Date Cake Recipe is Potica Cake if learning How to Bake a Cake

Some call this a date cake recipe and others refer to it as the cranberry cake recipe because it contains equal amounts of both. It has been on my list of Christmas cake recipes for many years and it is delicious. When adding to my holiday recipes, I always look for good fruit and nut recipes. These along with a variety of flavors and spices seem necessary for my holiday baking. (Maybe it is the aroma that I like.) Many people say they don’t like fruit cake recipes but there are so many completely different tastes and textures. This one is not a traditional fruitcake recipe but still is a fruit cake and the orange sauce adds still another flavor. I also like the fruitcake recipes because they are firm and heavy. This allows me to cut nice small pieces of them and place on trays with my Christmas cookie recipes.

DATE CAKE RECIPE

• 2 ½ Cups flour


• ¼ Teaspoon salt


• 1 Teaspoon baking soda


• 1 Teaspoon baking powder


• 2 Eggs


• 1 Cup buttermilk


• ¾ Cup vegetable oil


• 1 Cup sugar


• 1 Cups chopped nuts


• 1 Cup chopped dates


• 1 Cup fresh whole cranberries

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl combine and mix the eggs, buttermilk, sugar and oil. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Stir in the dates and cranberries and mix until well blended. Pour batter into a greased 10 inch tube baking pan or a bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour or until cake test done. Remove from oven and cool 15 minutes or 20 minutes; remove from pan to a deep serving dish. Add the following orange sauce recipe.

ORANGE SAUCE RECIPE

• 1 Cup sugar


• 1 Cup orange juice

Combine the sugar and orange juice and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Slowly drip liquid over the cake until all of it is soaked in the cake. Cover and refrigerate the cake. Can be served by the slice with whipped cream or cut smaller pieces to serve on a plate with other assortment of cakes and cookies.

The following date cake recipe is called a Potica cake. It is a traditional holiday cake for the Slovenian countries. Unlike most of our cake recipes it is made with yeast dough. It is made in layers but during the baking it all becomes one cake. And very delicious!

POTICA CAKE

• 1 Cup butter


• ½ Cup milk


• 2 Packages dry yeast


• ¼ Cup lukewarm water


• 2 ½ Cups flour


• ¼ Teaspoon salt


• 2 Tablespoons sugar


• 3 Egg yolks beaten

Heat butter and milk until butter melts.

Mix yeast in lukewarm water

Sift flour, sugar and salt together.

Stir the beaten egg yolks into the milk mixture; add to the flour mixture.

Add the yeast mixture to the milk and flour mixture; beat well and refrigerate overnight. (Dough is very sticky)

Make filling

• ½ Cup ground nuts


• ½ Cup chopped dates


• 3 Tablespoons sugar


• 1 Teaspoon cinnamon


• ¼ Cup milk


• 3 egg whites


• 1 Cup sugar

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Combine dates, nuts, cinnamon, 3 Tablespoons sugar and milk over heat stirring to a paste; cool.

Beat egg whites until stiff gradually beating in 1 cup sugar; fold in the cooled paste.

Roll out ½ of refrigerated dough into 20 inch square; spread ½ of filling over dough.

Roll dough up like a jelly roll and place into greased angel food cake pan.

Repeat same with remaining ½ dough and filling; place over other roll in pan.

Bake 65 minutes; sprinkle with sifted powdered sugar.

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