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Cake-Orange Slice Cake

Source of Recipe

copykat.com


Recipe Introduction

the orange slices mentioned here are the Brach's orange candy....

List of Ingredients




1 cup Butter
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
2 cups Chopped Pecans
1 lb. Orange Slices (cut into small pieces)
2 cups Chopped Dates
3 1/2 cups Flour
1/2 cup Buttermilk (add 1 tsp. soda to buttermilk)

Glaze:
1 cup Orange Juice
2 cups Powered Sugar




Recipe

Procedure:

1. Cream together butter sugar and eggs.
2. Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
3. Roll chopped pecans, orange slices and dates together.
4. Fold in the candy, dates and nuts to the dough mix.
5. Bake in tube pan at 250º for 2 1/2 hours.
6. Mix together orange juice and powdered sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves.
7. When cake is taken from the oven, slowly drizzle this mixture over the top of cake, still in pan.
8. Let set overnight.