Applesauce Date Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 55 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 5 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon clove
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup soft butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 2 cups hot applesauce
• 1 cup chopped dates
• 3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 deg.
• 2 grease well and flour a 9-by-9-by-2 inch baking pan.
• 3 into a large bowl of electric mixer, sift flour with baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, salt.
• 4 then add eggs, sugar, butter, and 1 cup applesauce; at low speed, beat just until ingredients are combined.
• 5 at medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping side of bowl and guiding mixture into beater with rubber scraper.
• 6 add remaining applesauce, dates and walnuts; beat 1 minute.
• 7 pour batter into prepared pan.
• 8 bake 50 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• 9 let cool in pan 10 minutes.
• 10 remove from pan.
• 11 let cool on wire rack.
• 12 frost with a cream-cheese frosting.