Date-Nut Fruitcake Recipe

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Unlike traditional fruitcake, with its dark color and dense texture, this fruitcake is light-colored and light-textured, flavored with orange, coconut, date, raisins and nuts. It was baked in a fluted cake pan to give it a different shape.—Linda Ault, Newberry, Indiana

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Date-Nut Fruitcake Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 1 hour 25 min. + cooling

Yield: 16 Servings

20 85 105

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons grated orange peel
GLAZE:
1/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon grated orange peel

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs; mix well. Combine flour and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir in the coconut, raisins, dates, pecans and orange peel.
Spoon into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 300° for 85-95 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Place a piece of waxed paper under rack.
In a small saucepan, bring the sugar and orange juice to a boil; boil for 1 minute. Stir in orange peel. Poke holes in cake with a long wooden skewer; gradually spoon glaze over fruitcake. Cool completely. Yield: 16 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 slice) equals 475 calories, 20 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 84 mg cholesterol, 236 mg sodium, 70 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 6 g protein.

Originally published as Date-Nut Fruitcake in Taste of Home December/January 2004, p10