Recipe: Cinnamon Applesauce Cake

CINNAMON APPLESAUCE CAKE

4 cups apples, sliced or chopped
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup cinnamon applesauce
1/4 cup oil
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups unsifted cake flour*
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease (or oil) a 13x9-inch baking pan.**

Mix together apples and eggs. Add next 6 ingredients.

Mix flour baking soda together, add nuts, then stir into the apple mixture. Pour into prepared baking pan.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes.

Great served warm with more cinnamon applesauce.

*All purpose flour works well too if you decrease the flour amount to 2 1/4 cups.

**To be different, try baking in a loaf pan, increasing time to 1 hour to 1 1/4 hour or until cake tests done. Also can be baked in mini loaf pans, for about 30 minutes.

Source: Grampa's Cellar Apple Orchard, Cameno, CA.