Apple 'n Spice Cake with Caramel Glaze

Yield: 12 servings (serving size: 1 wedge)

Ingredients

• 2  cups  all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon  baking soda
• 1  teaspoon  ground cinnamon
• 1/4  teaspoon  ground nutmeg
• 1/8  teaspoon  salt
• 1/2  cup  applesauce
• 1  tablespoon  vegetable oil
• 2  teaspoons  vanilla extract
• 2  large eggs
• 1  cup  sugar
• 1  cup  golden raisins
• 1  (20-ounce) can light apple pie filling
• Cooking spray
• 1/4  cup  fat-free caramel-flavored sundae syrup

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325°.

Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine the flour and next 4 ingredients (flour through salt) in a small bowl, and set aside. Combine the applesauce, oil, and vanilla in a bowl, and set aside. Place eggs in a large bowl, and beat at medium speed of a mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well. Add flour mixture and applesauce mixture alternately to egg mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat well after each addition. Fold in raisins and pie filling.

Spoon cake batter into a 10-inch tube pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan; cool completely on a wire rack. Drizzle syrup over top of cooled cake.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

266 (8% from fat)

Fat:

2.4g (sat 0.5g,mono 0.7g,poly 0.8g)

Protein:

3.7g

Carbohydrate:

65.5g

Fiber:

2.1g

Cholesterol:

36mg

Iron:

1.5mg

Sodium:

160mg

Calcium:

40mg