Apple sauce spice cake - sl 10/94
1 cake
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Butter or margarine; soften |
| 2 | cups | Sugar |
| 3 | eaches | Eggs |
| 3 | cups | All-purpose flour |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ¾ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | tablespoons | Cocoa |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ½ | cup | Butter or margarine |
| 1 | cup | Dark brown sugar; firmly packed |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground cloves |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground nutmeg |
| 16 | ounces | Can applesauce |
| 1½ | cup | Raisins |
| 1 | cup | Pecans; finely chopped |
| Panocha Frosting (Follows) | ||
| ½ | cup | Pecans; chopped |
| ½ | cup | + 1 Tbsp half-and-half |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 4 | cups | Powdered sugar; sifted |
Directions
PANOCHA FROSTING
Cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition.
Combine flour and next 7 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
Stir in raisins and 1 cup pecans.
Pour batter into 3 greased and floured 9" round cakepans. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire racks.
Spread Panocha Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake.
Sprinkle ½ cup pecans on top of cake.
PANOCHA FROSTING=============
Combine first 4 ingredients in a heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat and cool mixture to 160 degrees. Stir in powdered sugar. Yield: enough for one three-layered cake.
Recipe by Charlotte Watkins in November, 1989"Southern Living".
Typos by Jeff Pruett.
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 11-19-95