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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
½ tsp. salt
¾ cup buttermilk


Recipe



Mix ¼ 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 300º oven, almost 2 hours.(test to see if done )

Immediately when removing from oven,pour n syrup of;
½ tsp. grated orange peel
½ tsp. grated lemon peel
¼ cup orange juice
¼ cup lemon juice
½ 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.