Applesauce Date Cake

This a wonderfull dense cake. Got the recipe from a magazine about 30 years ago. Kind of reminds me a little of a fruit cake.

Preheat oven to 350 deg.

Grease well and flour a 9-by-9-by-2 inch baking pan.

Into a large bowl of electric mixer , sift flour with baking soda , cinnamon , allspice , nutmeg , cloves , salt.

Then add eggs , sugar , butter , and 1 cup applesauce.

At low speed , beat just until ingredients are combined.

At medium speed , beat 2 minutes longer , occasionally scraping side of bowl and guiding mixture into beater with rubber scraper.

Add remaining applesauce , dates and walnuts.

Beat 1 minute.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 50 minutes , or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Let cool in pan 10 minutes.

Remove from pan.

Let cool on wire rack.

Frost with a cream-cheese frosting.

unsifted all-purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, clove, salt, eggs, light brown sugar, butter, applesauce, dates, walnuts