![]() Add extract vanilla and orange extracts to the milk. Cream room temperature butter and sugar for 3 minutes on med low with paddle attachment. Incorporate room temperature eggs one at a time. Preheat oven to 350. Whisk cake flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in large bowl. Add approximately 3/4 cup of crunch mixture to each pan and press down evenly with palm of hand until bottom is covered & smooth. Add more if desired. This will help the cake not stick to the bottom. Trace the bottom of three 8″cake pans on parchment paper and cut out 3 circles. Oil or butter pans well and lay parchment paper circles in bottom of pans. Oil top of parchment paper lightly. Pulse the graham crackers & toasted almonds in food processor or blender about 6 times. The end result will still be sweet glorious cake! Orange Crunch Cake:īegin by preheating the oven to 325 degrees and toast slivered blanched almonds on a lined baking sheet until light golden brown and aromatic. Cool almonds for 5 minutes. By far the best success yet! The original recipe calls for boxed cake, but I’m just not a fan of boxed cake mixes, for various reasons, but feel free to use which ever you desire. Kitchen Prescription and I enjoyed this cake for Easter dessert. Turns out, I wasn’t that far off and only had to make a few minor adjustments. I haven’t purchased the book yet, but the sleuth in me led me to someone who has the book and posted the recipe in a forum. The recipes are a collection of stories and the many dishes and desserts the restaurant is well known for. She sold it in 1989 to concentrate on her art, but she published a coffee table book of her art and original recipes, appropriately called A Bubble Moment. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon the baker of the famous desserts, Katie Gardenia, online, when I discovered Katie was one of the owner’s of The Bubble Room and would bake her desserts at her North Captiva home and bring them by boat over to the restaurant. I’ve since figured out it was the butter added to the mixture that was creating the problem. The crunch layers always seemed too crunchy! Almost like a toffee. I have experimented baking this cake for well over three years now. It’s a citrus-y moist yellow cake with a brown sugar & almond crunch nestled between the layers and covered with an orange flavored cream cheese buttercream frosting. It’s unlike any cake you have probably ever eaten before. No words can accurately describe the awesomeness of this cake. This keeps you from being a total loser and insulting the Bubble Scouts.Ĭue Orange Crunch cake. Or better yet, you can get dessert to go. If you pass this up, no matter how full you are, quite frankly, you’re not a true Bubble Room aficionado. Once you are stuffed to the gills, the Bubble Scouts (servers) bring around a tray of GINORMOUS desserts. Gosh, my mouth is waterin’ just thinking about all this delicious food. May I make a suggestion? If you ever go there, some favorites to try are the flaming Socra cheese, Gone With The Fin grouper, and of course, all entrees come with their world famous Bubble Bread and sticky buns. Basically, it looks like anyone’s grandmother’s house, who may or may not have been a recovering hoarder. It’s well known for its mismatched christmas decorations, trains, vintage toys, and movie memorabilia crammed into every nook and cranny… top to bottom. The Bubble Room is a quirky colorful little restaurant situated on Captiva Island. We frequently went to The Bubble Room for dinner and my sister ALWAYS raved about the Orange Crunch cake. I would visit them from time to time for a weekend. It was only a scenic 3 hour drive over from the east coast where I lived, through Alligator Alley on to Naples and then Fort Myers. When I first moved to Florida, my sister and her family often vacationed on Sanibel/Captiva Island. This Orange Crunch Cake was inspired by the famous Bubble Room on Captiva Island along the west coast of Florida. Why? Because it held the end result that we all wanted. Despite all our second and third degree childhood burns, we kept going back to our Easy Bake Ovens… bandaged and soldiering on. Whoever thought of the idea of a light bulb baking a cake was pure genius. You’ll be fine.” As you bolted… hysterical to the freezer, your dad yells out behind you, “Is the cake done?” Yeah, that time. Remember that time you burned yourself on your Easy Bake Oven, and ran crying to your mother? “Put some ice on it honey. It has a brown sugar and almond crunch nestled between the layers that elevates this cake to the next level. This copycat Orange Crunch Cake just like The Bubble Room is full of real orange flavor with a cream cheese frosting.
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