Praline Applesauce Cake

18 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour, or all purpose
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 lb applesauce, or 1 3/4 cups
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups seedless raisins
  • Praline Topping
  • 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
  • 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
  • 2/3 cup flaked coconut
  • powdered sugar, for decoration optional

Directions

  1. 1
    Grease a baking pan, 13x9x2; dust lightly with flour, tapping out any excess.
  2. 2
    Sift cake flour, sugar, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and salt into a large bowl.
  3. 3
    Add shortening and applesauce; beat, scrapping down side of bowl often, 2 minutes at medium speed with an electric beater.
  4. 4
    Add eggs; beat 2 minutes longer, or until blended; fold in raisins. Pour into prepared pan.
  5. 5
    Bake in moderate oven 350* for 35 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Remove from oven; cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Raise oven temperature to BROIL.
  6. 6
    Make Prailine Topping; spread enenly over warm cake.
  7. 7
    Broil, 6 inches from heat, 3 to 4 minutes, or until topping bubbles up and turns golden. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares.
  8. 8
    Praline Topping:.
  9. 9
    Cream butter with brown sugar until fluffy-light in a medium-size bowl; beat in cream until smooth, then stir in chopped pecans and coconut.
  10. 10
    Note:.
  11. 11
    To decorate cake, lay several inch-wider strips of wax paper diagonally across top of cooled cake; hold in place with wooden picks. Sieve powdered sugar generously over cake, then carefully lift off paper strips.

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