Applesauce Ambrosia Cake
From midgelet 14 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 20
I don't call this a fruitcake although made with candied fruit! When my kids were small they hated any fruit cake because of the sticky candied fruit and peel that was used in making the cakes. Hubby and I love fruit cake. Read more So I had to compromise and make something the kids would love and not associate as a typical fruit cake. Thus this recipe was born. Its a basic pound cake recipe with finely chopped candied fruit, peel, and nuts and raisins.However not your typical poundcake texture . You'll have to try it to see what I mean. Its a good keeper and very moist and freezes well. Let flavors mellow overnight before cutting. It's great plain and one may dust with powdered sugar instead of the icing. It's also a great way to use leftovers such as applesauce, candied fruit, nuts and raisins and great for the new year too To achieve the proper texture the kids likes, I had to place the candied peel in my food processor and chop it up almost to the point where it turned into a paste but still kept the colors and much smaller pieces of fruit and peel. I do hope you enjoy this! See less
Ingredients
- Bowl 1: shopping list
- 2 cups plain applesauce shopping list
- 1 cup raisins ( dark ) shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts ( walnuts ) shopping list
- 1 container candied fruit and peel , 16 oz ( see directions ) shopping list
- Bowl number 2: shopping list
- 3 cups flour shopping list
- 1 tsp baking soda shopping list
- 2 tsp baking powder shopping list
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg shopping list
- Bowl 3 shopping list
- 2 sticks softened butter shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup full fat plain yoghurt or sour cream shopping list
- 2 tsp vanilla shopping list
- Icing: optional shopping list
- 1/2 stick butter softened shopping list
- '1 1/2 cup powder sugar or as needed shopping list
- 1 tbs cream shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla or tuitti fruiti extract shopping list
- coarse white sugar crstals shopping list
How to make it
- Note: preparation is atypical for this delcious cake!
- Use the metal blade in heavy duty food processor and pulse on and off to chop the fruit into smaller pieces.
- Do not over pulse or the fruit will turn to a paste!
- Place the chopped fruit in a bowl with the applesauce, nuts and raisins and set aside
- Bowl 2:
- Cream butter smooth and then cream in sugar till fluffy.
- Blend in the eggs and then the yoghurt, stir in the vanilla
- Bowl 3:
- sift the flour, baking powder and baking soda and nutmeg into a bowl
- Place all of the dry mixture into the creamed mixture.
- Add the fruit-applesauce mixture into the bowl
- With electric mixer slowly mix everything together until the mixture is well blended
- Place this mixture into a greased and floured tube pan lined with papered baking circle and grease paper.
- Bake 350F middle rack about 70 to 90 minutes or until cake tests done with a toohpick.
- Remove cake to rack to cool
- After 15 minutes, carefully invert to remove cake and then reinvert and cool completely
- When cool, wrap overnight to mellow flavors or freeze
- Frost or dust with powdered sugar on cooled cake
- Mix frosting inegrdients if desired and frost top of cak
- then sprinkle top with coarse crytal sugar if desired
cut piece of cake
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my kinda fruit cake I agree with your kids{great post} high5
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you really amaze me with your creations.I too like your kids dislike fruitcake but this looks wonderful!
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