Applesauce Cake
Unsweetened applesauce, ground allspice and ground almonds come together in this dish — 65 minutes, 7 steps, and the kind of result worth repeating. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 7 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and pan. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention.
What you'll need
Shopping list (4)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: not verified. We could not confirm unsweetened applesauce from the ingredient list, so we make no dietary claim for this recipe.
Contains: Gluten Dairy Egg Tree nuts
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How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 175 C (350 F) and grease and lightly flour a 20 cm square or 23 cm round cake pan.
- In a large bowl, cream the softened butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, then beat in the egg followed by the applesauce.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and ground almonds.
- Gradually fold the dry ingredients into the wet mixture, stirring just until no streaks of flour remain, then fold in the raisins.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until the cake is golden, springs back when lightly pressed, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.
You'll use: Oven · Pan · Whisk · Mixer
Ingredient substitutions
- Butter
- olive oil (¾ the amount) · coconut oil · margarine
Tips & common questions
How long does Applesauce Cake take to make?
About 65 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 7 steps and 11 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
What can I use instead of butter?
Try olive oil (¾ the amount). See the substitutions section above for more swaps.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Applesauce Cake suitable for my diet?
We make no dietary claim for this recipe: at least one ingredient could not be resolved to a definite plant or animal source, so labelling it either way would be a guess. The full ingredient list is above.
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Adapted recipe — rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Applesauce Cake is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Applesauce cake.jpg by John Fladd from New Boston, NH, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure — how we source recipes.