Applesauce Nut Crumb Cake

Submitted by Barry44

"This is easy to prepare and is good for all of you on weight watchers. Each serving is 4 points. The original recipe called for pecans but I used walnuts. You can substitute your favorite."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1⁄2 cup low-fat buttermilk
• 1⁄2 cup applesauce
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, melted
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg white
• cooking spray

• Topping

• 1⁄3 cup chopped nuts, of your choice
• 1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons butter or 2 teaspoons margarine, melted
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, combine first six ingredients (flour through nutmeg).
3. In a separate bowl, mix buttermilk, applesauce, 1 Tbsp butter, egg and egg white.
4. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir in the wet mixture until moist.
5. Spray a 9" round cake pan with cooking sptay.
6. and spoon in the batter.
7. In a small bowl combine chopped nuts and remaining ingredients.
8. Stir with a fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
9. Sprinkle evenly over top of the cake.
10. Bake at 350F for 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Reviews

[jrivito]

This is my husband's newest favorite cake (though quite honestly he has many favorites from the food.com site....) It is very easy to throw together quickly. The crumb topping is delicious and the cake is moist and keeps well at room temperature - if it lasts that long in your home. A great way to use up applesauce.<br/><br/>Will be making this often over the winter.

 

[LIer4064]

This is a great recipe! It mixes up easily and quickly. It bakes up beautifully. And most important of all, tastes great. I love that it has all the flavor of a regular cake with so much less fat.

 

[Darkhunter]

Barry, made this for Christmas for my out-of-state sister so had to wait until I spoke to her after the holidays. On her say so, I gave it 5 stars. Will now have to fix this again, for us!

 

[noreenruth]

this was a great recipe..I am adopting it....

 

[Chef Dudo]

Very nice cake. Replaced the nutmeg with cinnamon as I don't care too much for nutmeg. Otherwise I made it as stated. Also used walnuts. Pleased to find a tasty lightened up cake. Just a pity that it tend to dry out so soon. But-I guess that is the price to pay when making a lighter cake. Thanks for sharing.