Easy Applesauce Recipes

Easy Applesauce Cake Recipe

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup applesauce
• 1 1/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cocoa

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and applesauce. Add sifted dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Can be made into a small sheet cake or use a round cake pan. It makes 1 cake.

My Note: If you make a sheetcake, it is not very thick, maybe a 1/2 inch. This cake is suppose to be served in the pan it was baked. Also I didn't have any cocoa, so I added a half of a dry package of Nestle hot cocoa mix as a substitute. And also check the cake after 20 min, just to be sure it doesn't burn.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:

• 1 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 ounces softened cream cheese

Mix well, and frost on cooled cake. Perfect for applesauce or carrot cake too

Applesauce Cake

• 1 egg
• 2 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. shortening
• 2 c. unsweetened applesauce
• 1 c. raisins
• 3 c. flour
• 2 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. cloves
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/4 c. brown sugar
• 1/4 c. white sugar
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 c. chopped nuts

Beat egg. Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg to sugar-shortening mixture. Sift flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Add sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Add applesauce and raisins. Pour into 9x13 pan. Sprinkle with the following topping before you bake the cake. Bake for 40 minutes in 350 oven.

TOPPING

• 1/4 c. brown sugar
• 1/4 c. white sugar
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• Chopped nuts

Mix together the brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon and nuts.

Recipe From 1998 Platte SD Hospital Recipe book pg 29

Easy Applesauce Nut Bread

• 2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon soda
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/4 cup salad oil

Mix sifted dry ingredients and nuts. Combine egg, applesauce and oil. Add to first part and stir until just blended. Pour into 5x9 greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 30 min.

Applesauce Loaf

• 1/2 c. shortening
• 2/3 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 1 c. thick applesauce (sweetened or unsweetened)
• 2 c. flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 c. chopped nuts

Mix shortening, brown sugar and eggs together thoroughly. Stir in applesauce. Sift together dry ingredients. Stir into applesauce mixture. Add nuts. Pour in greased 5x10x3 in. bread pan. Bake 50 to 55 min. at 350 degrees.

Spiced Applesauce Cookies

Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Mix in bowl:
• 1/2 c. shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 c. sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 c. applesauce

Mix in another bowl:
• 2 c. flour
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. cloves

Add to first mixture. Drop by teaspoons on greased cookie sheet leaving space in between.

See the recipe: Spiced Applesauce Cookies

Applesauce Brownies

Melt over hot water:
• 1/2 c. shortening
• 2 squares chocolate

Blend in:
• 1 c. sugar
• 1/2 c. applesauce
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Sift together and stir in:
• 1 c. sifted flour
• 1/4 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt

Fold in 1/2 cup nuts.
Spread in greased and floured pan 9x9x1 3/4 pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees. While hot cut into oblong pieces. Cool. Remove with spatula.
See this recipe: Applesauce Brownies