{"id":2285,"date":"2010-11-25T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2010-11-25T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T21:47:32","slug":"chocolate-applesauce-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate applesauce cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For more than 50 years, this has been my favorite cake. My mother first started making it when I was in grade school. I’ve had it as a birthday cake more times than I’d care to count. But since today is Thanksgiving and tomorrow is my birthday, that seemed like occasion enough to make a particularly sinful version of the cake.<\/p>\n

I’ve found that this cake loves to have nutmeg, or cherries, or both, in the icing. So to the plain white icing (butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and soy milk) I added nutmeg. I also threw in some chocolate-covered cherry cordials and let the mixer chop the cherries and chocolate into the icing.<\/p>\n

The remarkable thing about the cake itself is that it contains no eggs. The only liquid ingredient is applesauce. This makes a dense, hearty cake that stays moist for a long time and keeps well. My recipe is written in pencil on a very old piece of notebook paper. Here is the bare bones recipe. Experienced cooks will know what to do with it.<\/p>\n

Cream together 1 cup of sugar and 1\/2 cup of butter (I use olive oil instead of butter). Add half a cup of cocoa and mix well. Then add 1 and 1\/2 cups of applesauce and mix again. In a separate bowl, sift together two cups plain flour, 2 teaspoons of baking soda, some cinnamon, and some nutmeg. Fold the flour mixture into the other ingredients.<\/p>\n

Put the batter into two 9-inch cake pans that have been buttered and dusted with flour. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 18 minutes, until a toothpick stuck into the center of the cake comes out clean.<\/p>\n

Many years ago, in Sausalito across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, I won a Valentine’s Day chocolate contest with this cake. For the icing on that cake, I chopped lots of maraschino cherries into the icing and made the icing pink.<\/p>\n

It’s also a vegan cake if you substitute olive oil for the butter. I’ve never tried it, but you probably could substitute coconut oil for the butter in the icing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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