Orange Slice Fruit Cake

This is not like a regular fruitcake.  It has orange slices in it and has a glaze of frozen orange juice concentrate mixed with confectioners sugar and is my youngest son's favorite cake.

Mix 3 c. flour and 1/2 tsp salt (save 1/2 c. of mixture)

Coat the following with the 1/2 c.flour/salt mixture:
1 lb orange slices cut into pieces a little bigger than a pea
8 oz. diced dates
2 c. chopped pecans

Mix 1/2 c. buttermilk and 1 tsp. baking soda

Cream 2 c. sugar and 1 c. unsalted butter.  Add 4 eggs beaten and one at a time.  Add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture.  Add the orange slice mixture to the batter and pour into a floured angel food cake pan.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hr. 45 minutes.

Just before cake is done, mix 1 c. frozen orange juice concentrate with 2 c. confectioners sugar.  As soon as cake comes out of the oven, pour the orange juice mixture over the cake while still in the pan.  Once the juice mixture has marinated into the cake, remove the cake from the pan.  Refrigerate when cooled.

You can also make this in mini loaf pans to give as gifts or in a bundt cake pan (but it is a little hard to remove from the pan).  The mini loaf pans require only 1 hr. 10 minutes of baking time.