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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; line 2 8x4 loaf pans with parchment paper and set aside. | 2. In a mixing bowl, beat butter with sugar until mixture is fluffy. | 3. Next, beat in eggs, 1 at a time, then stir in orange rind. | 4. In a separate mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda and powder, and salt. | 5. Stir dry mixture into butter mixture alternately with buttermilk (dry, buttermilk, dry, buttermilk, finally dry). | 6. Into this batter, stir in dates, cranberries and almonds just until combined. | 7. Scrape batter into the two prepared loaf pans and bake in the centre of preheated oven until a tester comes out clean, about 75 minutes. | 8. Turn out onto cooling racks and cool completely. | 9. You could now wrap cakes in heavyduty foil and freeze for up to one month, if you wish. | 10. To make icing, beat butter with just 1/4 cup of the icing sugar, then beat in orange juice. | 11. Beat in remaining sugar until icing is smooth. | 12. Spread icing over tops of both cakes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1	cup	softened	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
white sugar	1 1/2	cups		1161.0	299.94	0.0	0.0
egg	3			214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
orange	1	tablespoon	grated rind	5.2875	1.3219	0.1058	0.0135
purpose flour	3	cups		-	-	-	-
baking soda	1 1/2	1/2		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
baking powder	1/2	teaspoon		1.219	0.6371	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
buttermilk	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
date	1 1/4	cups	chopped pitted	518.175	137.8676	4.5019	0.7166
cranberry	1	cup		50.6	13.167	0.506	0.14300000000000002
almond	1	cup	chopped	1927.12	0.0	0.0	218.0
butter	2	tablespoons	softened	171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
icing sugar	2	cups		-	-	-	-
orange juice	2	tablespoons		13.95	3.2239999999999998	0.217	0.062

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.