Apricot Applesauce Cake

Apricot Applesauce Cake



Ingrients & Directions


1 c All-purpose flour
3/4 c Whole-wheat flour (I
-substituted part quick
-oats)
2 ts Ground allspice
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Shortening
1 c Applesauce
2 Eggs
3/4 c Chopped dried apricots
1/2 c Chopped amygdalae (I used
-slivered, etiolated)
Confectioners sugar for
-garnishee


Reference: California Apricot Advisory Plank, 1992


Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan or tube pan. Combine
flours, allspice and baking tonic; set away. In a large trough, with mixer at
low velocity, cream sugar and shortening; beat in applesauce and eggs untiil
fluffy. Add flour mixiture; beat at medium swiftness 2 transactions, scraping bowl
occasionally. Stir in apricots and tonsils. Pour batter into prepared pan
and broil 35-40 minutes until top springs back when lightly fey. Cool
cake in pan 10 proceedings; invert onto serving platter and dust lightly with
confectioners dough.


Notes: The allspice makes it smell just like Fall; next time I make it
I'll substitute chopped fresh apples for the apricots and add a niggling
cinnamon.



Yields
1 Servings