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Classic Apple Sauce Spice Cake
6 servings · 85 min total
A moist, old-fashioned spice cake made rich with apple sauce, warm cinnamon and cloves, studded with raisins and walnuts.
Ingredients
- 300 g wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp salt
- 120 g butter, softened
- 200 g brown sugar
- 2 egg
- 4¾ dl apple sauce
- 150 g raisins
- 100 g walnuts, chopped
Contains: Gluten, Milk, Egg, Tree nuts, Sulphites
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Method
- 1.
Prep the baking pan — Preheat the oven to 175°C (350°F). Grease and flour a bundt or loaf pan.
- 2.
Whisk the dry ingredients — In a bowl, whisk together the wheat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt.
- 3.
Cream butter and sugar — In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time.
- 4.
Fold in the dry mix — Stir the apple sauce into the butter mixture, then fold in the dry ingredients until just combined.
- 5.
Fold in raisins and walnuts — Fold in the raisins and chopped walnuts, then pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- 6.
Bake and cool the cake — Bake for 50-55 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before turning out onto a rack.