Applesauce Cake

Photo from Mom's blog

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

2 cups applesauce

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons nutmeg

2 teaspoons cinnamon

4-5 tablespoons cocoa

3 and 1/2 cups flour

1 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 cup whole walnuts

Cream sugar and shortening. Add soda to applesauce and let sit 5 minutes. Add to sugar and shortening, mix. Sift dry ingredients together, add to wet mixture and mix well. Add chopped walnuts. Grease and flour a bunt pan, sprinkle 1/2 cup whole walnuts in the pan, then add batter. Bake 1 hout at 350. Let cool, and enjoy!

This cake has so many fun memories! You can only make it as Christmas time. My Grandma Peterson would make this for my Mom when she was growing up, and my Mom would make it for us every Christmas. I think it is best when it's right out of the oven with a big glass of cold milk.