This cake is sweet enough for dessert, but not too sweet to serve as a breakfast coffee cake. Thick homemade applesauce is preferable, but any applesauce will make a nice cake.
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INGREDIENTS AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE AT CULTURES FOR HEALTH
Buttermilk Starter
Buttermilk Starter
$12.99
This heirloom culture makes batch after batch of traditional cultured buttermilk right on your countertop, easy as pouring milk in a jar. Bake with your buttermilk or add it to cream to make cultured butter.
Endless® Fresh Sourdough Kit
Endless® Fresh Sourdough Kit
$40.50
This sourdough bread kit contains everything you need to get started making beautiful, tasty, artisan-style sourdough bread at home!
Instructions for using this sourdough starter can be found here.
Shipping and storage information:
Our sourdough starter is alive! To ensure your starter is as healthy as possible when it reaches you, this kit will only be shipped by priority mail. Upon checkout, priority mail will automatically be selected to ensure your sourdough arrives to you alive and healthy! Unfortunately, this requires endless sourdough products to be excluded from free shipping.
To provide you with the freshest sourdough starter, we will be shipping fresh sourdough starters weekly (each Wednesday).
For best results, open and feed within 24-48 hours of receipt.
EASY CREAM CHEESE ICING:
- 1 cup cream cheese (or one 8-ounce package)
- 2 tablespoons softened butter
- 1/4-1/3 cup honey
INSTRUCTIONS:
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Beat ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup rapadura or other whole cane sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup fresh sourdough starter
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (preferably soaked and dried)
- 1/2 cup raisins
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Prepare a 9x13-inch glass baking pan by greasing sides and bottom well.
- In a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt and spices.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar together until well mixed. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla, sourdough starter, and applesauce; mix well.
- Add flour mixture to sourdough mixture, a little at a time, until thoroughly blended. Stir in nuts and raisins. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake 45 minutes, or until top springs back when pressed lightly or toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
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Cool completely and frost with cream cheese frosting or serve plain.
