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Dessert

Applesauce Cake

Serves 16 · 60 minutes

This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Recipes Tried and True.

Suits: Vegetarian, Pescatarian. Allergens named in the ingredients: Gluten, Milk, Tree nuts. Flags come from what shops, restaurants and cooks list and from the ingredient names. Always check the label. This is not medical advice.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup (1 stick/125 g/4.4. oz) butter, plus extra for greasing
  • 1 cup () white sugar
  • 1½ cups () raisins
  • 1¾ cups () all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ½ cup () ground almonds
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
  • 1 cup () unsweetened applesauce

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to . Grease and line two round cake pans.
  2. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
  3. Mix in the raisins, flour, spices, almonds and applesauce.
  4. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and stir into the batter.
  5. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans.
  6. Bake for 45 minutes until golden.
  7. Transfer the cakes to a wire rack and leave them to cool.