Recipe For Applesauce Cake With Caramel Icing

Applesauce Cake With Caramel Icing

Ingredients

.....4 cups sifted flour
.....4 teaspoons baking soda
.....1 1/4 teaspoons salt
.....2 teaspoons cinnamon
.....1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
.....2 tablespoons cocoa
.....1 cup oil
.....2 cups sugar
.....3 cups unsweetened applesauce, heated
.....1/2 cup raisins
.....1/2 cup chopped walnuts
.....Caramel Icing (recipe below)

Preparation

Preheat oven as required (see below). Grease and flour two 9 inch square pans, one 9 x 13 inch baking pan, or one 9 inch bundt or tube pan.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and cocoa. In a small bowl, stir the oil and sugar together thoroughly. Add this to the flour mixture and blend. Stir in the hot applesauce. Mix in the raisins and walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan(s) and bake: 375 degrees for two 9 inch pans for 30 minutes or until tested done, 350 degrees for one 9 x 13 pan for 35 minutes or until tested done, 325 degrees for one 9 inch bundt or tube pan for 55 minutes or until tested done.

Cool the cake in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Ice when thoroughly cooled.

Yield: 20 servings

Caramel Icing

1 1/2 cups butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 cups powdered sugar

Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the brown sugar. Bring to a boil and stir constantly while boiling for 2 minutes. Add the milk, beat well, and allow to return to a full boil. Remove from heat and cool to lukewarm. Stir in the powdered sugar and beat with a wire whip until smooth.

This is a generous amount of icing that can be used as a filling between layers as well as for icing the top and sides. For the bundt or tube cake, a swirl of icing just on the top, garnished with walnut halves, makes an attractively finished cake.

Yield: 3 cups