cakes, desserts
Date Nut Cake
Recipe By: Light Crust Flour
Source:
Mom's Black Book
URL: http://nalbone.us/recipes/
Servings: 20
Yield: 1 Cake
Preparation Time: 0:20
Start to Finish Time: 1:50
NOTES : Allow several hours to overnight for the glaze to soak into the cake before removing from the pan.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 8 ounces dates -- (chopped)
Glaze:
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons grated orange rind
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
- Cream sugar and butter together.
- Beat eggs and add to the butter and sugar. Beat together.
- Sift together LIGHT CRUST flour, soda and salt.
- Alternately mix in creamed mixture and buttermilk
- Add orange rind, dates and pecans.
- Pour into greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours or until it tests done.
- When cake is done and before removing from pan, while still hot, punch many holes in cake all the way to the bottom with ice pick or skewer.
Prepare glaze
- Dissolve sugar and orange juice in small saucepan over fire. Do not boil.
- Add orange rind.
- Pour hot glaze over cake. Let glaze drip into holes in cake. if cake has not pulled away from sides and tube of pan, loosen with a knife, so that some of the glaze runs down sides and center of cake. Let cake stand in in pan for several hours (or overnight).
- Cake must be entirely cool before removing from pan. Decorate top of cake with pecans as desired.
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 416 Calories; 15g Fat (30.9% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 69g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 68mg Cholesterol; 245mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 Fruit; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 2 1/2 Fat; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0