Pumpkin Applesauce Cake Recipes

PUMPKIN BARS WITH APPLESAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Mix pumpkin puree, sugar, oil, applesauce, and eggs together in a medium bowl until fluffy.
• Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves together in a large bowl. Add pumpkin mixture and stir until combined. Pour into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool, about 15 minutes before cutting into 24 bars.

PUMPKIN APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 9-inch parchment-lined round cake pan and set it aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the pumpkin pureé, eggs, applesauce, molasses, vanilla, and orange zest. Whisk to combine. Add the sugar, flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Whisk until just combined with no dry streaks.
• Pour into prepared cake pan and bake in preheated oven until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean, 45-55 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Once cooled, remove from the pan and finish cooling on the rack.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the egg whites, sugar, salt, and corn syrup. Set over a saucepan with barely simmering water and whisk constantly until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture reaches 160°F.
• Remove from the heat and return to the electric mixer or hand mixer. Whip on medium-high until the frosting has cooled to room temperature and holds stiff peaks, 6-8 minutes. Add the vanilla extract and whisk to incorporate.
• Pile the frosting on top of the cooled cake, the more freeform, the better. Serve immediately.

GLUTEN-FREE PUMPKIN-APPLESAUCE BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Beat eggs till fluffy in a large bowl.
• Blend in sugar, pumpkin, applesauce and oil by hand or with a mixer on low just until combined. Do not overmix!
• Add all dry ingredients, one at a time, blending together.
• Pour batter into a greased, large bundt pan and bake for 1 hour.
• Check with a toothpick/fork to make sure it's done and enjoy!

APPLESAUCE PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• Mix white sugar and applesauce together in a large bowl; stir pumpkin puree and eggs into sugar mixture until smooth. Mix baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ginger, cloves, and mace into pumpkin mixture; fold in walnuts and chocolate chips. Stir flour into pumpkin mixture until fully incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each loaf comes out clean, 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle each loaf with confectioners' sugar.