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Spiced Chocolate Applesauce Cake

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Servings: 16
Categories: Cakes / Chocolate / Desserts

Ingredients:
2 1/2  cups  Flour; Unbleached, Sifted
1/2  cup  Cocoa, Baking
2  teaspoons  Baking Soda
1  teaspoon  Cinnamon, Ground
1  teaspoon  Salt
3/4  cup  Vegetable Shortening
2  cups  Sugar
2  each  Eggs, Large
1  teaspoon  Vanilla
1  cup  Applesauce
1  cup  Buttermilk
1/3  cup  , Boiling Water
    -----CHOCOLATE FLUFF FROSTING-----
2  ounces  Unsweetened Chocolate
1/2  cup  Confectioners' Sugar, Sifted
1/4  cup  Butter Or Margarine, Softened
1  teaspoon  Vanilla
2  each  Egg Whites, Large
1  cup  Confectioners' Sugar, Sifted

Directions:
Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside. Cream together the shortening and sugar in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer at medium speed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in vanilla and applesauce. Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Beat in boiling water. (Batter should be thick.) Pour batter into greased and waxed paper-lined 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree F. oven for 1 hour or until cake tests done. Cool 10 minutes in pan on rack. Remove from pan; cool on rack. When cake is cooled, spread with Chocolate Fluff Frosting. Cut in squares. CHOCOLATE FLUFF FROSTING: Melt chocolate over hot water. Cool to room temperature. Blend together confectioners' sugar, butter, melted chocolate and vanilla in a bowl and beat until smooth. In another bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form, using an electric mixer at high speed. Gradually beat in 1 c sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 T at a time, until egg white mixture is glossy and stiff. Fold in chocolate mixture into the beaten egg whites.


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