Gluten-Free Applesauce Cake

Hi Bakers,  It’s the 1970’s and you’ve just run home from school and are starving. We didn’t have any cool snacks in the house growing up, but sometimes I would open the door and smell this Applesauce Cake! It was one of the few treats we had regularly and I always loved it. Maybe my Mom baked it because all the fruit made it healthier in her eyes. Applesauce cake has just a bit of spice and subtle apple flavor. It’s the perfect sweetness for dessert or an afternoon snack. A cup of applesauce in the batter makes the cake moist but light. I love adding some mixed dried fruit and baking small loaves to give to friends. The fruit cake everyone enjoys! Have fun eating and baking this simple yet delicious cake-Carolyn

Gluten-Free Applesauce Cake

Adapted for gluten-free from The Joy of Cooking’s recipe for Applesauce Cake

Dry Ingredients

1½ cups Cup4Cup Multipurpose Gluten-Free Flour

¼ cup blanched almond flour

1 teaspoon sweet rice flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground cloves

Wet Ingredients

½ cup softened butter

1 cup lightly packed light brown sugar or granulated

1 large egg

1 cup raisins

1 cup mixed dried fruit or nuts

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

Preheat oven to 350F and grease a 10’ tube pan.

In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together dry ingredients and set aside.

Beat butter and sugar together until well combined. Add egg and mix well. Stir in dry ingredients until just mixed. The batter will be very thick like cookie batter.  Add the dried fruit and mix in. Stir in applesauce until just mixed. The batter is dense, so it takes a minute or two to incorporate the applesauce completely. Scoop into the prepared tube pan and smooth the top. Bake on the center rack for 40-45 minutes or until the cake springs back when touched in the center or a knife inserted into the cake comes out clean. Cool on rack. Enjoy!

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