Yield: 8 servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
1 cup | Butter |
2 cups | Sugar |
4 eaches | Eggs |
1 teaspoon | Salt |
1 teaspoon | Baking powder |
1 cup | Buttermilk |
2½ cup | All-purpose flour |
⅓ cup | All purpose flour to coat fruits and nuts |
1½ teaspoon | Vanilla |
1 cup | Chopped dates |
1 pounds | Candy orange slices, diced |
2 cups | Chopped pecans |
3 ounces | Sweetened coconut, flaked |
1 cup | Fresh orange juice |
2 cups | Confectioners' sugar |
Cream butter, sugar, eggs and salt. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk and add alternately with flour into the egg-sugar mixture.
Add candy slices, nuts, dates and coconut. Bake in well greased and floured tube pan at 275 degrees for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Bake until cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Mix range juice and confectioners' sugar and pour over cake in pan while still hot. Leave in pan until cold. Cake will absorb juice and sugar and will come out of pan nicely.
Calories per serving: Number of Servings: 8 Fat grams per serving: Approx. Cook Time: Cholesterol per serving: Marks:
Submitted By MARY SMITH On 01-27-95