Recipe - Applesauce Spice Cake With Caramel Frosting

SPICE CAKE
1 cup Butter; (2 sticks) at room
temperature
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
3 cup Flour; sifted
2 teaspoon Nutmeg
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Ground cloves
One half teaspoon Ground allspice
One half teaspoon Ginger
One fourth teaspoon Salt
16 ounce Applesauce
1 cup Walnuts; coarsely chopped
1 cup Golden raisins

CARAMEL FROSTING
Three fourths cup Unsalted butter; (1 1/2
sticks)
1 One half cup Dark brown sugar
6 tablespoon Evaporated milk
2 One half cup Sifted confectioners' sugar

1. Prepare the cake: In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an
electric mixed, until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.

2. In another large bowl, sift together sifted flour, nutmeg, cinnamon,
baking soda, cloves, allspice, ginger and salt. Slowly add sifted dry
ingredients to the butter mixture alternately with the applesauce, Mix
well. Stir in walnuts and raisins.

3. Pour batter into a greased 9by13inch baking pan. Bake in a preheated
350degree oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes
out clean; about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

4. Remove cake from pan and let cool on a wire rack.

5. Make the frosting: In a heavybottomed, medium saucepan, bring butter
and brown sugar to a boil over mediumhigh heat, stirring constantly, Boil,
stirring, for two minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the milk. Let cool
until just warm to the touch.

6. Stir in confectioners' sugar cup at a time. Mix until smooth.

Frost cake.

Recipe by: Newspaper Saved by Esther Guyer

Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by "Art Guyer" ThePoint@beachlink.com on May
12, 1998