Orange Date Cake
By: Anonymous
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 - 1:32am

Ingredients




3/4 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
3 Eggs
1 cup Buttermilk
2 cups Flour
1 Grated orange rind
1 cup Cut-up dates
1 cup Ground nuts
1 teaspoon (heaping) soda
3/4 cup Sugar
1 1/2 cups Orange juice

Preparation

1 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Drop in whole eggs and beat well. Stir soda into buttermilk and add to mixture; gradually add flour, beating well; add orange rind. Fold in nuts and dates. Bake in greased bundt pan at 350 for 1 hour. Have ready 3/4 cup sugar and orange juice. 2 Remove cake from pan, stir juice and sugar and spoon over cake.