Orange Slice Candy Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
5 eggs
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 (8 oz.) pkg. dates, chopped
1 lb. pkg. orange slice candy, cut into small pieces
2 c. chopped nuts
4 oz. shredded coconut
4 c. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
3/4 c. buttermilk

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Beat in 1 egg at a time. Add vanilla.
Mix dates, candy, nuts and coconut with 1/4 cup of flour.
Sift remaining ingredients.
Alternately fold into creamed mixture with buttermilk.
Fold in fruit/nut mixture.
Spoon into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
Bake in slow oven at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours.
Remove cake from oven.