Hip Hip Hooray For Applesauce Molasses Cake!

If you are seeking an easy fall cake recipe to make for your family and friends then the recipe below is the ticket! It’s super easy to follow and when you are done preparing this work of art you’ll be left with a heavenly applesauce molasses cake that you and your family will both appreciate. I love the glaze on this cake as it is completely heavenly! Slice into a little piece of heaven with this one, folks 🙂

Check out what my friend over at Bless Us O Lord had to say about this marvelous recipe:

The taste and texture of this cake is really more like a gingerbread than apple cake. The addition of the molasses gives it the unique gingerbread flavor, and the absence of eggs keeps it dense, but very moist. I usually serve it unfrosted with a dollop of whipped cream, but since I was making one for the neighbors, I frosted it with an easy confectioner’s sugar glaze. Very yummy.

Yum! I love gingerbread cake.

Ingredients

Instructions

Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour a bundt or ring pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, spices and salt.
Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream the sugar and shortening until fluffy.
Add molasses and applesauce and mix in.
Gradually add the flour mixture and beat to moisten.
Fold in raisins, if desired.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted into middle comes out clean.
Cake will not rise to the top of the pan.
Cool for 10 minutes and remove cake from pan to wire rack.
Cool completely before glazing.

Glaze

Place melted butter in a bowl.
Add confectioner’s sugar and whisk.
Add 2 T. half and half or milk and whisk.
Add more half and half if needed and whisk until mixture
is runny enough to drizzle on cake,
but not so runny that it will run right off.

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Quick Tip: Try this recipe with pumpkin. Yum!

Thank you to Bless Us O Lord for this awesome recipe.