Applesauce Date Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon clove
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 cup soft butter or 1/2 cup margarine
2 cups hot applesauce
1 cup chopped dates
3/4 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Grease well and flour a 9-by-9-by-2 inch baking pan.
Into a large bowl of electric mixer, sift flour with baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, salt.
Then add eggs, sugar, butter, and 1 cup applesauce; at low speed, beat just until ingredients are combined.
At medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping side of bowl and guiding mixture into beater with rubber scraper.
Add remaining applesauce, dates and walnuts; beat 1 minute.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake 50 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
Let cool in pan 10 minutes.
Remove from pan.
Let cool on wire rack.
Frost with a Cream-Cheese frosting.