Applesauce Cake

Applesauce Cake — a cake recipe, 11 ingredients, about 60 min.

Serves 16 · 60 min · Cake

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
  • ½ cup (1 stick/125 g/4.4. oz) butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 1 cup (225 g) white sugar
  • 1½ cups (125 g) raisins
  • 1¾ cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ cup (125 g) ground almonds
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 1 cup (275 g) unsweetened applesauce
Make it lactose-friendly
  • ½ cup (1 stick/125 g/4.4. oz) butter, plus extra for greasing → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 C. 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.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0