Gifts in a Jar Recipes

Orange Slice Cake Mix in a Can

Empty (14 to 16 ounce) fruit or vegetable cans
3/4 cup orange cake mix
3 orange slice candies

Cut each candy slice into 6 small pieces each. Mix candies with the cake mix. Place mixture into a zip-type sandwich bag. Place bag into a 14-16 ounce decorated can.

Attach a recipe card with the following instructions:

Orange Slice Cake

Remove mix from the can. Empty bag of mix into a medium bowl. Add 1 tablespoon water, 1 tablespoon oil and 1 egg. Mix well. Remove any labels or decorations from can. Grease can with oil - pour a little oil in and swirl around to coat sides, then pour out excess. (Don't spray can with cooking spray - recipe will not work in a sprayed can.) Spoon batter into can. Put can onto a cookie sheet and put into oven and bake for 32-35 minutes at 350 degrees F. Cake is done when a bamboo skewer placed in middle of cake comes out with no wet batter sticking to it. When cake is done, let it cool 15 minutes in the can. Run plain table knife around edge of cake to loosen it from the can. Shake can to allow cake to slide out.

To serve, cut cake into slices the desired thickness. These cakes are also good in other flavors too: lemon cake mix plus lemon slice candy; strawberry cake with strawberry or cherry slices; pineapple cake with pineapple slices.