Old Virginia Applesauce Cake Recipes

MY MOM'S APPLE SAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan or 2 - 8 inch round pans.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in water and egg. Add flour mixture alternately with applesauce and mix thoroughly. Fold in nuts and raisins.
• Pour into pan and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool and frost with cream cheese frosting.
• To make frosting: In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add milk and vanilla and mix in. Add confectioners sugar and orange or lemon juice. Beat until fluffy, then frost cake.

MOTHER'S APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.
• Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs. Add flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in the raisins, dates, and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool on wire rack.
• To make icing, melt 1/2 cup butter or margarine in a small saucepan over low heat; stir in 1 cup brown sugar. Boil for 2 minutes. Stir in milk, and continue to stir until the mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat, and cool for 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and confectioners' sugar. Frost cooled cake.

OLD-FASHIONED APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350*...Spray cake pan with cooking oil and flour pan lightly...Oblong cake pan
• 2. Sift flour with baking soda and baking powder, salt and spices then set aside...Mix milk, vanilla, and applesauce...set aside...Cream butter till light, add sugar gradually, cream till fluffy....add eggs beaten, beat mixture for 1 minute...
• 3. Add dry ingredients alternating with applesauce mixture, begin with dry and end with dry, adding 1/3 of the total at a time...Beat till smooth...Mix in nuts... Spoon into cake pan, bake for 35 minutes or till springy...serve warm or cooled...with or without sauce or frosting...

OLD FASHIONED APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs; add applesauce and mix well.
• Stir dry ingredients into mixture, alternating with water.
• Blend fruit and nuts into batter.
• Pour into greased and floured 9"x13" pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes.
• Cool in pan and frost.
• Make frosting: Combine brown sugar, 1/4 cup milk and 3 tablespoons butter in top of double boiler.
• Cook rapidly for about 3 minutes, stirring.
• Cool to luke warm and add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Beat in confectioner's sugar to right consistency.

GRANDMA'S APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Place raisins and hot water in a small bowl; set aside. , In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and spices; add to creamed mixture alternately with applesauce and water. Drain raisins; fold into batter with the walnuts. , Transfer to a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 300° for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Place pan on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Serve warm or cold.

OLD FASHIONED APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray 8x8 metal pan with cooking spray.
• In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger.
• Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat margarine and molasses with an electric mixer on high for about 1 minute.
• Add egg substitute and vanilla and blend on high speed for about 30 seconds.
• Mixture will be very liquid.
• add Splenda and beat on medium until smooth, about 1 1/2 minutes.
• Add flour mixture and applesauce and beat on low until mixed, about 45 seconds.
• Spread batter into prepared pan and Bake 30 minutes.

CAKE MIX APPLESAUCE CAKE - APPLESAUCE COFFEE CAKE WITH YELLOW CAKE MIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; spray a 13 x 9 inch baking dish nonstick cooking spray.
• In a small bowl, mix cinnamon and sugar; set aside.
• In a large bowl, blend cake mix, eggs and applesauce until moist. Beat on high for 2 minutes.
• Pour half the batter into the prepared baking dish; sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar; cover with remaining batter.
• Take a knife and swirl through the layers.
• Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan. If desired, sprinkle top of cake with powdered sugar.

FIRST PRIZE APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Grandma baked this cake often. Early one morning she had just finished making the frosting, and the cake was cooling, when grandpa came into the kitchen and said Bessie, grandma's milk cow, came in without her calf and he had to go look for the calf. He handed grandma the milk pail and asked her to milk the cow. She gave me the egg basket and we walked to the barn. Grandma sent me up the ladder into the hay loft to gather the eggs of the chickens that had 'flown the coop.' They would lay their eggs between the bales of hay, and as she settled on her one legged stool and began to milk Bessie, I reached in between the bales and wrapped my hand around what I thought was an egg and when I pulled my hand out it was wrapped around a black snake. I screamed and threw the snake as I fell backwards into the haystack below. The snake landed on Bessie. She bellowed and kicked and grandma fell off her stool with the milk pale in hand and the milk poured all over her. I scrambled out of that pile of hay, and screaming and crying, I ran to my grandmother and got under her dress. The snake slithered away, Bessie ran out the barn door, and Grandma gathered herself together and carried me inside the house and sat me on the table. She grabbed a hand towel, wiped her face and mine and after handing me a spoon of frosting, she began frosting the cake and the whole while singing, "Bringing in the Sheaves." Still crying I began singing along with grandma as I licked the spoon and sobbed. Soon the tears diminished and with grandma's hugs life was good once again.
• 2. Sift the first 7 ingredients together In a medium bowl. Combine the oil and sugar in a large mixing bowl, and with an electric mixer, beat until well blended. Add the hot applesauce and blend thoroughly. Add the dry ingredients and blend well. Stir in the walnuts and raisins. Grease and flour two 9 inch cake pans, pour in the batter and bake in hot oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees and continue baking for about 15 minutes longer. Remove the cakes from the oven and cool on a cake rack for 5 minutes. Remove the cakes from the pan and complete cooling on the racks. After the cake is completely cool fill and frost with Caramel Frosting.
• 3. CARAMEL FROSTING Melt the butter in a sauce pan over low heat and stir in the brown sugar and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat; while stirring constantly boil hard for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the milk. Return the pan to the heat and return to a full boil. Remove from the heat and cool to lukewarm. Stir in the confectioner sugar and beat until smooth. If frosting is too thin, add a little more confectioner sugar. If the frosting is too thick add a little more milk. Frost the top of the bottom layer. Add the top layer and frost the top and sides.