Bourbon Date Nut Cake

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup salted butter or 1 cup unsalted butter
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 6 medium eggs
• 4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 cup bourbon
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 lb finely chopped pecans
• 7 1/4 ounces pitted dates, chopped
• 3 tablespoons coconut

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• 2 butter and flour an angel food pan or bundt pan.
• 3 cream butter and sugar.
• 4 drop in eggs, one at a time, and stir after each addition.
• 5 sift flour, baking powder and nutmeg together, reserving 1/4 cup flour to dredge the nuts.
• 6 add the flour mixture, bourbon, almond and vanilla alternately.
• 7 flour the nuts, dates and coconut; fold into cake batter.
• 8 pour this mixture into the cake pan.
• 9 cover the cake with foil for the first few hours of the baking period, removing the foil at your discretion depending on how brown you want it to become.
• 10 place a pan of water in the oven to prevent cracking.
• 11 bake the cake for six hours-- yes! that really is 250 degrees for 6 hours!
• 12 note: you might want to add more bourbon if 1 cup is not enough as some people really like it soaked.