Flo's Cakes - Walnut Orange Coffee Cake

Walnut Orange Coffee Cake

1 cup quick-cooking oats

1 ½ cups orange juice

½ cup butter

1 ½ cups sugar

½ cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 ¾ cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

¼ tsp cinnamon

½ cup chopped walnuts

1 TBSP grated orange peel

Topping:

1 ½ cups brown sugar

¾ cup butter

3 TBSP grated orange peel

3 TBSP orange juice

3 cups flaked coconut

1 ½ cups chopped walnuts

In a small bowl, stir oats and orange juice until softened; set aside. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars; beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; add to the creamed mixture alternately with oat mixture. Stir in walnuts and orange peel. Pour into a greased 13x9 pan. Bake at 350˚ for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. In a small saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter, orange peel and juice. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; stir in coconut and walnuts. Gently spread over warm cake. Broil 4 inches from the heat for 2 minutes or until the topping is bubbly.


Florence lives in the northwoods of Michigan with her husband and three preschoolers. Her hobbies are writing and baking coffee cakes. A few  months ago she published a book titled My First Deer Hunt. This is a children’s story about the time her husband took their oldest son (then four-years-old) to the woods for his first hunting trip.  Email Flo at foxden @emypeople.net.