Old-Fashioned Chocolate Applesauce Cake

Submitted by Andtototoo

"My mother often made this cake in the 1960's when I was growing up."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup Crisco shortening
• 1 beaten egg
• 1 cup applesauce
• 1 cup sour milk
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 3 tablespoons dry cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts
• 1⁄2 cup golden raisin

directions

1. Soak the raisins in hot water for 15 minutes, then drain.
2. Cream together the sugar and crisco. Add the beaten egg and the applesauce.
3. Sprinkle a small amound of flour over the nuts and raisins and blend.
4. Add the dry ingredients and the sour milk (To make sour milk put 1 Table. vinegar into 1 cup milk and let stand for a few minutes) to the applesauce mixture, alternating as you mix and add.
5. Stir in the vanilla, nuts and raisins.
6. Bake in a one-layer cake pan (9" x 13") at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until the cake tests done.
7. Let the cake cool and then spread with your favorite frosting (or combine 2 cups. powdered sugar, 3 Tablespoons butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 3 Tablespoons cream or milk and a pinch of salt).