Recipe: Tasty Grandma Flora's Spiced Applesauce Cake

Grandma Flora's Spiced Applesauce Cake.

You can have Grandma Flora's Spiced Applesauce Cake using 17 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma Flora's Spiced Applesauce Cake

1. It's of cake batter.
2. You need 2 cup of unsweetened applesauce.
3. Prepare 2 tsp of baking soda.
4. You need 2 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
5. You need 1 cup of unsalted butter.
6. It's 2 large of eggs.
7. It's 2 cup of raisins.
8. Prepare 1 cup of chopped pecans.
9. You need 4 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cloves.
12. It's 2 tsp of ground cinnamon.
13. It's 1 tsp of ground nutmeg.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
15. You need 1 cup of dark spiced rum(optional).
16. Prepare of finishing touch.
17. You need 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.

Grandma Flora's Spiced Applesauce Cake instructions

1. If using optional rum, soak raisins in rum for one hour before using. Otherwise, soak raisins in one cup warm water for for one hour. Drain and set aside..
2. Sift all dry ingredients together, including spices, except baking soda. Set aside..
3. Add baking soda to applesauce. Mix well and set aside too..
4. Cream butter and sugar. Beat for 3 minutes on medium speed mixer. Stop and scrape down sides and bottom at least twice..
5. Add eggs, one at a time until each egg is well incorporated..
6. Mix in applesauce. This may look broken, it's not..
7. On low speed, mix in sifted dry ingredients. Fold in by hand the raisins and nuts..
8. Grease and flour a 10 cup Bundt cake pan. Pour in cake batter..
9. In a preheated 300°F fahrenheit oven, bake cake for 90 minutes, yes 90 minutes!.
10. Cool cake. Cover with powdered sugar and serve with fresh whipped cream..
11. Recipe by grandma Flora. Steven's most amazing and fabulous grandmother. Passed down to taylor68too..