Spiced Baby Food Cake
This is a great way of using up leftover baby food. It's used to flavour this incredibly moist cake with cinnamon, cloves and walnuts.
Ingredients
Serves: 14
- 300g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 175ml vegetable oil
- 2 (120g) jars plum baby food
- 250g plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 115g chopped walnuts
- 4 tablespoons apple sauce
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:55min
- Preheat oven to 170 C / Gas 3. Grease and flour a 26cm tube cake tin. Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs and oil. Beat until smooth. Mix in baby food and nuts. Beat in flour mixture alternately with apple sauce. Pour batter in prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(10)
Reviews in English (8)
This recipe is great! I usually use one vanilla custard and one pear babyfood jars. The custard keeps it really moist, similar to what yogurt would do. Not very sweet so I drizzled lightly with a powdered sugar icing. Last time I tossed in some chopped pecans for added texture. People at work rave about it! - 28 Dec 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Delicious cake - recipe similar to one from my childhood. Baked it at 350 degrees b/c & thought the posted temp was a typo. I couldn't find plum baby food, so I substituted prune - worked great! I used 1/2 cup applesauce b/c that's what it came in (individual serving size) and reduced the oil to 1/2 cup. Also used pecans b/c my husband's allergic to walnuts. Very moist. - 25 Apr 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I cooked it at 350 (by mistake) and it took 55 minutes. I used mixed fruit and prune baby foods, because that was what I had. This is a quick work-day dessert that goes together quickly and can bake during dinner or dinner prep. I suspect any fruit baby food would work. The texture was okay (not as dense as I expected) and the fruit made it moist. Great with whipped cream, ice cream, or a drizzle of icing. Frosting would be too much, IMO. This is quite a sweet cake. Next time I will reduce the sugar by at least half, but I will certainly be making it again. Once we no longer keep baby food in the pantry, I'll sub frozen fruit (thawed) with a splash of water and run through the food processor or blender...or just increase the applesauce. Thanks for the recipe. - 15 Jan 2013 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)