Applesauce Cider Cake

                                                                           

This Cake is a winner! Spectacular to see & to taste! 

So soft, moist, sweet & yet spicy! The Apple Cider Glaze is the perfect touch! 

CAKE: 

1/2 Cup Shortening

1&3/4 Cup Sugar

1 Egg

1/2 Cup Apple Cider heated to boiling

1 TSP Vanilla

2 Cups Applesauce

2&1/2 Cups Flour

1/2 TSP Salt

1/2 TSP Cloves

1/2 TSP Allspice

Dash or 2 of Nutmeg

2 TSP Cinnamon

2 TSP Baking Soda

Prepare a Bundt pan with baking spray & flour or grease with shortening & flour. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees. 

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the shortening, Beat in the sugar, Beat until fluffy. Now beat in the egg, vanilla  & the applesauce. Brig cider to a boil remove from heat. Now beat in 1/3 of the dry ingredients to your creamed mixture, beat until combined. Now pour in 1/3 of the hot cider & beat well. Next add 1/3 flour bat then remaining cider, now beat in the rest of the flour mixture. OPTIONAL AT THIS POINT fold in 1 Cup Chopped Walnuts or Pecans & or 1 Cup Raisins or Dates. I left mine plain this time! Now pour batter into your prepared pan. Place cake in oven & beside the cake sit a 9 inch cake pan that is 3/4 full of water. This will make your cake moist! Bake for 1 hour. Once cake test done remove from oven & let cool 10 minutes before you dump it out onto your serving plate, let cool. Then Glaze with the following glaze or frost with vanilla frosting or just powder with powdered sugar!

CIDER GLAZE:

2 Cups Apple Cider

4 TBS Butter

Dash of Salt

1 TSP Vanilla 

3 Cups Powdered Sugar

Bring cider to a boil, add butter & vanilla & bring back up to the boil. Now whisk in the powdered sugar. Boil on a rolling boil for about 10 minutes whisking the entire time. Bring to soft ball stage on your candy thermometer  or just cook on rolling boil until color changes & it his some thickness to it. Take off the heat & let cool until just warm. Spoon generously over your cooled cake! YUM!