Easy Spice Cake
This cake fills the kitchen with the spices of fall and on a crisp day there is nothing better than a slice of this cake with a cup of warm tea.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- ⅔ cup canola oil
- ⅓ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Butter and flour a 9" x 5" loaf pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugars, oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla extract to blend.
- Add the dry ingredients and stir until just blended.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.
- Bake 350° for 45 minutes or until wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the cake for 10 minutes.
- Turn onto wire rack and cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Notes
This recipe is from one of my favorite cookbook authors, Giada De Laurentis.