Applesauce Date Cake
Servings: 14
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.