Applesauce Gingerbread Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9-by-13-inch glass or light-colored metal baking pan.
• In a large bowl, whisk sugar and eggs until light, about 1 minute. Add applesauce, oil, fresh and ground ginger, orange zest, cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, vanilla extract and salt. Whisk to combine.
• Add the flour, baking soda and baking powder, and whisk until just combined. Fold in 1/2 cup chopped candied ginger.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top and firmly tap the pan on a countertop to release air bubbles. Bake the cake until golden and puffed, and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 25 to 35 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan on a rack.
• When the cake is cool, make the frosting: Add the cream cheese and butter to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Mix on medium-high until smooth, stopping the mixer occasionally to scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl. Turn the speed to low, and slowly add the confectioners' sugar. Mix until the sugar is moistened, then turn the mixer speed up to medium-high and whip until smooth. Scrape down the bottom and sides of the bowl. Add the ginger, lemon zest, vanilla and salt, and mix on low.
• Spread the frosting over the cooled cake in dramatic swoops and swirls, then sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup crystalized ginger on top. Serve at room temperature.

Steps:

• preheat oven to 180 Celsius grease sides and line bottom of 24 cm springform tin.
• using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar.
• add vanilla, egg and applesauce.
• with mixer on low, beat in dry ingredients.
• spoon 3/4 mix into tin and place pie apple across the mix, not quite to the edges.
• place the rest of the mix in blobs over the apple.
• cook for approx 50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
• cool in tin for 10 minutes then remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• glaze if desired.
• GLAZE:.
• mix all together until smooth and spoon over cake.
• allow to harden.

Steps:

• 1. Combine dry ingredients
• 2. add molasses, oil, egg and applesauce. Blend well
• 3. Add soda to boiling water and mix immediately in to the rest of the ingredients. Pour in to an 8" x 8*' greased pan. Bake at 350 45 - 50 minutes
• 4. Optional Glaze: 1 cup icing sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice. Mix and pour over cake while warm