Do you ever have left over candy that you just don't know what to with? I am meaning anything from chocolates to red hots to fruit flavored gummy candy? Well sometimes if I don't have enough chocolate chips, ill use some chopped up chocolate bar for chocolate chip cookies, I use left over red hots for my Red Hot Apple Pie, and for this Ooey Gooey Orange Bread, I just so happened to have some orange slices left over from a gift that I received from Christmas. This is an extremely dense bread, so it's perfect for the Holidays or even as a cute little gift. Some of you readers may be skeptical about the orange slice candy making it fruit cake-ish, but trust me on this one, it's not!! It's great served with a scoop of icing or with a cup of coffee! In a large bowl, or mixer, mix the butter, sugar, and eggs. Alternate the milk with the dry ingredients. Mix it well. The mix will be a little thicker! Add in the nuts and raisins, and give it a quick spin to incorporate it all. Then throw in your sliced orange slice candy. So these little boogers were tricky to cut. I tried my food processor, my chopper, and nothing would work. So the only real way to get these chopped up nicely is a little elbow grease and a sharp knife! Give that a quick mix! This bread can be made into many shapes and forms! This time I chose to make 3 loaves of it, but you can use a Bundt pan as well. All I did was spray cooking spray in mine, but with the Bundt pan, I would grease and flour it. I baked mine for about 1 hour and 35 minutes. The Glazed it as soon as it came out of the oven. Ingredients:
Bread: 2 c. sugar 4 eggs 1 c. melted butter 1/2 c. buttermilk 1 tsp baking soda 3 1/2 c. sifted flour 1 lb. chopped Orange Slice Candy 2 c. chopped pecans 1 8oz. package of raisins Glaze: 1 c. orange juice 2 tsp. orange zest 4 c. powdered sugar ( more if you want it thicker) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 300* 2. Mix butter, sugar, and eggs 3. Add baking soda 4. Add in the buttermilk and alternate with flour mixture 5. Add Candy, Raisins, and Pecans 6. Pour in to a Bundt pan ( greased and floured) or 3 loaf pans 7. Bake for 1:30-2hrs 8. While the Cake is hot, pour the glaze on top, let it sit in the pan until it is cooled. It will soak up all of the glaze! Enjoy!
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