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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.

 

 

 


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