Praline Applesauce Cake

Name: Praline Applesauce Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 1 cake, 18 serving(s)
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; 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

Submitted by sweetcakes

"This is an easy to make cake. The cake is rich, with apple spices and topped with broiled-on brown-sugar pecan topping."

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Ready In:: 1hr 5mins
Ingredients:: 17
Yields:: 1 cake
Serves:: 18

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

Grease a baking pan, 13x9x2; dust lightly with flour, tapping out any excess.
Sift cake flour, sugar, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and salt into a large bowl.
Add shortening and applesauce; beat, scrapping down side of bowl often, 2 minutes at medium speed with an electric beater.
Add eggs; beat 2 minutes longer, or until blended; fold in raisins. Pour into prepared pan.
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.
Make Prailine Topping; spread enenly over warm cake.
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.
Praline Topping:.
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.
Note:.
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.