Orange slice candy cake

8 servings

Ingredients

Quantity 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

Directions

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

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