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Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups apple sauce
• 4 cups flour
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecan (optional)
• 1 cup of dried cranberries or raisins (optional)

Method:

• Beat butter and sugar until fluffy (about 5 minutes)
• Add the eggs and applesauce and mix well.
• Combine dry ingredients and stir into the wet mixture.
• Add optional ingredients if desired.
• Pour into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan or bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for one hour or until the cake seperates from the sides of the pan.
• Cool in pan for 30 minutes, turn onto cake rack.
• Sprinkle cake with plain icing sugar or frost with Maple Syrup Icing (recipe follows).

Maple Syrup Icing

•  4 cups of icing sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/8 cup of maple syrup
• 1 tsp of vanilla

Method:

• In bowl of stand up mixer, beat icing sugar and butter.
• Add the maple syrup and vanilla and continue beating until well blended.
• Frost the cake.

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