Grand Marnier Pecan Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 14
• 1 lb golden raisin
• 1 lb pecans (you can lightly toast them in the oven)
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 lb sweet butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 6 egg yolks (save whites)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved in
• 1 tablespoon warm water
• 1/4 cup grand marnier or 1/4 cup cointreau liqueur

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees farenheit.
• 2 mix raisins, pecans, flour and salt.
• 3 cream butter and sugar.
• 4 add egg yolks, dissolved baking soda and grand marnier.
• 5 beat the egg whites until stiff.
• 6 combine all three mixtures and fold in the six egg whites.
• 7 bake for one hour.
• 8 recipe makes either:.
• 9 one 10" tube pan.
• 10 two 9" kugelhopf or bundt pans.
• 11 two 9x5 loaf pans.
• 12 three 8x4 loaf pans.
• 13 cool and wrap in foil.
• 14 refrigerate for 10 days.
• 15 after a week you may wrap the cake in cheesecloth soaked in grand marnier and rewrap with foil.
• 16 you may repeat this soaked cheesecloth step as often as you like, as it will make the cake dense-- and a bit boozy.