Chocolate-Applesauce Cake

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Title: CHOCOLATE-APPLESAUCE CAKE
Categories: Desserts, Snacks
Yield: 16 servings

2 c Unsifted Unbleached Flour
2 tb Cocoa
1 1/2 ts Baking Soda
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 c Shortening
1 1/2 c Sugar
2 lg Eggs
2 ts Vanilla Extract
2 c Unsweetened Applesauce
6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1/2 c Chopped Walnuts

This is one of the first cakes that I made in the 1970's. There is
no need to frost this one because it is sprinkled with chocolate
chips and walnuts before baking.

Yield: One 13 X 9-inch cake

Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together and set aside.
Cream the shortening and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until
light and fluffy, using an electric mixer set on medium speed. Add
the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Blend in
the vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredientss alternately with the
applesauce to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition,
using the mixer set on low speed. Pour the batter into a greased 13
X 9 X 2-inch baking pan. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips and
chopped walnuts. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 35
minutes or until the cake test done. Cool in the pan on a wire rack.

Makes 16 servings for normal people or about 8 for chocoholics.

From The Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking Book Copyright 1975

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