This warmly spiced cake is a perfect dessert as the leaves start to change. Cinnamon, applesauce, and clove give the cake its delicious flavor, fall in every bite. And if you’ve picked your own apples this fall, fresh applesauce will make this that much better.
I think this is such a cozy dessert and the resulting cake is perfectly moist, all topped off with an amazing burnt cinnamon sugar frosting.
Burnt Cinnamon Sugar Frosting has a unique taste. It’s a potluck, country road, spent more time in the kitchen flavor. There’s no store-bought frosting that gives you this. You’ll have to “burn” the sugar yourself, but let me tell you- it is definitely worth every lick of the spoon and every bite. It definitely has it’s own unique flavor.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
First, cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer.
Add the eggs and beat well. Then, add the applesauce.
Grinding the cloves. Don’t you love the smell?
Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
Sift dry ingredients into applesauce mixture. Beat until smooth.
Bake in a greased 8 x 8 pan at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Now, my favorite, the frosting!
Melt the cinnamon sugar in a skillet over low heat until dark brown and smooth.
It’s getting there!
Remove from heat, add boiling water, return to heat, and stir rapidly until a syrup texture.
Place all ingredients and syrup mixture except vanilla in a double boiler and beat until thoroughly combined.
Cook over boiling water, beating steadily until frosting forms peaks. This will take a little while. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and beat until thick enough to spread.
Keep whisking! You might need to use some muscle…
Ingredients
- Applesauce cake
- ½ cup salted butter
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 cups oat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- frosting:
- ½ cup cinnamon sugar
- ½ cup boiling water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1/3 cup cold water
- 1/16 salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter and sugar in stand mixer.
- Add eggs and beat well. Add applesauce.
- Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
- Sift dry ingredients into applesauce mixture. Beat until smooth.
- Bake in a greased 8 x 8 pan at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
- Frosting:
- Melt the cinnamon sugar in a skillet over low heat until dark brown and smooth.
- Remove from heat, add boiling water, return to heat, and stir rapidly until a syrup texture.
- Place all ingredients and syrup mixture except vanilla in a double boiler and beat until thoroughly combined.
- Cook over boiling water, beating steadily until frosting forms peaks. This will take a little while. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and beat until thick enough to spread.
The moist, semi-chunky cake, spread with the frosting equivalent of brown sugar fudge, is perfect served with a cup of coffee or, better still, a glass of ice-cold milk.