Applesauce Cake Recipe

An amazingly delicious, old fashioned Applesauce Cake recipe! It’s a super soft and moist cake, similar to carrot cake but rather with a light apple flavor and plenty of autumn spices!

Who can resist a simple, flavorful, homestyle cake just like Grandma would have made? This cake is just that!

It’s brimming with applesauce, generously speckled with warm spices throughout, there’s just enough sweetness, and it’s all balanced with a rich cream cheese frosting to polish it off.

It’s an autumn cake worthy of celebrations, bringing to the holiday dinner parties, nice for gifting, or just a great applesauce snack cake to have in the fridge to enjoy after dinner throughout the week.

You’ll find it’s so good in fact that it really doesn’t even need a frosting if you aren’t feeling up to it. That’s right, a cake so good you can even skip the frosting!

Applesauce Cake

An old fashioned, super soft, incredibly moist cake that’s brimming with spices and has a tasty light apple flavor. It’s much like carrot cake and absolutely delicious!

Prep: 30min

Total: 150min

Serving Size: 1 serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 450 kcal, Carbohydrate 62 g, Protein 4 g, Fat 22 g, Saturated Fat 8 g, Trans Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 54 mg, Sodium 292 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 44 g, unSaturated Fat 12 g, servingSize 1 serving

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups (318 g) all-purpose flour ((scoop and level to measure))
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground allspice
• 3/4 cup (150 g) granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup (100 g) brown sugar ((break up any clumps with fingertips))
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (490 g) unsweetened applesauce
• 3/4 cup (175 ml) vegetable oil (or canola oil)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 8 oz. cream cheese, (nearly at room temperature)
• 6 Tbsp (85 g) butter, (soft)
• 3 cups (360 g) powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instruction:

1. To make the applesauce cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 13 by 9-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
2. In a large mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice for 30 seconds. Make a well in the center and set aside.
3. To a separate large mixing bowl add granulated sugar, brown sugar, and eggs. Using an electric hand mixer beat on medium speed until fairly pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
4. Add applesauce, vegetable oil and 1 tsp vanilla extract to sugar mixture and blend with hand mixer until combined.
5. Pour applesauce mixture into well in flour mixture then gently fold and stir mixture just until there’s no longer streaks or pockets of flour. Mixture will be lumpy and that’s okay.
6. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Wiggle pan to level batter out even.
7. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick inserted into center comes out free of batter (a moist crumb or two is fine), about 30 to 40 minutes.
8. Let cake cool on a wire rack (to speed up cooling you can cool in the fridge).
9. To make the cream cheese frosting: Add cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla to a large mixing bowl.
10. Using an electric hand mixer (with clean beater blades), blend mixture on low speed until combined. Then increase speed to high and whip for several minutes until light and fluffy.
11. If needed you can freeze the frosting in 3 minute increments, stirring between intervals, until it’s firmed up some.
12. Frost cake with cream cheese frosting then cut into slices.

Applesauce Spice Cake

Easy to make and perfectly spiced, this applesauce cake boasts browned butter frosting that makes it completely irresistable!

Prep: 40min

Total: 0min

Yield: 15 servings

Nutrition Facts: calories 410 calories, Fat 15 grams, Saturated Fat grams, Trans Fat grams, Cholesterol 55 milligrams, Sodium 310 milligrams, Carbohydrate 70 grams, Fiber 2 grams, Sugar grams, Protein 4 grams

Ingredients:

• Cake
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups applesauce
• 1/2 cup Land O Lakes® Butter softened
• 2 large Land O Lakes® Eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 3/4 cup golden raisins or raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• Frosting
• 1/3 cup Land O Lakes® Butter
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 to 3 tablespoons milk
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans

Instruction:

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13×9-inch baking pan; set aside.
2. Combine all cake ingredients except raisins and pecans in bowl. Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often, until ingredients are moistened. Beat at high speed, scraping bowl often, until smooth. Stir in raisins and 1/2 cup pecans.
3. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 35-40 minutes or until center is firm to the touch and edges begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely.
4. Melt 1/3 cup butter in 1-quart saucepan over medium heat. Continue cooking, stirring constantly and watching closely, 4-6 minutes or until butter just starts to turn golden. (Butter will get foamy and bubble.) Remove from heat. Cool completely.
5. Combine browned butter, powdered sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla in bowl. Beat at medium speed, gradually adding milk and scraping bowl often, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Frost cooled cake. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup pecans.

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