Check out what my friends at Martha Stewart had to say about this amazing applesauce cake:
This recipe is great! I replaced one cup of the homemade apple sauce for one cup homemade unsweetened apple butter and added about one two diced apples. I called it my triple threat apple cake. I really wanted to honor the beautiful organic apples I had just picked at my sisters. It was amazing! I highly recommend the apple butter; it gave it this beautiful richness. One of the best cakes I have ever made.
She’s not kidding! If you love apples, you’ll adore this cake. My entire family ate it at lightning speed, and my daughter asked, “Mommy when will you make this again? Tomorrow?” She’s so adorable it was hard to say no. I know Marie Antoinette said to ‘Let them eat cake!’ but I try to at least skip a day between goodies.
Ingredients
3 cups Gold Medal all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
2 teaspoons Clabber Girl baking soda
1 teaspoon Morton’s salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cardamom
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted Land O Lakes butter, room temperature
2 cups packed light-brown sugar
1/4 cup Sue Bee honey
2 large Eggland’s Best eggs
2 cups Whitehouse chunky applesauce
Pam Nonstick cooking spray
Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting (optional)
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a nonstick 9-inch tube pan with cooking spray.
Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cardamom. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, beat butter, brown sugar, and honey until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until combined. With mixer on low, gradually add flour mixture; beat just until combined. Beat in applesauce.
Spoon batter into pan; smooth top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean (but slightly wet), 50 to 60 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack 10 minutes. Then, invert cake onto rack, top side up. Cool completely.
Quick Tip: Mix cinnamon and sugar for the topping, though the cinnamon won’t show up you’ll definitely taste it. Yum!
Thank you to Martha Stewart for this awesome recipe!
Thank you for all recipes; I would like to know is it possible to print them?…it wil helpme to have it i front of me to remenber all the ingredients. Thanks, I appreciate your delicious and variety of recipes. Thank you and Happy New Year’s.
Nora Moller