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Applesauce Cake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 16 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Sauce, Baked

Tags: easy, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes using allspice, recipes using almond, recipes using apple, recipes using applesauce, recipes using baking soda, recipes using butter, recipes using clove, recipes using ground cinnamon, recipes using white sugar

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AApplesauce_Cake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AApplesauce%20Cake&oldid=4516865

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (1 stick/125 g/4.4. oz) butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 1 cup (225 g/7.9 oz) white sugar
  • 1½ cups (125 g/4.4 oz) raisins
  • 1¾ cups (250 g/8.8 oz) all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ cup (125 g/4.4 oz) ground almonds
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 1 cup (275 g/9.7 oz) unsweetened applesauce

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C (356 °F). Grease and line two round cake pans.
  2. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
  3. Mix in the raisins, flour, spices, almonds and applesauce.
  4. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and stir into the batter.
  5. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans.
  6. Bake for 45 minutes until golden.
  7. Transfer the cakes to a wire rack and leave them to cool.