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Apple Sauce Cakes are one of my favorite vintage recipes! Though, I still need to research why so many vintage recipes seem to want to include raisins – when I feel that they could have been left out, or not even thought of to begin with. Am I alone in that thought? Maybe raisins just aren’t one of my favorite food items, or ingredients.
I hope you give this Apple Sauce Cake recipe a try and let me know what you think!
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Enjoy and happy baking! 💋
Apple Sauce Cake Recipe

Apple Sauce Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ C raisins
- ½ C butter, softened
- 1¼ C brown sugar
- 3 C flour
- 1½ C apple sauce
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1½ tsp cinnamon
- ¾ tsp cloves
- ¾ tsp nutmeg
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- ½ C nuts (walnuts)
- 4 C boiling water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300°
- Boil water. Remove from heat, and place raisins in the water. Set aside for now.
- In large bowl, cream the brown sugar and butter until creamy. Slowly mix in eggs. Then add apple sauce. Combine thorughly
- Sift he flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Combine with wet ingredients
- Drain raisins. Pat dry. Add to cake batter and stir
- Pour into a well greased 9x13 baking pan. (or use two 8-inch cake rounds)
- Bake apporiximately 1 hour 30 minutes for 9x13 baking pan. ( Begin checking cake rounds at 45 minutes)
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