Brown-Eyed Susan Cake

Name: Brown-Eyed Susan Cake
Ingredients: 1 , recipe yellow cake batter for two 9-inch pans; 5 ounces (142 grams), unsweetened chocolate, melted; 2 teaspoons, grated orange zest plus 1 tablespoon juice from 1 orange; 4 cups, easy vanilla buttercream; , Yellow food coloring (optional); , Semisweet chocolate chips; , candied orange peel

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cakes
Great American Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2005

In the 1950s, garden-themed cakes started cropping up in cookbooks like wildflowers and took on names such as chrysanthemum and pink azalea. The Brown-Eyed Susan Cake, with the flavors of orange and chocolate, is one of our favorites from this period.

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