Applesauce Spice Cake With Brown Sugar Icing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Cake
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
1/3 cup buttermilk
Icing
1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tablespoons corn syrup
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted

Preparation

For the cake, grease a 9\" x 13\" cake pan; line the bottom with parchment paper.
Set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the butter with the brown sugar until fluffy; beat in the eggs, one at a time.
Beat in the vanilla.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and nutmeg.
Stir into the butter mixture alternately with the applesauce and buttermilk, making 3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet.
Spread in the prepared pan.
Bake in the centre of a 350 degree F oven until the cake tester inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
Let cool in the pan on a rack.
For the icing, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
Add the brown sugar and corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Boil just until blended, about 1 minute.
Remove from the heat.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the milk and vanilla into the butter mixture.
Again using a wooden spoon, beat in the icing sugar until smooth and spreadable; let cool for 1 minute.
Spread over the top of the cake just to the edge, letting the icing drizzle over slightly.