Homemade Applesauce Cake
What goes great with homemade applesauce? Homemade applesauce cake. It a great way to make a fresh, healthy-ish dessert for your family. My 3-year-old LOVES apples and is such a fan of this cake, it is one of his favorites and mine!
To begin this recipe, you must first prepare the homemade applesauce.
Thinking about this brought to mind a really cute Mother’s Day gift from my then 4-year-old. A recipe book with interpretations of different recipes from the minds of other pre-schoolers.
The recipe is for “Cooked Apples”, the 4-year-old, whom I’ll call Lincoln says that to make the cooked apples you must…
“Get apples from the store. Then you cook them in a pot. Add something to make it sweet. Cook about an hour and then you can eat it.”
Lincoln’s recipe is actually a pretty good outline. However, for the full recipe, click here for my Homemade Applesauce Recipe.
Once the applesauce is made, begin making the cake flour. For the full How to Make Cake Flour recipe, click here.
Homemade Applesauce Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Cake Flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp apple pie spice
- 1/2 cup shortening (can substitute butter)
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 1/2 homemade unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg (approximately 1/3 cup)
Directions
- Prepare two 9- inch pans for baking.
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ground cloves, allspice and apple pie spice. If you don’t have apple pie spice, you can omit it from this recipe by doubling the allspice to 1/2 tsp.
- Add softened shortening and buttermilk and vanilla to flour mixture and combine.
- Add the egg and applesauce and mix well to combine. Making sure not to overmix.
- Lightly flour raisins and walnuts and gently fold into cake batter.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until done.
