Moist Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 2¼ cups flour (regular, all purpose (see note 1 if you want to use cake flour))
• ¼ cup cornstarch (also known as cornflour)
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 2½ tsp cinnamon (ground (see note 4 about this cakes 'spice' level))
• 1¾ tsp ginger (ground, powdered)
• ½ tsp cloves (ground)
• ½ tsp nutmeg (ground)
• 1½ cups soft brown sugar (firmly packed (see note 2))
• 3 large eggs (room temperature)
• 1 cup unflavoured vegetable oil (I use canola)
• 1 cup unsweetened applesauce (or apple puree)
• 2 tsp vanilla essence/extract
• ½ cup Greek yoghurt (room temperature, full-fat)
• 1 batch of my cream cheese buttercream frosting recipe