Cakes and Frostings

Orange Date Cake

  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 cup Butter
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 1/3 cups Buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 4 cups Flour
  • 2 tablespoons Grated orange rind
  • 1 pound Chopped dates
  • 1 cup Nuts, black walnuts are best
  • ~ Sauce Ingredients
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 1 cup Orange juice
  • 2 tablespoons Grated orange rind

    • Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Dissolve soda in buttermilk. Add sifted flour in 3 parts alternately with milk. Beat until smooth after each addition. Add orange rind, dates and nuts. Bake in a tube pan 1 1/2 hrs at 325º.

    Sauce: Heat sugar and orange juice till sugar is dissolved. Pour over hot cake into which holes have been punched. Allow cake to cool in pan.

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Rebecca Grant of Greensburg KY. 

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