Orange Date-Nut Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 9x13 cake
ingredients
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
- 4 cups sugar, divided
- 4 large eggs
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1⁄2 cups buttermilk
- 1 (8 ounce) package sugared dates, chopped
- 1 cup pecans, toasted, chopped
- 4 teaspoons orange rind, grated, divided
- 1 cup orange juice
directions
- Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy. Gradually add 2 cups sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
- Combine flour and baking soda; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat a low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in dates, pecans and 2 tablespoons orange rind. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
- Bake at 350F for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comed out clean.
- Bring orange juice, remaining sugar and remaining rind to a boil in a saucepan; cool 1 minutes, stirring constantly. Gently, run a knife around edge of the cake; punch holes in the cake with a wooden pick. Drizzle glaze over warm cake. Let cool in pan on a wire rack.
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