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Grandma's Harvey Wallbanger Cake Makeover

My grandmother made Harvey Wallbanger cake at every family function for as long as I can remember. Birthdays, holiday parties, anytime we'd all get together this cake would be at the center of the table, but after grandma passed away and I became more conscientious of the ingredients that we were eating I stopped making the cake. It her version was made with yellow cake mix vanilla pudding mix which both contained artificial colors and flavors and oftentimes palm oil which I'm allergic to. For a few years I've been trying to find a recipe that matched what I remembered from Grandma's Harvey Wallbanger cake but was unable to find it from scratch recipe that really seemed to hit the mark. Finally I've come up with a recipe that matches the taste and texture of my grandma's Harvey Wallbanger recipe but without any of the artificial ingredients that they put in cake mixes and putting mixes now. I hope you enjoy it!

Ingredients: 
1 3/4 C Sugar
3/4 tsp Salt
1 C Oil
2 tsp Vanilla
4 Eggs
3 C All Purpose Flour
1 Tbs Baking Powder
3 Tbs Cornstarch
3/4 C No Pulp Orange Juice
1/4 C Vodka
1/4 C Galliano

Glaze:
1 C Sifted Powdered Sugar
4 Tbs No Pulp Orange Juice
1 Tbs Galliano

Preheat oven to 350°, grease and flour a bundt cake pan or a 13x9 pan and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl mix together sugar, salt, oil, vanilla, and eggs. 
Next mix flour, baking powder, and cornstarch into oil and sugar mixture. Then mix in orange juice,vodka, and Galliano.
Poor mixture into prepared baking pan and bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with no little crumbs attached. Let cake cool for 10 minutes before removing from bundt cake pan. (If baked in a 13x9 pan like cool for 10 minutes but leave in pan.)
While The cake is cooling make your glaze. In a small bowl mixed together powdered sugar, orange juice, and galliano.
If cake was made in a bundt cake pan put bundt cake on a cooling rack over a large plate.
Poor glaze over slightly warm cake. Take the glaze that dripped off the cake and pour back into a bowl repeating the process pouring the glaze over the cake until all the glaze has been absorbed. If made in a 13x9 pan just pour the glaze over the warm cake and all the glaze will soak in. I hope you enjoy this cake as much as we do!

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