This moist and delicious Applesauce Spice Cake is so easy to throw together and is the perfect fall dessert or snack!
This delicious applesauce spice cake is the perfect bake for fall! It's loaded with heart warming spices, applesauce and fresh apple pieces. It's fantastic on its own or topped with frosting or a cream cheese maple glaze. Enjoy!
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Equipment
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Cake tin
Ingredients
- All purpose flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Spices: I love using cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and cardamom.
- Salt
- Sour cream
- Brown sugar
- White granulated sugar
- Eggs: Ideally at room temperature.
- Unsalted butter
- Vanilla extract
- Unsweetened applesauce
- Large apple
Serving Suggestions
This cake is fabulous served on its own. It's also great with cream cheese frosting or a cream cheese maple glaze.
Cream Cheese Maple Glaze Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 4 tbsp maple syrup
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl or bowl of an electric stand mixer. Blend together until smooth.
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Recipe
Applesauce Spice Cake
This moist and delicious Applesauce Spice Cake is so easy to throw together and is the perfect fall dessert or snack!
Equipment
- Mixing bowls
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Sheet cake pan
Ingredients
- 2.5 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- ¾ tsp salt
- 8 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup white granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- ⅓ cup sour cream I recommend full fat
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups unsweetened applesauce
- 1 large apple, peeled and diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon. ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom and salt. In a separate bowl combine melted butter and brown and white sugar. Whisk to combine. Then add eggs and sour cream and whisk until well incorporated. Add in vanilla extract and applesauce, mix to combine. Add half of the dry mixture into the wet mixture and stir to combine. Then add the remaining dry mixture and stir until there are no white streaks of flour yet, being careful not to over mix. Then fold in the diced apple.
- Line a sheet cake pan with parchment paper and prepare with butter and flour (or your preferred non stick baking spray). Pour the batter into the pan and then bake at 350 degrees F for 35-40 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, at which point you can carefully place a wire rack on top of the cake then carefully flip it over to remove from the pan. You can eat the cake warm or allow it to cool and add frosting or Cream Cheese Maple Glaze (see recipe above). Enjoy!
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This apple cake was amazing, it had so much flavor and my kids couldn't get enough of the icing. I actually air fried mine for about 20 minutes with the batter split into 2 smaller square cake pans. Definitely a keeper!
this spice cake is full of flavor and yes easy to make too. I use homemade applesauce for this and planning to make again.
This recipe brought me back to my childhood! My mom used to make applesauce spice cake - just like this - and now I have the recipe!! Thanks!
Simple, moist and so much flavour. A great cake and everyone loved it.
Sounds like an amazing cake and I want to make it soon. What size pan did u use? 9x13 or 11x15?
Hi Lynne- I recommend using a 9x13 pan. Hope you enjoy!