spiced chocolate applesauce cake

How To Make spiced chocolate applesauce cake

• Step 1
  Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
• Step 2
  Cream together the shortening and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer at medium speed; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Step 3
  Blend in vanilla and applesauce.
• Step 4
  Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Step 5
  Beat in boiling water - (Batter should be thick.)
• Step 6
  Pour batter into greased and waxed paper-lined 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan; bake in preheated 350 oven for 1 hour or until cake tests done.
• Step 7
  Cool 10 minutes in pan on rack.
• Step 8
  Remove from pan; cool on rack.
• Step 9
  When cake is cooled, spread with Chocolate Fluff Frosting and cut in squares.
• Step 10
  CHOCOLATE FLUFF FROSTING: Melt chocolate over hot water; cool to room temperature.
• Step 11
  Blend together confectioners' sugar, butter, melted chocolate and vanilla in a bowl and beat until smooth.
• Step 12
  In another bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form, using an electric mixer at high speed.
• Step 13
  Gradually beat in 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, until egg white mixture is glossy and stiff.
• Step 14
  Fold in chocolate mixture into the beaten egg whites.
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