Applesauce Cake

I got into canning during the summer of 2008 and love it! Applesauce is so easy to make and put up...and cheap. Here's a great way to use it.

Stone Fence Applesauce Cake

• 3/4 cup butter or margarine

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups applesauce
• 3/4 cup shredded raw carrots
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 3 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons allspice
• 1 1/2 cups walnuts, coarsely broken
• 1 1/2 cups raisins

In large mixing bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in sugars. Beat in eggs. Measure flours into a bowl. Add soda and spices and mix well. Add these dry ingredients alternately with applesauce and carrots. Fold in walnuts and raisins. Pour batter into a greased and floured tube or bundt cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes, or until tests done. Cool in pan for 5 minutes and unmold. Cool thoroughly before cutting into thin slices. Serve sprinkled with confectioners sugar.

NOTE: Cake could also be baked in two loaf pans, if desired.