Cranberry Bundt Cake

 Recipe

Cranberry Bundt Cake 

INGREDIENTS

1   cup    sugar

3/4  cup    butter

softened 

2       eggs

2   cups    all-purpose flour

1/4  teaspoon    salt

1   teaspoon    baking powder

1   teaspoon    baking soda

1   cup    buttermilk

1   tablespoon    orange extract

1   cup    fresh cranberries

whole 

1   cup    dates

chopped 

1   cup    nuts

chopped  (walnuts or pecans

or both) 

 DIRECTION

Preheat oven to 350°F   

Coat a 10 cup bundt pan with non-stick cooking spray.

Cream sugar and butter until smooth and fluffy.  Beat in eggs.

Sift dry ingredients together into a bowl.

Add dry ingredients

alternately with buttermilk

to egg mixture.  Beat until smooth.

Stir in remaining ingredients.

Spoon batter into bundt pan.  Bake for 1 hour

or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Let stand in pan 15 minutes and then turn cake out onto plate.

Glaze if desired.