*Update* Recipes now follow the post.Recently, I made applesauce. This due to a surplus of apples from our trees this year. Lots and lots of applesauce. I used some for applesauce cupcakes with caramel frosting. The recipes for both the cupcakes and the frosting came from my mom's Fannie Farmer cookbook. The 1951 edition.Too bad I didn't have the right decorative doo-dads to top them off. People around here didn't seem to mind.
Applesauce Cake/Cupcakes
(Calls for 1/2 c. shortening-ack.) *I use unsalted butter*
1 c. brown sugar
1 cup cold, unsweetened applesauce
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. powdered cloves
Cream butter; beat in sugar gradually. Add applesauce. Add flour sifted with soda, salt, and spices. Spread in 2 buttered and floured 9-in. pans. (Or a linedmuffin tin) Bake 40 minutes at 350.
(Makes about 12 cupcakes)
Caramel Frosting
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. milk
1 3/4 c. confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Melt butter in small pan, add brown sugar, and cook until sugar melts. Add milk. Cool and beat in confectioners' sugar until thick enough to spread. Add vanilla.
5 comments:
please send me or post the recipe!
i have heard of using applesauce for the moisture and less oil. is that what this recipe did? sounds delicious.
we were in mendocino in september. beautiful place. lucky you! (but we love the pacific nw, too, and it would be hard giving up the emerald landscapes here!)
Ooh, those look great!
Oh lookit Miz UV acting all innocent. Can't you see she is just trying to suck you into being one of her cupcake minions?
Seriously, I remember my sister making applesauce bread and that it was very nummy. Caramel frosting - genius!
YUMMMMMMMY!!!
oh yummmm...what a photo - and the one of grey kitty, too...new camera?...you've been getting some great shots lately...
~ n
xoxox
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