Olivia's Applesauce Cake
1 cup butter |
3 1/2 cups flour (sifted) |
Sift together: Flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Take 1/2 cup of flour mixture and stir into the nuts and raisins. Set both aside. Cream butter until whipped soft. Add sugar a little at a time until mixture is smooth. Beat in eggs vigorously. Alternately stir in flour mixture and applesauce. When all mixed together, add nuts and raisins and mix well. Pour batter into a well-greased cake mold. Bake in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for one hour. Cool ten minutes, then turn out on cake rack. Frost with Whiskey Frosting when Cake is cool. |
Jane's Whiskey Frosting
| 1/4 cup butter 1 tablespoon cream Pinch of salt |
2 cups powdered sugar 2 tablespoons bourbon |
| Cream Butter, add sugar and salt, then cream and whiskey. Whip until smooth. Frost cake. Decorate with a sprig of holly. |