. If it comes out with batter still on it, put it back into the oven and check at 5 minute increments.
Let the cakes cool completely.
Meanwhile, while the cakes are cooling, mix half of the whipped topping together with the pudding.
Fold in the rest of the whipped topping along with the pineapple.
Add some of the frosting in between the layers of cake and use the rest to frost the outside of the cake.

Comments

DeNise Bloodworth on Mar 17, 2022

Left out when you incorporate the pineapple in this recipe .

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- Kok6517775 on Mar 17, 2022
  
  Step 8
  
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- Jan piner on Mar 17, 2022
  
  Step number 8
  pineapple in frosting ☺️
  
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- Karen on Mar 18, 2022
  
  One of my family favorites. We call it sunshîne cake.
  
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- Sjs15766055 on Mar 19, 2022
  
  Step 8
  
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- Debbie on Mar 17, 2023
  
  It gets mixed in the whip topping for frosting
  
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Gg on Mar 18, 2022

Instant pudding? Or the kind you cook ??

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- Rhonda | Fun Country Life on Mar 18, 2022
  
  It's instant. Thanks for catching that. I will update the post.
  
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