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      Title: CHOCOLATE-APPLESAUCE CAKE
 Categories: Desserts, Snacks
      Yield: 16 servings
 
      2 c  Unsifted Unbleached Flour
      2 tb Cocoa
  1 1/2 ts Baking Soda
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Shortening
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
      2 lg Eggs
      2 ts Vanilla Extract
      2 c  Unsweetened Applesauce
      6 oz Semisweet Chocolate Chips
    1/2 c  Chopped Walnuts
 
  This is one of the first cakes that I made in the 1970's.  There is
  no need to frost this one because it is sprinkled with chocolate
  chips and walnuts before baking.
  
  Yield: One 13 X 9-inch cake
  
  Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt together and set aside.
  Cream the shortening and sugar together in a large mixing bowl until
  light and fluffy, using an electric mixer set on medium speed.  Add
  the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.  Blend in
  the vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredientss alternately with the
  applesauce to the creamed mixture, beating well after each addition,
  using the mixer set on low speed.  Pour the batter into a greased 13
  X 9 X 2-inch baking pan. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips and
  chopped walnuts. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 35
  minutes or until the cake test done. Cool in the pan on a wire rack.
  
  Makes 16 servings for normal people or about 8 for chocoholics.
  
  From The Farm Journal's Complete Home Baking Book Copyright 1975
 
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