Applesauce Cake

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by Marilyn Dishes

I had some leftover applesauce from when I made latkes…. & I love Applesauce Cake…so… I baked one!

Like Gingerbread Cake for me, Applesauce cake is so comforting . dense & moist, this cake is gently spiced with cinnamon & nutmeg… a perfect cake for cooler days with a cup of tea…or coffee..

I looked around for a recipe & there are many. I used a recipe from Martha Stewart.com from October 2005… Applesauce Cake

I adapted the recipe slightly, replacing the butter with oil, making this cake parve ( non-dairy) & left out the cardaman since I int have any! A full large drawer of spices but not any cardamon! So I used more cinnamon & nutmeg

The cake was simple to make with everyday ingredients..you just really have to go get 2 cups of applesauce…& the recipe calls for brown sugar …quite a lot of it but the cake is not over-sweet

I think you should make this cake! It is really good :)) It makes a big tube pan so if you can’t eat all of that in a few days, which I am going to try not to do,,, I am going to cut in half, freeze half to take out another time & keep half out to enjoy now!

Here is the recipe, as adapted from the original recipe

Ingredients

3 cups of regular flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 SCANT cup of oil *** to replace the 1 cup of butter with oil it is 7/8 cup of oil…so I weighed it to be 7 oz but if you do not have a scale, just use a mostly full cup of oil…though I doubt that 1 whole cup will make a difference in this cake…it would in other cakes I think

2 cups brown sugar *** it sounds like a lot of sugar, but go for it!

1/4 cup honey

2 large eggs

2 cups unsweetened applesauce

*** optional… icing sugar to sprinkle on the cake after it is cool

Method

Preheat your oven to 350f

Grease a tube pan, you can also make this cake in a bundt pan if you would like…I sprayed a tube pan with cooking spray

  1. Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg together & set aside
  2. In the bowl of your mixer mix the oil & brown sugar until combined, scraped the sides & bottom of the bowl
  3. Add the honey & mix it in
  4. Now, mix in the eggs
  5. With the mixer on slow, add the flour gradually & mix just until combined
  6. Add the applesauce & mix the batter until it is smooth, scrape the sides & bottom of the bowl, making sure that all of the batter is well mixed
  7. Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan
  8. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 horror until the cake test done…using a cake tester…
  9. Remove the cooked cake from the oven to a cooling rack & let it cool in the pan for at least 10 minutes on a cooling rack
  10. Turn the cake out onto a cooling & cool completely before putting the icing sugar on the cake…otherwise the icing sugar will just melt!

Enjoy!!!

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Marilyn Dishes

Many people ask me "how did you do that?" "will you show me how?' So I decided to make a blog about what I cook and bake. I am in no way a professional cook, but I love to feed people and try new things as well as making the "old foods" My friends are wonderful cooks, each with their own 'specialty' and i will be having guest cooks here, showcasing their favourite things to cook as well!! I hope you enjoy this blog and maybe decide to make some of these foods yourself! I am always available to answer any questions you might have about anything you see here. Some of my recipes are unique to me but most are not. They are all recipes I have found in a variety of ways, some are old family recipes that date back decades and some are new ones!

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