Applesauce Date Cake Food

APPLESAUCE LOAF CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Add to applesauce mixture; mix well. Stir in the raisins and walnuts. Pour into two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 9x13 baking dish.
• Combine all ingredients; pour in prepared pan.
• Bake 60-65 minutes or until done.

MOTHER'S APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

DATE-SWEETENED HOMEMADE APPLESAUCE

Steps:

• Add peeled, cored, and chopped apples to a large pot (I use a 7-1/4 quart Dutch oven) along with the cinnamon sticks and lemon peel. Add 1 1/2 cups water.
• Place on the stove over medium-high heat, bring to a boil, and reduce to a simmer. Cover and cook until the apples are tender, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place the pitted dates and 1/2 cup water in the pitcher of a high-speed blender. Puree until completely smooth, adding additional water if needed to keep things going.
• If, after the 20 minutes, the apples are tender enough to mash with a potato masher, go ahead and mash them as much as possible. Otherwise, cover them back up and give them a bit more time to cook.
• Once the apples are mashed and stirrable, add the pureed dates. Stir until combined. Taste and add more sweetener if desired (see notes). Continue simmering until applesauce is the thickness you'd like. I cook it for just a few more minutes and it's usually perfect.
• Remove the lemon peel and cinnamon sticks and discard.
• If you want completely smooth applesauce, let it cool and then puree in batches in the blender.
• Store in airtight jars in the refrigerator. With a batch this big, I usually like to freeze some in jars or freezer bags to enjoy later on.

APPLESAUCE DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 deg.
• Grease well and flour a 9-by-9-by-2 inch baking pan.
• Into a large bowl of electric mixer, sift flour with baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, salt.
• Then add eggs, sugar, butter, and 1 cup applesauce; at low speed, beat just until ingredients are combined.
• At medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping side of bowl and guiding mixture into beater with rubber scraper.
• Add remaining applesauce, dates and walnuts; beat 1 minute.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 50 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan.
• Let cool on wire rack.
• Frost with a Cream-Cheese frosting.

APPLESAUCE DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F
• Spray a 13 X 9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a small bowl, combine flour, rolled oats, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and cloves; set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar and butter; beat until light and fluffy.
• Add vanilla and egg; beat well.
• Add flour mixture alternately with applesauce, beating after each addition.
• Stir in dates.
• Spread batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool.
• Sprinmkle with powdered sugar just before serving.

APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, cream the butter. Add the brown sugar and continue mixing. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla, then mix until well blended and fluffy.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. Add to the creamed mixture alternately with the applesauce. Fold in the raisins and walnuts. Pour batter into a greased and floured loaf or tube pan and bake until firm to the touch, about 40 to 45 minutes. Let cool in the pan, then turn it out, and dust with powdered sugar.

APPLESAUCE CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch pan.
• Beat flour, white sugar, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, applesauce, water, shortening, 2 eggs, raisins, and 1/2 cup chopped almonds with a mixer on low, scraping the bowl constantly, 30 seconds. Beat on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally, 3 minutes. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 60-65 minutes.
• To Make Frosting: Just before cake is removed from the oven, beat egg whites until foamy. Beat brown sugar and lemon juice gradually into egg whites until stiff. Carefully spread over HOT cake. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) until brown, 8 to 10 minutes.

APPLESAUCE DATE NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Mix the walnuts, dates, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
• Microwave the applesauce in a microswave safe bowl until heated through.
• Add shortening to the applesauce and stir until melted.
• Add applesauce mixture to walnut mixture and mix well.
• Let stand, loosely covered, for 20 minutes.
• Beat the eggs in a large mixing bowl using a fork.
• Add the vanilla, sugar and flour and mix well.
• The mixture will be very dry.
• ADd the walnut mixture 1.4 at a time, mixing gently after each addition.
• Do not overbeat.
• Spoon into a greased 9x5 loaf pan.
• Bake at 350º for 65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Wrap in foil and store for 8 to 12 hours before slicing.

SHREDDED APPLE-DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Lightly oil a 10" round deep pan, and set the oven rack to middle of the oven position.
• In a food processor bowl, or by hand, chop the dates and pecans together until they look almost like crumbs.
• Put the chopped mix into mixing bowl big enough to hold all ingredients, probably a 3 quart or 4 quart size is best.
• Shred the apples, and add them with the lemon juice, softened butter sub and sweetener to the bowl, mixing well and coating the apples with lemon juice.
• Sift the flour with salt and baking soda, and add to the bowl, mix very well.
• Spoon mixture into prepared 10" round pan and top with cinnamon and sugar, blended together.
• Bake at 350° for 45 minutes, covering the top lightly at the 30 minute mark with a foil or parchment paper round if it browns more than you like.
• Test for doneness with a long pick in the middle, if still slightly gooey, turn off the oven and rest another 15 minutes.
• Let cool 15 minutes before turning out or cutting---it will crumble if cut too soon, but a serrated knife minimizes that.

LOW SUGAR DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease and flour an 8x8 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, eggs, sweetener, vanilla, cloves and cinnamon until creamy. Sift together the flour and baking powder, and mix in. Fold in dates, chopped pecans and applesauce. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

APPLESAUCE CAKE I

Steps:

• Cream butter or margarine with sugar. Add applesauce; beat well. Stir in flour, soda, and spices. Add nuts and raisins.
• Pour the batter into a greased and floured 8 inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes, or until done. Serve warm.