Date Nut Cake With Orange Glaze
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This Date Nut Cake With Orange Glaze recipe comes from Jingle Bells and Pastry Shells, circa 1968.
The original recipe was called Orange Glazed Date Cake, and I changed a few things, including swapping butter for the margarine, and vanilla for the Curacao.
The cake is delicious on its own, but is also nice spread with butter or cream cheese.
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This lovely bundt cake stays moist due to the orange glaze, and serves a lot of people. Don’t worry that it looks dark–it doesn’t “taste” dark (burned).
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1-1/2 hours
- Category: Baking
- Method: baking
Ingredients
1-1/2 cups butter, softened
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
3-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups buttermilk
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup chopped walnuts
1-1/2 Tablespoons grated orange zest
2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
Glaze:
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup orange juice
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar.
Add the eggs, one at a time.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
On low speed, alternate beating in the dry ingredients and the buttermilk.
Add in the vanilla extract.
In a small bowl, combine the dates, nuts, orange peel, and the 2 Tablespoons of flour.
Gently stir into the batter.
Pour into a greased and floured (I HIGHLY recommend using Baker’s Joy) 9 inch or 10 inch tube/Bundt pan.
Bake 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours, or until the cake pulls away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out cleanly.
In a saucepan, combine the sugar and orange juice, and heat just until the sugar is melted.
Using a skewer, poke holes into the bottom of the cake, and spoon a few Tablespoons of the hot glaze onto it.
Let cool completely before removing the cake from the pan, then spoon the remaining glaze onto the top of the cake.
