Rum Applesauce Cake – Oracibo

Ingredients

• 6 large cooking apples (about 3 lbs.)
• 1 lemon
• ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar
• 3 Tbsp. dark rum
• 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
• 1 ¼ cups rum applesauce
• ½ cup walnut halves, (2 oz.)
• ½ cup raisins, (3 ½ oz.)
• ½ cup currants, (3 oz.), rinsed & blotted dry
• 1 ½ cups unbleached flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
• ½ tsp. ground cloves
• ¼ lb. softened salted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 6 Tbsp. room temperature butter
• 2 cups icing sugar
• 2 ½ Tbsp. or more, milk or cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 tsp. dark rum, or to your taste