Stone Fence Applesauce Cake |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 1 Minutes |
Ready In: 21 Minutes Servings: 20 |
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The kind of cake you might expect to find at a farmers' market-old fashioned, deeply spiced, with wholesome ingredients. Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine |
1 cup granulated sugar |
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed |
2 eggs |
2 1/4 cups applesauce |
3/4 cup shredded raw carrot |
3 cups all-purpose flour |
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour |
3 teaspoons baking soda |
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon |
1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg |
1 1/2 teaspoons allspice |
1 1/2 cups walnuts, coarsely broken |
1 1/2 cups raisins |
Directions:
1. In large mixing bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy.
2. Gradually beat in sugars.
3. Beat in eggs.
4. Measure flours into a bowl.
5. Add soda and spices and mix well.
6. Add these dry ingredients alternately with applesauce and carrots.
7. Fold in walnuts and raisins.
8. Pour batter into a greased and floured tube or bundt cake pan.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes, or until tests done.
10. Cool in pan for 5 minutes and unmold.
11. Cool thoroughly before cutting into thin slices.
12. Serve sprinkled with confectioners sugar.
13. NOTE: Cake could also be baked in two loaf pans, if desired.
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