Applesauce Spice Cake With Brown Sugar Icing
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
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Cake
- 177.44 ml butter, softened
- 354.88 ml brown sugar, packed
- 3 eggs
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 709.77 ml all-purpose flour
- 11.09 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml salt
- 3.69 ml baking soda
- 3.69 ml ground cinnamon
- 2.46 ml ground ginger
- 1.23 ml ground allspice
- 1.23 ml ground nutmeg
- 354.88 ml unsweetened applesauce
- 78.78 ml buttermilk
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Icing
- 78.78 ml butter
- 157.80 ml brown sugar, packed
- 29.58 ml corn syrup
- 29.58 ml milk
- 2.46 ml vanilla
- 354.88 ml icing sugar, sifted
directions
- For the cake, grease a 9" x 13" cake pan; line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter with the brown sugar until fluffy; beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Beat in the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and nutmeg.
- Stir into the butter mixture alternately with the applesauce and buttermilk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet.
- Spread in the prepared pan.
- Bake in the centre of a 350 degree F oven until the cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
- Let cool in the pan on a rack.
- For the icing, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the brown sugar and corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- Boil just until blended, about 1 minute.
- Remove from the heat.
- Using a wooden spoon, stir the milk and vanilla into the butter mixture.
- Again using a wooden spoon, beat in the icing sugar until smooth and spreadable; let cool for 1 minute.
- Spread over the top of the cake just to the edge, letting the icing drizzle over slightly.
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Reviews
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Made this for my family recently, and it was a huge hit! I made a few changes: used half the sugar (no one missed it), used half whole wheat flour (nobody noticed), added 1/2 t cloves with the other spices. Instead of icing, I just sprinkled cinnamon sugar across the top before baking. Moist, flavorful, and not too sweet.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Irmgard
Canada
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