APPALACHIAN APPLE STACK CAKE – The Southern Girl Cooks

This old school apple stack cake is a basic for a cause. Many individuals make it in the course of the vacation season. We make it with apple butter, however it’s additionally been recognized to be made with dried apples.

If you’re a fan of quaint muffins it would be best to do that Southern Jam Cake. It’s a beautiful cake and has been in our household for over 100 years. We now have it each Christmas and it’s one in every of our favourite traditions.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

This apple stack cake is a bit of time-consuming, however it’s a beautiful cake. The toughest half is making the layers, and so they don’t must be good! This may be an amazing cake so as to add to your vacation and to get pleasure from making with household. I do know a household that makes it yearly, and it’s a convention 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 ultimately, 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 propose to make. We made 7 layers for this cake, and it was superb. This cake must relaxation and may be made just a few days upfront. The longer the apple butter can soak into the layers, the higher this cake will probably 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

It is a cake that wants time to relaxation so you’ll positively need to make it upfront. 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 best way.

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STORING & SERVING SIZE

We retailer this in an hermetic container and it makes about 14 servings. It’s gonna rely upon 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

Prepare 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 type
• 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 prime.

• 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 substances and blend.

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

• Bake layers in a preheated 400 diploma oven 12 to fifteen minutes till facilities take a look at achieved. Let every layer cool on a plate. Subsequent cowl every layer with apple butter as you stack them. This makes about 5 layers. If you need extra layers double the recipe. You’ll be able to sprinkle powdered sugar on prime of cake.

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

Key phrase Appalachian Apple Stack Cake, Apple Stack Cake

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