Recipe

Applesauce Buttermilk Spice Cake

Applesauce Buttermilk Spice Cake

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Apple Cake
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    Sweet Life Kitchen's Notes: This is an awesome post-apple picking recipe because you use fresh chopped apples AND applesauce!! I love to make this cake with homemade applesauce, but in a pinch the store-bought stuff...

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Serves 10

  1. Grease a 9 inch diameter bundt pan or a 9x9 square baking dish.

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  2. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and center a rack.

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  3. In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and set aside.

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  4. Finely chop 3/4 of one of the apples...set the other 1/4 aside.

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  5. Using a mandoline slicer, thinly slice one apple into slices and set aside.

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  6. In the bowl of a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment combine the butter sugar and shortening until fluffy, then add the vanilla and mix until incorporated.

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  7. Add the egg and mix, then the applesauce and mix, until incorporated.

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  8. Slowly add the flour mixture and the buttermilk bit by bit alternating each, until all ingredients are mixed in, stop and scrape the bottom & sides of the bowl at least once. Then add the chopped fresh apple by handfuls, while the mixer is on a low speed until fully incorporated.

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  9. Use the thin sliced apple to line the bottom of the pan you are using, then pour the batter on top of the thin apple slices.

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  10. Bake at 400 for about 40-45 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean.

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  11. Let stand about 10 minutes, then invert/flip the cake out onto a cake plate to cool completely.

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5 Comments on Applesauce Buttermilk Spice Cake

Photo1 Reply

Wow- sensitive response feature. OOPS!

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EEP!! I typed this half asleep, but made corrections thanks to M.E. in Wisconsin!! See revisions here!~http://www.sweetlifekitchen.com/2009/10/applesauce-buttermilk-spice-cake.html
Must have been so excited to get this posted!!

Photo1 Reply

EEP!! I typed this half asleep, but made corrections thanks to M.E. in Wisconsin!! See revisions here!~http://www.sweetlifekitchen.com/2009/10/applesauce-buttermilk-spice-cake.html
Must have been so excited to get this posted!!

Photo1 Reply

EEP!! I typed this half asleep, but made corrections thanks to M.E. in Wisconsin!! See revisions here!~http://www.sweetlifekitchen.com/2009/10/applesauce-buttermilk-spice-cake.html
Must have been so excited to get this posted!!

Photo1 Reply

EEP!! I typed this half asleep, but made corrections thanks to M.E. in Wisconsin!! See revisions here!~http://www.sweetlifekitchen.com/2009/10/applesauce-buttermilk-spice-cake.html
Must have been so excited to get this posted!!

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