You need just one bowl and one pan while preparing this quick and delicious spice cake with applesauce and pecans.
Ingredients
- ½ cups all-purpose flour: 2 piece
- ¾ cups white sugar: 1 piece
- ½ teaspoons baking soda: 1 piece
- salt: 0.25 tsp
- baking powder: 0.5 tsp
- ground cinnamon: 0.75 tsp
- ground cloves: 0.5 tsp
- ground allspice: 0.5 tsp
- butter: 0.5 cup
- buttermilk: 0.5 cup
- ½ cups applesauce: 1 piece
- eggs: 2 piece
- walnuts: 0.75 cup (chopped)
- butter: 0.25 cup
- pecans: 1 cup (chopped)
- confectioners' sugar: 4 cups
- cream cheese: 1 pack (8 ounce pack, softened)
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract: 1 piece
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Stages of cooking
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Sift flour, white sugar, soda, salt, baking powder, and spices into a large mixing bowl. Mix in 1/2 cup butter or margarine, buttermilk, and applesauce. Beat for 2 minutes with an electric mixer on medium speed. Beat in eggs. Fold in 3/4 cup chopped nuts. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 x 13 inch pan.
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Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes.
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Mix confectioners' sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth. Melt 1/4 cup butter over medium heat, and add 1 cup chopped pecans. Keep stirring until browned. Stir cooled pecans into cream cheese mixture. Frost the cooled cake.
