Apple Sauce and Walnut Cake
Apple sauce makes for a deliciously moist and fruity cake. I love walnuts and raisins, but if you prefer you could substitute some other kind of nut such as chopped almonds.
Ingredients
Serves: 24
- 2 1/2 cups (315g) plain flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarb soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 125g copha
- 1 cup (220g) white sugar
- 1/2 cup (125ml) water
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup chopped raisins
- 500g apple sauce
- 250g cream cheese
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 5 1/2 cups (800g) sifted icing sugar
- 1/3 cup orange juice
Directions
Preparation:30min ›
Cook:50min ›
Ready in:1hour20min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and grease and flour a 20x30cm pan.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, bicarb soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream copha and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in water and egg. Add flour mixture alternately with apple sauce and mix thoroughly. Fold in nuts and raisins.
- Pour into pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool and ice with cream cheese icing.
- To make icing: In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add milk and vanilla and mix in. Add icing sugar and orange or lemon juice. Beat until fluffy.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Love the cake. I didn't make it with rasins or walnuts cause I didn't have any and instead of 1/2 cup shortening I used 1/2 cup vegetable oil. Didn't frost it at all. The cake turned out moist the way I like it and my husband said it was very good also. We have a few apple trees and I make homemade applesauce often and used that. I might add homemade apple butter with the applesauce sometime. - 12 Oct 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This recipe was a hit with my family. I served it to dinner guests and had to give out the recipe because they loved it so much. I changed a few things because I didn't have everything listed. I upped the cinn. to 1 tsp. and omitted the cloves, allspice, walnuts and raisins. I also added 2 eggs instead of one and used cinn. applesause because that's all I had on hand. I added about 4 fresh cubed macintosh apples and I didn't have the ingredients for the frosting so I coated the top with confectionary sugar. It was a big hit!!! I am making another one today and I am planning on using the frosting this time. Thanks for the great recipe!! - 26 Oct 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
My boyfriends family love Applesauce Cake and, when I made this recipe they fell in love with it. Said it was one of the best that they ever had! - 18 May 2000 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)