Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Apple Sauce Holiday Spice Cake





Ingredients: 

2 cups of all-purpose flour or cake flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1 stick of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of apple sauce
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp of ground ginger
1/4 tsp of nutmeg
1/2 tsp of all spice
1 tsp pure vanilla
2 large eggs
confectioners sugar for sprinkling

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9-inch cake pan.

In a bowl combine flour, baking soda, and the spices.  In a saucepan melt the butter.
Once heated, remove the pan of butter and whisk in the sugar and one egg at a time.  Add the vanilla.

Combine the flour mixture with the egg mixture.

Bake until there is a clean center, about 35 minutes. 

Cool on a wire rack.