Orange Candy Cake--Grandmother Gilbert's
List of Ingredients
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla
1-8oz pkg dates, cut up
1 pound orange slice candy, cut up
2 cups chopped nuts
1- can (4oz) coconut
4 cups all purpose flour, sifted
� tsp. salt
� cup buttermilk
Recipe
Mix � cup flour with dates, candy, nuts and coconut; set aside
Cream butter and sugar till fluffy;
beat in eggs one at a time
Add vanilla
Sift remaining dry ingredients; alternately fold into creamed mixture with buttermilk.
fold in fruit and nut mixture.
Spoon into greased and floured bundt pan.or 10 in tube pan.
Bake in 300� oven, almost 2 hours.(test to see if done )
Immediately when removing from oven,pour n syrup of;
� tsp. grated orange peel
� tsp. grated lemon peel
� cup orange juice
� cup lemon juice
� cup powdered sugar.
Cool cake on rack;then remove from pan.
Wrap in foil; refrigerate at least 1 full day before serving.
You can also bake this in 2 loaf pans, about 1 hr. 35 mins.
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