Spiced Chocolate Applesauce Cake

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Title: Spiced Chocolate Applesauce Cake
Categories: Cheesecakes, Chocolate
Yield: 16 servings

2 1/2 c Flour; unbleached; sifted
1/2 c Cocoa; baking
2 ts Baking soda
1 ts Cinnamon; ground
1 ts Salt
3/4 c Vegetable shortening
2 c Sugar
2 Eggs; large
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Applesauce
1 c Buttermilk
1/3 c Boiling water
Chocolate fluff frosting:
2 oz Unsweetened chocolate
1/2 c Confectioners' sugar; sifted
1/4 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
1 ts Vanilla
2 Egg whites; large
1 c Confectioners' sugar; sifted

Sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set
aside. Cream together the shortening and sugar in a mixing
bowl until light and fluffy, using an electric mixer at
medium speed. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after
each addition. Blend in vanilla and applesauce. Add dry
ingredients alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture,
beating well after each addition. Beat in boiling water.
(Batter should be thick.) Pour batter into greased and
waxed paper-lined 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan. Bake in
preheated 350 degree F. oven for 1 hour or until cake tests
done. Cool 10 minutes in pan on rack. Remove from pan; cool
on rack. When cake is cooled, spread with Chocolate Fluff
Frosting. Cut in squares.

CHOCOLATE FLUFF FROSTING: Melt chocolate over hot water.
Cool to room together confectioners' sugar, butter, melted
chocolate and vanilla in a bowl and beat until smooth. In
another bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form, using
an electric mixer at high speed. Gradually beat in 1 c
sifted confectioners' sugar, 2 T at a time, until egg white
mixture is glossy and stiff. Fold in chocolate mixture into
the beaten egg whites.

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