Grammie Beas Mincemeat Applesauce Cake Recipes

MINCEMEAT APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease a 10-inch bundt pan.
• In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl with electric mixer, beat oil and brown sugar until blended.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add half the dry ingredients and mix until combined.
• Stir in apple, mincemeat, pecans, and vanilla.
• Add remaining dry ingredients; beat until well combined.
• Spread batter in prepared pan and bake 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan 15 minutes. Turn cake out onto wire rack and cool completely.
• For frosting:.
• Combine all ingredients until mixture is creamy. Frost cooled cake.
• Note: One year when I made this cake, I had a jar of hard sauce - I simply softened it and added it to the frosting as well for an extra kick (the hard sauce was flavored with rum and brandy).

GRAMMIE BEA'S CHOPPED APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease and flour a loaf pan, or 9x9" cake pan, or makes 18 cup cakes.
• Cut apples, and peel and chop into small pieces.
• Add sugar, and mix and let set for 10 minutes while mixing dry ingredients.
• Sift flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg together well.
• Add oil mixed with beaten egg, to apples.
• Mix in dry ingredients, and pour into pan.
• Bake at 350° for 30-45 minutes. Test at 30 minutes with a tooth pick in center of cake -- When it comes out clean, cake is done. DO NOT overbake.

HOLIDAY MINCEMEAT CAKE

Steps:

• Stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together; set aside.
• Cream the butter, orange rind and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light.
• Beat in the sugar.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Blend in the mincemeat.
• Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.
• Stir in the nuts.
• Turn the batter into either a greased 12-cup Bundt or tube pan or a greased 9" x 13" cake pan.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• If using a Bundt pan, bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until done.
• If using a cake pan, bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
• In either case, cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove from the pan and cool completely.
• Dust with icing sugar before serving.

MOM FLORENCE'S MINCEMEAT APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugar.
• In another bowl, sift together dry ingredients.
• Combine dry ingredients and sugar mixture.
• Add eggs.
• Add mincemeat, raisins, applesauce and nuts.
• Bake at 325° for 45 to 60 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.

GRAMMIE BEA'S MINCEMEAT APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Break mince meat into pieces, and put in a small sauce pan.
• Add the water.
• Place over med. heat, and stir lumps, until broken.
• Boil briskly for 3 mins., until almost dry, and let cool.
• Sift flour, salt, and soda.
• Cream Crisco, and add sugar gradually, beating until fluffy.
• Beat in egg.
• Stir in mince meat.
• Add dry ingredients with cooled apple.
• sauce.
• Stir in nuts.
• Bake in a greased and floured 9x13" pan, in a 350 oven for 30-40 mins., checking every 5 minutes after 30 mins., until a toothpick comes.
• out clean when inserted into the center of the cake.