Bourbon Date Nut Cake
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter or 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 6 medium eggs
- 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 cup Bourbon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 lb finely chopped pecans
- 7 1⁄4 ounces pitted dates, chopped
- 3 tablespoons coconut
directions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Butter and flour an angel food pan or bundt pan.
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Drop in eggs, one at a time, and stir after each addition.
- Sift flour, baking powder and nutmeg together, reserving 1/4 cup flour to dredge the nuts.
- Add the flour mixture, bourbon, almond and vanilla alternately.
- Flour the nuts, dates and coconut; fold into cake batter.
- Pour this mixture into the cake pan.
- Cover the cake with foil for the first few hours of the baking period, removing the foil at your discretion depending on how brown you want it to become.
- Place a pan of water in the oven to prevent cracking.
- Bake the cake for six hours-- Yes! That really is 250 degrees for 6 hours!
- Note: You might want to add more bourbon if 1 cup is not enough as some people really like it soaked.
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Stella Mae
United States
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