Milky Way Cake

• 8 Milky Way candy bars (2.15 oz. each)
• 1 c. butter or margarine
• 2 c. sugar
• 4 large eggs, separated
• 1 1/4 c. buttermilk
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 2 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 c. pecans, chopped
• 6 sq. (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 325u0b0.
2. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Melt candy bars and butter, stirring frequently, in a large, heavy pan over low heat.
3. Remove from heat and stir in sugar.
4. Combine egg yolks, buttermilk and baking soda in a small bowl until blended.
5. Combine flour and salt.
6. Add to candy mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
7. Stir in pecans.
8. In a clean bowl, beat egg whites until stiff.
9. Fold into batter.
10. Pour into prepared pan.
11. Bake 1 1/4 hours or until cake is set and pulls away from sides of pan. Unmold and cool completely.
12. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Spread over cooled cake.
13. Yields 16 servings.

milky, butter, sugar, eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, flour, salt, pecans, semisweet chocolate

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=879406 (may not work)