Applesauce date cake

12 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Flour (unsifted)
2 teaspoons Soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Allspice
½ teaspoon Nutmeg
¼ teaspoon Cloves
¼ teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
1 cup Lt. brown sugar (packd firm)
½ cup Butter (softened)
2 cups Applesauce (heated)
1 cup Dates (chopped)
¾ cup Pecans (coarse-shopped)
Butter frosting

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease well and flour a 9X9X2" pan. 2. Into large bowl, sift flour with soda, spices and salt. Add eggs, brown sugar, butter, and 1 cup hot applesauce; at low speed, beat just until the ingredients are combined. 3. At medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping the side of the bowl and guiding mixture into the beater with a rubber scraper. 4. Add remaining applesauce, dates, and walnuts; beat 1 minute. 5. Pour batter into pan. Bake 50 minutes OR UNTIL straw comes out clean.

Cool 10 minutes in pan.

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