My Moms Apple Sauce Cake Recipes

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 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:

• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs and mix well,
• Sift together flour, cinnamon, cloves and baking soda, and add in to butter/sugar mixture. (It will be thick, like cookie dough.)
• Mix in raisins and nuts, and hot applesauce (I heat in small saucepan on stove, but microwave should work, also). Hot applesauce will thin down the dough into a batter.
• Pour into a 9" x13" baking pan (sprayed with Baker's Joy, or greased and floured)
• Bake at 350* for 45 to 50 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean. Start checking at 40 minutes. Cake is best if slightly underdone.
• Serve plain, dusted with powdered sugar, or frost with cream cheese icing. I grew up eating it plain.

Steps:

• Mix together first 3 ingredients. Set aside.
• Beat together the sugar, oil and eggs until smooth.
• Mix together the dry ingredients in another bowl, and add to egg mixture, alternating with the orange juice and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
• In a greased tube or bundt pan, pour a little less than half the batter. Top with the apples, and cover with the rest of the batter.
• Bake at 350F for 75 minutes.

Steps:

• Coat raisins and nuts with small amount of flour, this keeps them from going to the bottom of the cake. Mix all ingredients very well.
• Pour in bundt or angel food cake pan (greased & floured).
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours.