Orange Candy Cake

Ingredients

• 1 c butter
• 5 eggs
• 1 8 oz pkg dates
• 2 c chopped pecans
• 1 4 oz can shredded coconut
• 12 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 34 c buttermilk
• 2 c sugar
• 1 Tbsp vanilla
• 1 lb orange candy slices cut in small pieces
• 4 c plain flour sifted 14 c to dredge fruits and nuts 3 34 c to mix into batter

Directions

1. Turn oven to 300
2. Beat butter and
3. sugar
4. until it is fluffy
5. Add eggs beating well after
6. each
7. addition
8. Mix in vanilla
9. Measure 3 34 cups of sifted
10. flour
11. andsift
12. with baking
13. soda
14. and
15. salt
16. Add
17. flour
18. mixture
19. andbuttermilk alternately to cake batter
20. Mix chopped dates chopped orange candy chopped nuts and coconut in 14
21. cup
22. flour
23. Mix well Fold this fruit-nut mixture into the
24. cake batterGrease and flour a 10-inch tube pan
25. Spoon batter into pan and bake in a slow oven 300 for 2 12 hours