No Tenemos Rancho Applesauce Cake

Cookbook Category: Cakes & Frostings

This is excellent for lunch boxes or bridge clubs and everything in between. I am told that the title translates literally to "we do not have farm", which makes very little sense, but that's the title the recipe came with, and I'm sticking with it.

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 rounded teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups applesauce

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13-inch pan.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, corn starch, cocoa, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, oil, vanilla and applesauce.

Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and pour in the applesauce mixture. Blend well. Stir in the pecans and raisins.

Pour batter into the prepared pan, and bake at 350°F for 35 minutes, or until cake tester comes out clean when inserted in center of cake.

This cake is great with panocha frosting.