Apple Spice Visiting Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• Butter and flour for the pan
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 2 large eggs

  at room temperature
• 1/2 cup half and half or heavy cream

  at room temperature
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 6 tablespoons butter

  melted and cooled

Instructions

• 1 Center a rack in the oven, and preheat it to 350. Butter an 8 1/2-inch loaf pan
  and dust with flour. Tap out the excess and set aside.
• 2 Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, and salt.
• 3 In a separate bowl, whisk together the sugar and eggs until light and frothy.
  Then whisk in the cream and applesauce. Still using the whisk, gently mix the
  dry ingredients into the egg batter. Stir the vanilla into the melted butter,
  and then gradually mix it into the cake batter. Transfer the batter into the
  prepared loaf pan.
• 4 Bake for 70 to 75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted deep into the center of
  the cake comes out clean. If the cake begins getting dark too quickly, tent it
  loosely with foil as it bakes. Once baked, transfer the cake to a rack and let
  it rest for 5 minutes. Carefully run a blunt knife between the sides of the cake
  and the pan before inverting it onto a cooling rack. Glaze the cake while it's
  warm or cool to room temperature before slicing.
• 5 When the cake is completely cool, wrap to store at room temperature.

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