Sunshine Orange Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups cake flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg yolk
4 egg whites
confectioners' sugar (to garnish)
orange strip (to garnish)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350*.
Spray a 6 cup decorative or plain tube pan with vegetable cooking spray.
Dust with flour.
Set aside.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, combine buttermilk, orange juice and grated orange peel.
Mix well.
In a large bowl, stir together 1 cup sugar, oil, and egg yolk until crumbs form.
Stir in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
In a medium mixing bowl, using an electric mixer set on high speed, beat egg whites until soft peaks form.
Beat in remaining sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, until stiff peaks form.
Gently fold egg whites into batter.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
Place on a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes.
Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely.
Sprinkle with confectioners sugar; garnish with orange peel strips.