Orange crush cake

This cake is also called Mirinda cake or Fanta cake in Hungary, but can really be prepared with any kind of orange juice. I would have preferred a less chocolaty version, since my favorite part of the cake is the toppings. So, feel free to use any kind of sponge cake as the bottom layer. The recipe here is for a 9 inch round baking shape, inspired by the one on wiselady's site, which I found slightly too sweet for my taste.

Ingredients
cake:
3 eggs
100g flour
20g cocoa powder
50g sugar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
0.25 tsp vinegar
salt

filling:
250g cottage cheese
75g butter
100g icing sugar
1 tsp lemon zest
0.5 tbsp vanilla sugar/extract

topping:
1 package vanilla pudding (for 500mL milk)
1 tbsp sugar
300mL orange juice

Preparation
Cut out a baking paper for the bottom of the shape. Place in the shape and carefully oil it, without getting any oil on the sides. Preheat the oven to 350F.

Sift the cocoa powder with the flour and salt. Using an electronic mixer, whip the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes until a white foam forms. Add the vinegar and continue whipping for 3 more minutes.

Fold in the flour and cocoa powder mixture in thirds. Add in the oil at last, to avoid deflating the cake.

Pour into the baking shape and pull up the dough so it sticks to the sides. This will yield a nice, flat cake. Bake for 5 minutes at 350F, then lower the heat to 320F and continue baking for 20 more minutes without opening the oven.

When cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool in the baking shape.
Meanwhile, mix the ingredients for the filling.

When the cake is cool, cut it around the edge and remove from the shape. Peel off the paper from the bottom, which should be on the top in the assembled cake.

Place back the ring of the baking shape and top with the cream. Cool for 30 minutes.

Mix the vanilla pudding with the sugar, then add the soda and cook. I don't know if this would work with the no-cook versions of the pudding. Someone should test it!

When the pudding mixture got thick, remove from the stove. Allow to cool and spread on top of the cake.

Cool before slicing!

And enjoy!

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