Applesauce Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

By Lv2Cook

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup chilled light butter
• 1 1/2 cups chunky applesauce
• 1/4 cup apple butter
• 2 large egg whites
• 1 large egg
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup raisins
• Cooking spray
• Cream Cheese Icing (recipe follows)
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans toasted
• CREAM CHEESE ICING
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chilled light butter
• 4 ounces 1/3-less-fat cream cheese chilled (1/2 of 8-ounce block)
• 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350º. Beat sugar and butter at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 5 minutes). Add applesauce, apple butter, egg whites, and egg; beat well. Add flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through salt); beat well. Stir in raisins.

Pour batter into a 13 × 9-inch baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350º for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.

Spread Cream Cheese Icing over cake, and sprinkle with pecans.

Serving Size: 1 slice
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To Make Cream Cheese Icing:

Beat butter and cheese at high speed of a mixer until fluffy. Add sugar; beat at low speed until well-blended. Add vanilla; beat well.

Yield: 1 cup