Orange Candy Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. grated orange rind
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1/2 c. buttermilk
3 c. flour
24 diced orange candy slices
2 c. pecans, chopped
2 (8 oz.) pkg. chopped dates
1 c. flaked coconut

Preparation

Dredge diced orange candy slices, dates, pecans and coconut with 1/4 cup flour. Cream the butter and sugar.
Beat in eggs, one at a time.
Add orange rind. Sift together flour, salt, and soda. Add to butter (sugar) egg mixture alternately with buttermilk. Add candy mixture.
Grease and put wax paper in 2 loaf pans.
Bake at 300\u00b0 for 1 1/2 hours.
Turn out and cool.
One batch also makes 7 mini pans.
Freezes well.