Orange Slice Cake
By: Anonymous
Published: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 2:10am

Ingredients




1 cup Butter
2 cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 pound Gumdrops, large -- Orange slices
14 ounces Dates -- diced
2 cups Nuts -- chopped
1 cup Coconut -- flaked
4 cups Flour -- unsifted
1 cup Orange Juice
1 cup Powdered Sugar -- unsifted

Preparation

1 In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until well blended; add eggs and mix well. Add soda to buttermilk in a small bowl; stir into first mixture. 2 Add flour, mix well and add remaining ingredients; mix well. Pour into a prepared 9 x 13 inch baking pan. Bake 2 hours at 300 degrees F. Place a pan of water in oven until last 45 minutes to keep cake moist. When cake comes out of oven, mix orange juice and powdered sugar in a small bowl. While cake is hot, pour orange juice & powdered sugar mixture over cake and let stand overnight to cool and set. RF4RP