Praline Applesauce Cake

• 2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour, or all purpose
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 lb applesauce, or 1 3/4 cups
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups seedless raisins
• Praline Topping
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
• 2/3 cup flaked coconut
• powdered sugar, for decoration optional

1. Grease a baking pan, 13x9x2; dust lightly with flour, tapping out any excess.
2. Sift cake flour, sugar, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves, and salt into a large bowl.
3. Add shortening and applesauce; beat, scrapping down side of bowl often, 2 minutes at medium speed with an electric beater.
4. Add eggs; beat 2 minutes longer, or until blended; fold in raisins. Pour into prepared pan.
5. Bake in moderate oven 350* for 35 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly pressed with fingertip. Remove from oven; cool in pan on a wire rack 15 minutes. Raise oven temperature to BROIL.
6. Make Prailine Topping; spread enenly over warm cake.
7. Broil, 6 inches from heat, 3 to 4 minutes, or until topping bubbles up and turns golden. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into squares.
8. Praline Topping:.
9. Cream butter with brown sugar until fluffy-light in a medium-size bowl; beat in cream until smooth, then stir in chopped pecans and coconut.
10. Note:.
11. To decorate cake, lay several inch-wider strips of wax paper diagonally across top of cooled cake; hold in place with wooden picks. Sieve powdered sugar generously over cake, then carefully lift off paper strips.

cake flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, salt, vegetable shortening, applesauce, eggs, raisins, topping, butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, pecans, flaked coconut, powdered sugar

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/praline-applesauce-cake-385429 (may not work)