Name: Orange Brown Sugar Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 cups All-purpose flour; 2 cups White sugar; 2 Eggs; 2 cans Mandarin orange (11 oz. each), drained; 2 tsp baking soda; 2 tsp vanilla; 1/2 tsp salt *optional; 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed; 3 tablespoons butter; 3 tablespoons milk; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

This too simple, two-simple Orange Brown Sugar Cake is my absolute favorite.

This recipe is too simple: two cups, two eggs, two cans, two teaspoons.

It doesn't get much easier than this, so the girls and I have name it our Two Simple Brown Sugar Cake.

A couple of quick notes:

The first time Shad's mom made this cake for the family, I turned my nose up and asked, "What is that?" It is not exactly beautiful in the final format; it's brown, plain, and delicious.
I never knew there were mandarin oranges in the cake until I asked about the recipe. They get chopped up in the beaters and make the final result unbelievably moist and delicious.
You absolutely must have whipped cream on top. Ice-cream will suffice if whipped cream is not available!

Orange Brown Sugar Cake

Yield: 12 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

This too simple, two-simple Orange Brown Sugar Cake is my absolute favorite.

Ingredients

Cake

2 cups All-purpose flour
2 cups White sugar
2 Eggs
2 cans Mandarin orange (11 oz. each), drained
2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon salt *optional

Topping

¾ cup brown sugar, packed
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons milk
½ teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 325ºF.
Beat all of the cake ingredients for 3 minutes with an electric mixer.
Pour the mixture into a sprayed 9 x 13 pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
While the cake is baking, combine over medium heat the ingredients for the topping in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil for 1 minute.
Pour hot topping on cake immediately after it is removed from the oven.
Serve warm or at room temperature.

Nutrition Information

Yield 12 Serving Size 1
Amount Per Serving Calories 307Total Fat 4gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 39mgSodium 348mgCarbohydrates 65gFiber 1gSugar 48gProtein 4g

Disclaimer: Nutrition calculation is automatically calculated and may be inaccurate.

Seriously delicious.

PS: I gave this post a quick proofread and realized I used the word "delicious" three times.
Thank you to Thesaurus.com for these alternative words which also would describe the recipe well:

delightful, enjoyable, heavenly, rich, sweet, tempting, tasty, yummy, divine, fit for a king, gratifying, scrumptious, tasteful, and my favorite (lol)... titillating.

Image Credits via Flickr Creative Commons:
Mandarin Oranges, SF Chinatown by Gary Stevens
Sugar Cannister by Joanna Bourne
First Root Farm CSA Ninth Pickup #7 Eggs by Tim Sackton
YUM! Mandarin oranges can by Kyle Pearson

Too Simple, "Two" Simple Brown Sugar Cake