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Applesauce Date Cake

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Applesauce Date Cake

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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: applesauce, cake, dates, nuts

Ingredients

  • 2 c unsifted flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp allspice
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp cloves
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 c brown sugar
  • ½ c butter or margarine
  • 2 c hot applesauce
  • 1 c chopped dates
  • ¾ c chopped nuts

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Grease and flour a 9"x9" baking pan.
  • Sift flour and baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and salt.
  • Add eggs, sugar, butter, and 1 c applesauce. Beat at low speed just until ingredients are combined.
  • At medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping sides of bowl and guiding mixture into beater.
  • Add remaining applesauce, dates, and nuts. Beat 1 additional minute.
  • Pour into pan and bake for 50 min or until knife comes clean. Let pan cool 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cake cool.
  • Frost with cream-cheese frosting.