Before the holidays I had quite a few apples to dispose of, so I made
plain applesauce. Then I needed a recipe to use up a lot of the
applesauce (which turned out really well, BTW). I scoured my
cookbooks to find an apple cake recipe that didn't use lots of oil and
found this one in a regional (upstate NY) cookbook.

My father really, really liked this cake! (I made it w/o the nuts and
didn't chop the raisins). It was very moist and kept well in a
covered container.


Applesauce Cake
(from: Cooking Up the Creek, J.W. Bowers, Ed
Bowers Corner Press, Maine, NY
1994)
*****************************
2 c sugar
1/2 c butter
1 egg, slightly beaten
2-1/2 c applesauce, preferably homemade and unsweetened

2 T baking soda
1/2 c boiling water

2-1/2 c flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
salt

1 c raisins, chopped
1/2 c walnuts, chopped

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar, butter, and egg.
Beat in applesauce.

3. In a small bowl combine baking soda and boiling water.

4. Combine flour, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and a pinch of salt.
Add this mixture to creamed mixture alternately with dissolved baking
soda in water, mixing after each addtioin. (The book says this is
more sucessful when done by hand, with a spoon rather than a mixer;
however I didn't have any trouble with a mixer at low speed.)

5. Pour into a rectangular 8" X 13" baking pan. Bake 30-45 minutes
until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Curly Sue wrote:
> Before the holidays I had quite a few apples to dispose of, so I made
> plain applesauce. Then I needed a recipe to use up a lot of the
> applesauce (which turned out really well, BTW). I scoured my
> cookbooks to find an apple cake recipe that didn't use lots of oil and
> found this one in a regional (upstate NY) cookbook.
>
> My father really, really liked this cake! (I made it w/o the nuts and
> didn't chop the raisins). It was very moist and kept well in a
> covered container.
>


Here's another one (notice the WW flour.) I clipped this recipe from
the newspaper a few years ago:


Raisin Applesauce Snack Cake

1 C whole-wheat flour
1 C unbleached AP flour
1 C sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1/4 C canola oil
1 1/3 C unsweetened applesauce
1 C raisins

Preheat oven to 350°. Coat a 9x13 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking
spray and set aside.

Combine flours, sugar, spices, soda, and salt. In separate bowl,
combine the vanilla, egg, oil, and applesauce and mix well. Add the
applesauce mixture to the dry mixture all at once and beat at medium
speed to combine. Stir in the raisins. Pour the batter into prepared
pan and smooth the top. Bake in the center of oven for 30 minutes, or
until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool
in the pan; cut into 1 x 1 1/2 inch bars. Makes 36.

* * *

Best regards,
Bob
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On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:04:27 -0600, zxcvbob >
wrote:
>
>Here's another one (notice the WW flour.) I clipped this recipe from
>the newspaper a few years ago:
>
>Raisin Applesauce Snack Cake

Thanks Bob and Barb. Now I have to buy more apples!

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

In article >,
(Curly Sue) wrote:

> Before the holidays I had quite a few apples to dispose of, so I made
> plain applesauce. Then I needed a recipe to use up a lot of the
> applesauce (which turned out really well, BTW). I scoured my

Sue, here's a recipe for Applesauce Bars in case you're interested.
* Exported from MasterCook Mac *

Applesauce Bars

Recipe By : posted to r.f.cooking by Barb Schaller 1-2-2006
Serving Size : 24 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Bars

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar (3/4 cup)
1 egg
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
2 cups flour
1 cup thick applesauce
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Cream butter and sugar until light, add egg and beat well. Sift dry
ingredients together and add alternately with applesauce, beating well
after each addition. Stir in raisins and nuts and spread in a greased
10x15² jelly roll pan.

Bake at 375 for 25 minutes. Cut while warm. Frost with powdered sugar
icing, using coffee as liquid.

I've made this for 30 years. It's good. My sister's recipe.
-Barb

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Curly Sue wrote:

> Before the holidays I had quite a few apples to dispose of, so I made
> plain applesauce. Then I needed a recipe to use up a lot of the
> applesauce (which turned out really well, BTW). I scoured my
> cookbooks to find an apple cake recipe that didn't use lots of oil and
>
> found this one in a regional (upstate NY) cookbook.
>
> My father really, really liked this cake! (I made it w/o the nuts and
>
> didn't chop the raisins). It was very moist and kept well in a
> covered container.

Me mum used to make something similar, no nuts or raisins that i recall
and she very, very gently folded the apples sauce into the batter in
such a way that there would be pockets of applesauce running through the
cake rather than homogenized into it.
---
JL

>
>
> Applesauce Cake
> (from: Cooking Up the Creek, J.W. Bowers, Ed
> Bowers Corner Press, Maine, NY
> 1994)
> *****************************
> 2 c sugar
> 1/2 c butter
> 1 egg, slightly beaten
> 2-1/2 c applesauce, preferably homemade and unsweetened
>
> 2 T baking soda
> 1/2 c boiling water
>
> 2-1/2 c flour
> 1/2 tsp cinnamon
> 1/2 tsp ground cloves
> 1/2 tsp allspice
> salt
>
> 1 c raisins, chopped
> 1/2 c walnuts, chopped
>
> Directions
> 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
>
> 2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together sugar, butter, and egg.
> Beat in applesauce.
>
> 3. In a small bowl combine baking soda and boiling water.
>
> 4. Combine flour, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and a pinch of salt.
> Add this mixture to creamed mixture alternately with dissolved baking
> soda in water, mixing after each addtioin. (The book says this is
> more sucessful when done by hand, with a spoon rather than a mixer;
> however I didn't have any trouble with a mixer at low speed.)
>
> 5. Pour into a rectangular 8" X 13" baking pan. Bake 30-45 minutes
> until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
>
> Sue(tm)
> Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!