4 chocolate applesauce cake with glaze Recipes

unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan, superfine sugar, eggs, unsweetened applesauce, preferably homemade style, all-purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, salt, bittersweet chocolate , cut into 1/2-inch pieces, pure vanilla extract, tb confectioners sugar, tb calvados or brandy (optional), cider glaze (optional, recipe follows)

butter, softened, sugar, eggs, unsweetened applesauce, vanilla extract, king arthur unbleached all-purpose flour, baking cocoa, baking powder, salt, ground cinnamon, baking soda, fat-free milk, shredded zucchini, chopped walnuts, grated orange peel, sugar, orange juice, vanilla extract

white cake mix (regular size), water, egg whites, unsweetened applesauce, fresh raspberries, divided, sugar, baking cocoa, fat-free milk, semisweet chocolate, chopped