Mother's Applesauce Cake recipe

All Recipes Best Recipe Dessert Recipes Fruit Dessert Recipes Apple Dessert Recipes

Ingredients

3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
3 teaspoons baking soda
½ cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
3 cups unsweetened applesauce
½ cup raisins
½ cup dates, pitted and chopped
1 cup chopped walnuts
½ cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

Nutrition Info

525.7 calories
carbohydrate: 90.7 g
cholesterol: 54.1 mg
fat: 17.3 g
fiber: 2.5 g
protein: 5.4 g
saturatedFat: 8 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 415 mg
sugar: 66.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.

  2. Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Recipe Yield

1 tube cake

Recipe Note

This is a good old-fashioned applesauce cake. It will fill your house with the spicy fragrance of fall.

Do you like the recipe? Share this tasty recipe!

Alternatives to this recipe

See more alternatives
All Recipes Ideas

All Recipes - Recipe Tags: Recipe Mother's Applesauce Cake, simple recipe Mother's Applesauce Cake, recipe Mother's Applesauce Cake, recipe Mother's Applesauce Cake, Mother's Applesauce Cake recipe, recipes , recipes online , online recipes , recipe , cooking , cookbook , new recipes , best recipes , dessert recipes top recipes , cooking recipes , best lunch recipes , recipe book , meat recipes , healthy recipes , cooking , fast recipes cheap recipes jamie oliver recipes recipes jamie oliver recipe for lunch recipe for dinner recipe for breakfast recipe for valentine recipe for christmas recipe for easter recipe for new year recipe for students recipe for beginners recipe for weigh-loss recipe for snacks recipe for christmas eve recipe for birthday recipe on grill gordon ramsay gordon ramsay recipes gordon ramsay recipes gordon ramsays recipes simple recipes , best recipe mother's, , easy recipes , baking , tasty recipe best recipes