Best Moms Honey Applesauce Cake With Honey Broiler Icing Recipes

OLD FASHIONED APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs; add applesauce and mix well.
• Stir dry ingredients into mixture, alternating with water.
• Blend fruit and nuts into batter.
• Pour into greased and floured 9"x13" pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes.
• Cool in pan and frost.
• Make frosting: Combine brown sugar, 1/4 cup milk and 3 tablespoons butter in top of double boiler.
• Cook rapidly for about 3 minutes, stirring.
• Cool to luke warm and add 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Beat in confectioner's sugar to right consistency.

APPLESAUCE AND HONEY CAKE WITH RAISIN GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8x8 pan.
• Cream the butter in a large bowl; while still beating, stream in the honey. Mix in the applesauce.
• Combine the dry ingredients and mix into the applesauce mixture and beat 30 seconds.
• Fold in the nuts and raisins.
• Bake 40 minutes or until the cake springs back in the center and a toothpick comes out clean. While the cake is baking, prepare the raisin glaze.
• In a saucepan, combine the water and chopped raisins. Bring to a boil; add honey, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat and add lemon juice. While cake is still warm, pierce cake with a fork (the end of a wooden spoon is too large). Spoon the glaze over the cake.

MOTHER'S APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a tube pan.
• Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and soda. Set aside.
• Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs. Add flour mixture into creamed mixture alternately with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in the raisins, dates, and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool on wire rack.
• To make icing, melt 1/2 cup butter or margarine in a small saucepan over low heat; stir in 1 cup brown sugar. Boil for 2 minutes. Stir in milk, and continue to stir until the mixture returns to a boil. Remove from heat, and cool for 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla and confectioners' sugar. Frost cooled cake.

MOM'S HONEY APPLESAUCE CAKE WITH HONEY BROILER ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, beat egg, then mix in honey. Stir in oil.
• Sift flour, spices, salt and baking soda together.
• Stir dry ingredients alternately with applesauce into wet ingredients. Batter will be stiff.
• Pour into a 9x13 cake pan. Bake for 1 hour, or until a skewer poked into cake comes out clean.
• Cream butter and honey. Mix in remaining ingredients.
• Spread icing on cake when finished baking (no need to cool), and put back in oven.
• Broil 3 or 4 minutes until it browns (watch carefully! It can get very dark before you know it!).