Description
Moist applesauce delight cake brings classic comfort to dessert tables with rich, spiced flavors. Warm cinnamon and tender crumb invite sweet memories of home-baked goodness you’ll savor.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup (200g) sugar
- 1 ¾ cups (217g) all-purpose flour
- 1 cup applesauce
- ½ cup (113g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 ½ tsps cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cloves
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preparation Setup: Warm the oven to 350°F (175°C) and lavishly spray a 9-inch loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray, ensuring complete coverage.
- Dry Ingredient Fusion: Whisk flour, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl until perfectly integrated and free of lumps.
- Butter-Sugar Transformation: Utilize an electric mixer to cream butter and sugar, whipping until the mixture achieves a luxurious, pale, and airy consistency with pronounced volume.
- Wet Ingredient Integration: Blend the beaten egg into the butter-sugar mixture, then gently fold in the applesauce, ensuring a smooth, unified batter with consistent texture.
- Batter Completion: Delicately incorporate the dry ingredient mixture into the wet ingredients, folding with minimal manipulation to prevent toughening, stopping when no flour streaks remain visible.
- Baking Process: Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, smoothing the surface with a spatula, then position in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes until a toothpick inserted centrally emerges completely clean.
- Cooling and Finishing: Allow the cake to rest in the pan for 10-15 minutes, then carefully transfer to a wire rack for complete cooling, optionally dusting with a delicate veil of powdered sugar before serving.
Notes
- Spice Selection Matters: Choose fresh, high-quality ground spices to ensure a robust, aromatic flavor profile that elevates the cake’s taste.
- Butter Temperature Tip: Ensure butter is softened at room temperature but not melted, creating the perfect creamy texture when mixed with sugar.
- Mixing Technique: Avoid overmixing the batter after adding dry ingredients, as this can develop gluten and create a tough, dense cake texture.
- Moisture Magic: Use unsweetened applesauce for a moist, tender cake that doesn’t become overly sweet or soggy.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 278
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 180mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 30mg