Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1 c unsalted butter at room temperature
1 3/4 c sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 c flour
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp baking soda
salt
1 c coarsely-chopped toasted pecans
2 c (1- 16 oz can) applesauce, room temperature
Glaze:
3 Tbsp butter
1/2 c plus 1 Tbsp brown sugar
3 Tbsp nonfat milk, cream or half and half
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Directions: |
Directions:Preheat oven to 350 º. Grease and flour sides and bottom of a 9-inch tube pan.
Heat pecans in oven until lightly toasted (2-3 minutes). Cool slightly and then coarsely chop.
In a bowl stir flour, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda and salt. Scoop out 1/2 cup.
Toss nuts with 1/2 cup flour mixture and set aside.
In electric mixer beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
Add flour to egg mixture, alternating with applesauce, beginning and ending with flour. Do not over beat.
Stir in remaining 1/2 cup flour with nuts, stirring just until flour dissolved.
Spoon batter into tube pan.
Bake 45-60 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
About 10 minutes before time for cake to be done, make the glaze. Melt butter in saucepan. Add brown sugar, stirring until dissolved. Stir in milk, bring just to a boil. Turn off heat.
When cake is done immediately spoon glaze over top while it is still in pan, Return to oven and watch closely. Bake until glaze starts to get bubbly all over the top. Remove from oven. Cool on wire rack before removing from pan. |
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