Preheat oven to 325, grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan
Cake- whisk together eggs, sugar, canola oil, and orange
juice in a large bowl.
In separate bowl sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon,
and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the egg mixture making
sure not to over mix, stir in the apples, coconut, raisins,
pecans and vanilla.
Pour batter in pan and bake 1 hour 20 minutes or until cake
is firm. Cool cake pan on rack
Sauce- Heat butter, buttermilk, sugar, and baking soda in
medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the mixture to a
full boil. Stirring occasionally and then remove from heat and
cool 5 minutes.
Slowly and carefully pour the warm sauce over the cake in
the pan, allow cake to stand and absorb sauce at least 1
hour before inverting and removing from pan. Wrapped in
plastic this cake will keep 3 days
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