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Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting

By Rachael | Updated on May 18, 2020

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Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting, also known as Pig Pickin’ Cake, is a Southern tradition that starts with a cake mix, and is so transformed you won’t believe it. This cake is absolutely delicious, and always a crowd favorite with mandarin oranges and crushed pineapple giving it a fun fruity flavor.

Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting or pig pickin' cake is delicious yellow cake with fruity highlights. It is a family favorite

I may not be Southern, but I can appreciate good Southern traditions, and nothing makes me happier than food traditions. This particular food tradition makes me really really happy.  It’s called Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting, also known as Pig Pickin’ Cake.

Especially because this Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting is so ridiculously easy to make. Now I know a lot of recipes claim to be easy, but this one is. It starts with a cake mix, and uses  easy to find ingredients to take simple things and make them magical!

Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting or pig pickin' cake is delicious yellow cake with fruity highlights

Why is it called “Pig Pickin”? Well in the American South there is a tradition where towns people get together and roast a whole pig in the ground. It is taken very seriously, and everyone brings sides and their favorites. When the pig is done cooking, everyone picks off the meat. What a great tradition! And it wouldn’t be a complete meal without a pig pickin’ cake, now would it?

This Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting is awesome because you get sweet and citrusy, but with simplicity. Now everyone makes it a little differently, some use a vanilla cake mix, some a yellow cake mix, and I like to use a yellow butter cake mix. That extra butter flavor is just so nice. And the freshness of pineapple and mandarin oranges make it decadent and delicious without being too heavy. The frosting is easy and impossible to screw up, which is another big plus of this cake. It is vanilla pudding, crushed pineapple, and whipped topping. And you just slather it on!

Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting or pig pickin' cake is delicious yellow cake with fruity highlights

Tips for making Pig Pickin’ Cake:

  • Preheat the oven fully. This will help the cake cook evenly.
  • Follow the boxed cake mix instructions for baking. Depending on the cake mix you use you may need to bake longer or shorter, or at a different temp.
  • Cool the cake completely. You do not want to put whipped topping on a hot cake, it will melt it, and it won’t be nearly as good.
  • Feel free to sub in a homemade stabilized whipped cream if you don’t like whipped topping. This Easy Turtle Poke Cake recipe has a recipe for stabilized whipped cream in it.
  • Adding some extra pineapple and mandarin oranges on top make it look so nice, but everyone will love the flavor so much they may not care what it looks like.
  • Make your Pig Pickin’ Cake a layer cake by baking in two 8 inch
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    . Then use some of the frosting in the center.

Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting or pig pickin' cake is delicious yellow cake with fruity highlights

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Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting or pig pickin' cake is delicious yellow cake with fruity highlights

Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Fluff Frosting

A southern classic, this pig pickin' cake or Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple fluff frosting is sure to be a hit. Great flavors, and oh so easy to make.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: mandarin orange cake, pineapple frosting
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 12
Calories: 266kcal
Author: Rachael

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 box yellow cake mix 15.25 ounces
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs beaten
  • 1 can mandarin oranges 11 ounces

Pineapple Fluff Frosting

  • 1 large can 15.5 ounces crushed pineapple
  • 1 large box 5.1 ounces Vanilla instant pudding mix
  • 1 large container 16 ounces whipped topping

Garnish (optional)

  • More mandarin oranges
  • Sliced pineapple

Instructions

  • In a mixing bowl combine yellow cake mix, vegetable oil, whisked/beaten eggs, and mandarin oranges including the juice.
  • Use a Hand Mixerto mix until well blender.
  • Pour into a greased Cake Pan.
  • Tap on the counter a couple times to get air bubbles out.
  • Bake according to cake mix box instructions.
  • Once baked, remove from oven and let cool.
  • While cooling, combine canned crushed pineapple and vanilla instant pudding.
  • Fold in whipped topping.
  • Top cooled cake.
  • Garnish with mandarin oranges and sliced pineapple and enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 266kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 54mg | Sodium: 336mg | Potassium: 68mg | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 350IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 102mg | Iron: 1.2mg

Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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  1. Linda gardner says

    October 30, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    This is wonderful favorite for all’
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