Food & Cooking Recipes Dessert & Treats Recipes Applesauce Spice Cake 3.7 (21) Add your rating & review By Martha Stewart Test Kitchen Martha Stewart Test Kitchen The recipes developed by our test kitchen team have undergone a rigorous process of development and testing, ensuring that every element is optimal, from ingredient amounts to method and cooking time. This process includes triple-testing recipes to ensure they meet our high standards. The many stellar cooks and food editors who have been part of our team include Sarah Carey, Lucinda Scala Quinn, Jennifer Aaronson, Shira Bocar, Anna Kovel, Greg Lofts, Riley Wofford, Lauren Tyrell, and Lindsay Leopold. Editorial Guidelines Updated on September 28, 2016 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Servings: 12 This recipe for applesauce spice cake is from "Entertaining," by Martha Stewart. Ingredients ½ cup unsalted butter 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 ¾ cups cake flour 1 cup raisins 1 cup currants 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1 cup thick applesauce, heated Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a tube pan (Martha likes to use a gugelhupf mold). Cream butter with sugar. Add egg and beat well. Sift a bit of flour over the raisins, currants, and walnuts. (This prevents sinkage during baking.) Sift remaining flour with other dry ingredients. Beat into butter mixture, then stir in applesauce, and finally raisins, currants, and nuts. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for approximately 40 minutes. Remove from oven, cool in pan 5 minutes, and turn out onto rack to cool completely. Rate it Print