Applesauce Spice Cake With Brown Sugar Icing

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
• 1/3 cup buttermilk
• 1/3 cup butter
• 2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 tablespoons corn syrup
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted

Recipe

• 1 for the cake, grease a 9" x 13" cake pan; line the bottom with parchment paper.
• 2 set aside.
• 3 in a large bowl, beat the butter with the brown sugar until fluffy; beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• 4 beat in the vanilla.
• 5 in a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and nutmeg.
• 6 stir into the butter mixture alternately with the applesauce and buttermilk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet.
• 7 spread in the prepared pan.
• 8 bake in the centre of a 350 degree f oven until the cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
• 9 let cool in the pan on a rack.
• 10 for the icing, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
• 11 add the brown sugar and corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
• 12 boil just until blended, about 1 minute.
• 13 remove from the heat.
• 14 using a wooden spoon, stir the milk and vanilla into the butter mixture.
• 15 again using a wooden spoon, beat in the icing sugar until smooth and spreadable; let cool for 1 minute.
• 16 spread over the top of the cake just to the edge, letting the icing drizzle over slightly.