Name: Mother's Applesauce Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: All-purpose flour - 3 ½ cups; Salt - ½ teaspoon; Ground cinnamon - 2 teaspoons; Ground cloves - 1 teaspoon; Baking soda - 3 teaspoons; Butter - ½ cup; Packed brown sugar - 2 cups; Eggs, beaten - 2; Unsweetened applesauce - 3 cups; Raisins - ½ cup; Dates, pitted and chopped - ½ cup; Chopped walnuts - 1 cup; Butter - ½ cup; Packed brown sugar - 1 cup; Milk - ¼ cup; Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon; Sifted confectioners' sugar - 2 cups

Ingredients for - Mother's Applesauce Cake

1. All-purpose flour 3 ½ cups

2. Salt ½ teaspoon

3. Ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons

4. Ground cloves 1 teaspoon

5. Baking soda 3 teaspoons

6. Butter ½ cup

7. Packed brown sugar 2 cups

8. Eggs, beaten 2

9. Unsweetened applesauce 3 cups

10. Raisins ½ cup

11. Dates, pitted and chopped ½ cup

12. Chopped walnuts 1 cup

13. Butter ½ cup

14. Packed brown sugar 1 cup

15. Milk ¼ cup

16. Vanilla extract 1 teaspoon

17. Sifted confectioners' sugar 2 cups

How to cook deliciously - Mother's Applesauce Cake

1 . Stage

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.

2 . Stage

Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.

3 . Stage

Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs. Add flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in the raisins, dates, and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.

4 . Stage

Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool on wire rack.

5 . Stage

To make icing, melt 1/2 cup butter or margarine in a small saucepan over low heat; stir in 1 cup brown sugar. Boil for 2 minutes. Stir in milk, and continue to stir until the mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat, and cool for 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and confectioners' sugar. Frost cooled cake.