Applesauce Snack Cake
Description
This applesauce snack cake recipe is moist and fluffy with natural apple flavor. This applesauce snack cake has warm cinnamon and fresh applesauce combination. You can enjoy this delicious cake at breakfast, as a snack or a dessert.
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Make aluminum foil sling for 8 inch square metal baking pan. Spray foil lightly with vegetable oil spray.
- In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- In large bowl, whisk sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg until well combined. Transfer 2 tablespoons sugar-spice mixture to small bowl and reserve for sprinkling.
- Add applesauce, melted butter, cider, egg and vanilla to large bowl with sugar-spice mixture and whisk until well combined.
- Add flour mixture to applesauce mixture and whisk to combine. Use rubber spatula to scrape batter into greased baking pan and smooth top. Sprinkle reserved sugar-spice mixture evenly over batter.
- Place baking pan in oven. Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes.
- Use oven mitts to remove baking pan from oven. Place baking pan on cooling rack and let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes.
- Use foil to carefully lift cake out of baking pan and place on cooling rack. Let cake cool for at least 30 minutes before serving. transfer the cake to cutting board and discard foil. Cut into pieces and serve.
