APPALACHIAN APPLE STACK CAKE – The Southern Girl Cooks

This old style apple stack cake is a basic for a motive. Many individuals make it through the vacation season. We make it with apple butter, however it’s additionally been identified to be made with dried apples.

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❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

This apple stack cake is slightly time-consuming, however it’s a beautiful cake. The toughest half is making the layers, they usually don’t need to be good! This could be an ideal cake so as to add to your vacation and to take pleasure in making with household. I do know a household that makes it yearly, and it’s a practice they’ve handed down by means of the generations.

HISTORY OF THE APPALACHIAN APPLE STACK CAKE

Appalachian folklore says this cake was a celebration cake, typically for weddings. It was initially made with lard, however finally, with the creation of shortening, that modified and in addition made the shelf-life for much longer. Many individuals make this cake with dried apples, however it has additionally been made with apple butter. We selected to make use of apple butter because it appears to be what most individuals have readily available or can discover on the grocery retailer.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

Making the layers for this cake takes the longest, as does deciding on what number of layers you intend to make. We made 7 layers for this cake, and it was superb. This cake must relaxation and may be made a number of days prematurely. The longer the apple butter can soak into the layers, the higher this cake shall be.

We doubled our recipe to make this cake. The unique recipe makes a 5-layer cake, however we doubled it to make a 7-layer cake after which made a separate cake of three layers.

Printable recipe in recipe card beneath.

⭐TIP

This can be a cake that wants time to relaxation so you’ll undoubtedly need to make it prematurely. It’s good for the vacation season as a result of it will get higher with time. Make this one 3 days earlier than and you’ll have dessert out of the way in which.

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STORING & SERVING SIZE

We retailer this in an hermetic container and it makes about 14 servings. It’s gonna rely on how you chop the cake.

Appalachian Apple Stack Cake

Judy Yeager

This Appalachian Apple Stack Cake is an quaint recipe that your loved ones will love. It is a layer cake with apple butter or dried apples between the layers.

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes minutes

Whole Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes minutes

Course Cake, Dessert

Delicacies American

• 1 cup shortening I used crisco
• 1 cup white granulated sugar
• 1 cup molasses I used sorghum, can use any form
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 3 eggs
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice
• 2 to 2 1/2 cups apple butter
• Powdered sugar for sprinkling on high.

• Mix shortening, sugar, molasses, buttermilk and eggs in a bowl. Combine with mixer. Whisk collectively flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice in one other bowl. Mix the moist and dry elements and blend.

• I used 10 inch spherical cake pans (you would use 8 or 9 inch). Spray your pans with cooking spray every time. Unfold a layer of batter in your pans. I used a daily kitchen knife and unfold it like you’re spreading frosting. Unfold the batter about an inch thick. You possibly can unfold thicker if you’d like thicker layers.

• Bake layers in a preheated 400 diploma oven 12 to fifteen minutes till facilities take a look at performed. Cowl every layer with apple butter as you stack them. This makes about 5 layers. In order for you extra layers double the recipe. You possibly can sprinkle powdered sugar on high of cake.

I doubled the recipe for the cake within the images. I had about 3 further layers and made a small cake for my son-in-law who loves apples. You can use applesauce or dried apples as an alternative of apple butter.

Key phrase Appalachian Apple Stack Cake, Apple Stack Cake

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