Summer of Dessert
This summer I thought to spend the summer learn and trying to bake various cakes. This is the first of the cakes:
#1 Applesauce Cake
Ingrediants
1 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cups dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cups applesauce
1 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 cup chopped dates or raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
2 whole peeled apples sliced or 1/2 cups of blueberries
FOR LIGHT SYRUP Pineapple Rum Glaze:
1/2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of butter
1/3 cup of water
1/2 teaspoon of rum extra
1/2 teaspoon of pineapple extra
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly butter and sugar a 12-cup bundt pan or 2 8x4-inch loaf pans. - In a separate bowl shift together baking powder, flour, and spices.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar, applesauce, oil, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
- Stir in dry ingredients, gradually incorporate the flour mixture on low speed, until well blended.
- Stir in dates or raisins and chopped walnuts or pecans.
- Pour batter into prepared bundt pan or loaf pans.
- Place your desire of arrangement of the fruit on top of the batter. The fruits will sink while baking.
- Bake at 350° for 40 to 45 minutes, until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Afterward, about 10 to 5 minutes before the cake timers ends, prepare the light glaze.
Pineapple Rum Syrup/Glazing
- In a sauce pan, heat over a medium heat.
- Mix in the sugar and water, stir continually until smooth and bring to a boil.
- Than add the pineapple and rum extract.
-Pull out the cake from the oven. Place the cake over a pan or baking sheet in case of overflow.
-And 3-4 spoons into the cake and the edges the light syrup. Place in the over for 5 five minutes.
-Repeat 2-3 times, the process of spooning the light syrup over the cake, with cooking in the oven for 3-5 minute.
-Cool cake for 10 minutes in pan on rack.
-Remove from pan and cool completely on rack.
-Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar or drizzle with sugar
Best served with ice cream
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