Easy Kid Cake Recipes

Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
½ cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup chopped dates

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400F.  Grease 2 mini muffin tins (if you don’t have mini muffin tins use one standard size muffin tin).  In a large bowl lightly beat the eggs.  Mix in the sugar.  In a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt and add the dry mixture to egg/sugar mixture.  Gently fold in the chopped walnuts and dates.  Spoon batter into each muffin cup and bake for approximately 10 minutes (15 for large muffins).  Turn onto a wire rack to cool through.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 cups apple sauce
3 cups sifted all-purpose unbleached flour
1 ¾ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup seedless raisins
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease a medium sized baking pan and lightly sprinkle with flour.  Set aside.  Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl.  Add the applesauce (make sure it’s cold) and 2 ¾ cups flour.  Mix well.  Fold in the raisins, remaining flour and vanilla extract.  Mix well and poured into greased baking pan.  Bake approximately 1 to 1 hour and 15 minutes until golden and baked through.  Let cool for 5 minutes then remove to wire rack to cool completely.

* Note:  You can also add 1 cup chopped walnuts to this bread when you fold in the raisins!