Orange Slice Candy Cake

By á-24813

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk with 1 tsp. soda dissolved in it
• 3 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1 8 oz. box chopped dates
• 1 cup (3 1/2 oz.)coconut
• 2 cups chopped pecans
• 1 lb. orange slice candy,cut fine

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs, flour and buttermilk.
Add nuts,coconut,dates and candy. Mix well by hand.

Bake 2 1/2 hours.

Icing
1/2 cup orange juice and 1 1/2 cups 10x sugar. Heat and pour over cake as soon as it is taken from the oven. Let stand over night in pan.Run knife aroun edge of pan and tube, then put in warm oven for a few minutes and it will come out easier.