Old Fashioned Apple Sauce Cake
Love Vintage recipes? Try this one. Apple Sauce, spices, walnuts (opt) and a simple cake recipe. Very moist and flavorful. Top with basic powdered sugar to bring out the deliciousness of this cake.
Equipment
- medium mixing bowl
- large mixing bowl
- electric hand mixer
- 9 x 13 baking dish
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups apple sauce
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup walnuts (optional)
- powdered sugar, to dust top of cake
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl using an electric hand mixer, beat butter and both sugars together until combined about 2 minutes.
- Beat in eggs one at a time until combined. Beat in vanilla until combined.
- Slowly add in 1/3 of the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and beat to combine. Add in 1/2 of the milk and combine. Add 1/3 of dry ingredients, beat, the rest of the milk, then finish with the rest of the dry ingredients.
- Add in apple sauce and combine using low speed on hand mixer.
- Fold in walnuts. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes until cake is golden, pulls away from the sides and a toothpick inserted into middle of cake comes out clean.
- Cool completely. Dust top of cake with powdered sugar.