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Applesauce Cake

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This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Recipes Tried and True.

Total 01:00
Yield 16

Ingredients

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

Instructions

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

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Applesauce_Cake