Ginger-Cardamom Applesauce Snack Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2006

Desserts or Baked Goods
Fruit
Fruit Desserts
Cakes
    

Applesauce cakes run the gamut from dense, chunky fruitcakes to gummy 'health' cakes that don't taste like much. How about an applesauce cake that tastes like apples?

SERVESMakes one 8-inch square cake

TIME1½ hours, plus 2½ hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a moist and tender applesauce cake recipe that actually tasted like its namesake, we found that apple cider, reduced to a syrup, contributed a pleasing sweetness and a slight tang without excess moisture. Plumping dried apples in the ci...

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