{"id":2459,"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-slice-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/orange-slice-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Slice Fruit Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>3 1\/2 C. flour<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1 pound candy orange slices, chopped<br \/>\n1 pound pitted dates, chopped<br \/>\n2 C. walnuts or pecans, chopped<br \/>\n3 1\/4 ounce can or 1 C. coconut (flaked)<br \/>\n1 C. butter<br \/>\n2 C. sugar<br \/>\n4 eggs<br \/>\n1 tsp. soda<br \/>\n1\/2 C. buttermilk<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mix together flour and salt. Combine candy orange slices, pitted dates, walnuts or pecans  and coconut. Add 1\/2 of the flour mixture and mix well. Cream 1 C. butter and 2 C. of  sugar. Add 4 eggs, one at a time. Combine 1 tsp. soda and 1\/2 C. of buttermilk.  Add milk and flour mixture alternately and blend after each addition. Add candy mixture  and mix well. Bake at 300 degrees for one hour and 45 minutes in a large angel food cake  pan that has been well greased. It may take longer to bake. Test with a toothpick. As soon  as cake is removed from oven, pour the following mixture over the top. Combine 1 C.  orange juice and 2 C. powdered sugar. Cool. Store in refrigerator overnight before  removing from pan. This is a large cake. It is not difficult to make. Once you have the  orange slices cut up you have it under control!<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-slice-fruit-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-2459","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\/2459","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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}