Grandmas Spicy Applesauce Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.
• Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs. Add flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in the raisins, dates, and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool on wire rack.
• To make icing, melt 1/2 cup butter or margarine in a small saucepan over low heat; stir in 1 cup brown sugar. Boil for 2 minutes. Stir in milk, and continue to stir until the mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat, and cool for 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and confectioners' sugar. Frost cooled cake.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the applesauce, sugar, shortening and eggs. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves; gradually beat into applesauce mixture until blended. Stir in the raisins, chocolate chips and walnuts. , Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Place raisins and hot water in a small bowl; set aside. , In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and spices; add to creamed mixture alternately with applesauce and water. Drain raisins; fold into batter with the walnuts. , Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 300° for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Serve warm or cold.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 13x9-inch pan.
• Combine cake mix, eggs, applesauce and oil in large bowl. Beat at medium speed with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Stir in nuts. Pour into bake pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert onto cooling rack. Turn right-side up. Cool completely.
• For frosting, combine frosting and cinnamon; stir until blended. Spread over cooled cake.

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and vanilla.
• Dust raisins in cocoa and set aside.
• Mix in dry ingredients and applesauce.
• Stir in raisins and nuts.
• Grease and dust a 9" tube pan or bundt pan with cocoa.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 70-80 minutes, until cake tests done with a toothpick.
• Cool slightly before removing from pan.
• Frost with Glossy Chocolate Icing #90756.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Prepare a tube pan.
• Put raisins in a 1 quart pan and cover with water.
• Cook until almost dry.
• Meanwhile, combine dry ingredients.
• When raisins are done mix into dry ingredients with applesauce and melted butter.
• Bake in prepared tube pan for 1 1/2 hours.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir in 1 tsp. of baking soda to applesauce and let it fizz up a bit. (1 minute)
• Then add in the eggs, margarine and brown sugar. Blend together.
• Add the flour, baking powder, and spices to the mix and blend in.
• (The recipe says that if it seems a little dry, add 1/2 cup of milk. I have never needed to do this, but if it looks thicker than the usual texture of a cake batter, you can add a little, or perhaps a little more applesauce.)
• put into a greased 8x8 cake pan and bake at 350 degrees - for about 45 minutes, or until a fork comes out clean when testing the center of the cake.
• This cake is lovely with a simple lemon icing drizzled on it - some icing sugar, with a bit of lemon juice mixed to give it the consistency you want,....