Paying heed to my sweet tooth, I have been going through our various cookbooks looking for a slightly healthy recipe. Sweets and healthy usually don't coincide, but I gave it a try with an applesauce based recipe for Spice Cake from the old Joy of Cooking, one of the staples for every household cookbook collection. Since my body doesn't let me enjoy eggs, this applesauce recipe works wonderfully - instead of an egg just add another tsp of baking powder.

This is definately a spice cake with cloves and cinnamon - I think a good cinnamon really turns this cake into something wonderful (we like to use Penzy's). The first time I made it, I wanted a bit of color- so I added about 1/4 cup of jimmies (called sprinkles for the southerners) and it really made the cakes beautiful with a confetti of color, although there was a bit of a stale taste from using old jimmies. The second time I added dried currents and mini baking m&m's; I think that was a bit much, next time I will add one or the other. But what ever you do, you really can't go wrong with this flavorful cake (My fav. is to cook them in mini-bunt pans, Mark got me the loveliest mini-flower-bunts for christmas, we enjoy one every night!)