{"id":2446,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:58","slug":"orange-date-nut-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/orange-date-nut-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Date Nut Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 C. butter or margarine, softened<br \/>\n2 C. white sugar<br \/>\n6 eggs<br \/>\n3 1\/3 C. self-rising flour<br \/>\n1 C. milk<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. vanilla extract<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. lemon flavoring<br \/>\n2 C. pitted dates, chopped<br \/>\n2 C. chopped pecans<br \/>\n2 C. orange juice<br \/>\n3 1\/2 C. confectioners sugar<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 325. Grease 10-inch tube pan and line bottom with parchment paper.  Grease paper. Dredge dates and nuts in flour and set aside. In large bowl, cream butter  and sugar until light fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well. Add flour, alternating with  the milk and mix well. Add vanilla and lemon flavorings. Fold in nuts plus dates. Pour  batter into 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted into center  comes out clean. Remove from oven and pour orange syrup over cake immediately. Cool  in pan 30 minutes then remove from pan. Let stand upside-down overnight, turn over and  serve.  Orange syrup:  In medium bowl, combine orange juice and confectioners sugar. Mix  until smooth.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas, (Psalms 78:27)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/orange-date-nut-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}