Recipe

Orange Date Nut Cake Recipe

	Notyourmomma / All my dishes 10 months, 1 week ago A dense intensely flavored orange cake. An alternative to fruit cake, keeps forever and tastes wonderful, especially topped with a dollop of custard sauce. Prep:20m Cook:65m Servings:24	Notyourmomm
	dense intense orange date nut cake brandy sauce

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Ingredients

1 cup of unsalted butter, finest kind

2 cups of sugar

4 whole eggs

4 cups of flour

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 package of chopped dates

1 cup of chopped pecans

Sauce:

3/4 cup of fresh orange juice

3/4 cup of brandy

2 cups of sugar

1 tablespoon of grated orange rind

Directions

Cream butter and sugar well.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between additions.

Mix 1/4 cup of flour with the dates and nuts.

Sift remaining flour with soda.

Add milk and flour alternately to the butter mixture.

Add dates and nuts.

Put waxed paper in the bottom of a large tube pan.

Grease the sides and the paper.

Pour in the batter.

Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

While the cake is still hot, pour on your sauce and let it soak in.

How to make the sauce:

Heat the orange juice in small sauce pan and add the sugar, stir until the sugar dissolves completely.

Off the heat stir in the brandy.

Pour over the hot cake and let it cool in the pan.

Store in air tight container to ripen.

Mema called this a Christmas Cake and it is wonderful with a dollop of whipped cream or my cheap version of cream sauce...melted good quality vanilla ice cream.

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Comments

borinda 10 months, 1 week ago said:
Mema must have been a wonder! Did you wish Christmas would come early just to eat this?

notyourmomma 10 months, 1 week ago said:
Absolutely...it was so good. I'm a sucker for orange and citrus of any kind. This never lasted long at the house and it made great gifts that were graciously "asked for" year after year. Mom always complained at the cost of pecans but she made it Mema's way despite the cost. Some traditions are just meant to be kept.