Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Icing #Recipe Peg Cochran/Margaret Loudon

 

If everyone is sad because the Thanksgiving pies are all eaten, whip up this spice cake from Sally's Baking Addiction.  It's quick and easy and has all the warm spices we enjoy in pumpkin pies.  

CAKE

2 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp ground cloves

1 cup vegetable oil

1 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract 

1 cup shredded apple (can substitute shredded carrot or zucchini

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

8 ounces full-fat brick cream cheese, softened to room temperature

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

3 cups confectioner sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 tsp salt

CAKE

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch pan

Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices in a bowl

Whisk oil, brown sugar, oil applesauce, eggs and vanilla in a separate bowl

Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix well.

 

 Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes

Cool cake on a wire rack.

 

FROSTING 

In a large bowl with a handheld mixer or stand mixer fitted with whisk or paddle, beat the cream cheese and butter at high speed until smooth and creamy.   

Add confectioner's sugar, vanilla and salt and beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Switch to high speed and beat for 2 minutes.

 

Spread on completely cooled cake.

 

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Weddings are murder in the new Cranberry Cove Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Peg Cochran!

The cranberry bogs at Sassamanash Farms have never looked more festive than when Monica’s half-brother celebrates his wedding there. It’s a genuinely joyous occasion, and even greeting a strange assortment of guests and witnessing a heated argument can’t spoil Monica’s mood. But that all changes when one of the guests is found murdered at the reception—and then one of Monica’s employees is accused of doing the deed to get his hands on the dead woman’s money.

It doesn’t take long for Monica to discover that the victim had amassed her fortune by marrying a very wealthy—and very ill—older man. What’s more, the old man’s daughters despised the scheming, gold-digging woman, and thought the inheritance money should have been theirs. That seems like motive enough for murder, but Monica suspects there’s more to this case than simple greed. With her employee in hot water and time running out, Monica will have to act fast to catch the killer, before a case that started with a family wedding ends with her own funeral . ..

 

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