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Orange Velvet Pound Cake

1 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
7 eggs
2 teaspoons orange extract
1 ounce orange food coloring (or 1/2 oz red and 1/2 oz yellow)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk

Cream Cheese frosting
8 ounces cream cheese
1 stick butter
1 pound confectioner's sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
milk, if needed

Directions: For Cake, beat together shortening and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flavoring and food coloring. Mix salt with flour and add alternately with milk. Turn into a large tube pan and bake at 350 degreese for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake tests done. Allow to cool and frost with cream cheese frosting.

For frosting, soften cream cheese and butter to room temperature. Beat together with flat paddle blade of mixer. Beat in confectioner's sugar and vanilla. If too firm, add milk, 1 teaspoon at a time until the consistency desired.
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