Recipe for Orange Juice Cake

Orange Juice Cake

Ingredients

.....2 cups sugar
.....3/4 cup butter, softened
.....2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
.....1 cup buttermilk
.....3 eggs
.....1 teaspoon salt
.....1 teaspoon baking soda
.....1 teaspoon vanilla extract
.....1 cup chopped dark seedless raisins
.....1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
.....3 tablespoons grated orange peel
.....1/2 cup orange juice

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 or 10 inch tube pan. In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat 1 1/2 cups sugar and butter until fluffy; at low speed, beat in flour, buttermilk, eggs, salt, soda and vanilla until well mixed, constantly scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Beat at medium speed 3 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl.

Stir in raisins, pecans and orange peel. Pour batter into pan and bake 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cook cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and place on wire rack over a sheet of waxed paper.

While cake is still very warm, in small bowl, stir orange juice with 1/2 cup sugar and pour over cake, spooning any drips from waxed paper back over cake. Cool completely.

Yield: 12 to 16 servings