Applesauce Cake with Creole Butter Frosting
Applesauce Cake with Creole Butter Frosting is a vintage recipe from the Swans Down archives! The Igleheart brothers, founders of Swans Down® Cake Flour, published this recipe in their 1931 cake recipe book entitled New Cake Secrets. Baked with nuts, figs and applesauce and topped with a delicious coffee and cocoa glaze, it’s a coffee […]
Source: Reily Products
Ingredients
- sifted Swans Down®️ Cake Flour
- teaspoon baking soda
- teaspoon salt
- teaspoon cinnamon
- teaspoon ground cloves
- unsalted butter
- sugar
- egg, well beaten
- dried figs, stems removed and chopped
- walnuts, toasted and chopped
- thick applesauce, heated
- Creole Butter Frosting
- tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- tablespoons strong-brewed coffee, hot
- tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- confectioners’ sugar
- teaspoon vanilla extract