This old school apple stack cake is a traditional for a cause. Many individuals make it throughout the vacation season. We make it with apple butter, however it’s additionally been recognized to be made with dried apples.
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❤️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 should be excellent! This is able to be an excellent 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 practice they’ve handed down via 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 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 will be made a couple of days prematurely. 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 under.
⭐TIP
This can be a cake that wants time to relaxation so you’ll undoubtedly need to make it prematurely. It’s excellent for the vacation season as a result of it will get higher with time. Make this one 3 days earlier than and you should 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 depend upon how you narrow the cake.
Appalachian Apple Stack Cake
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.
- 1 cup shortening I used crisco
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1 cup molasses I used sorghum, can use any variety
- 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.
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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 components and blend.
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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 possibly can unfold thicker if you need thicker layers.
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Bake layers in a preheated 400 diploma oven 12 to fifteen minutes till facilities take a look at finished. Let every layer cool on a plate. Subsequent 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 photographs. I had about 3 further layers and made a small cake for my son-in-law who loves apples. You possibly can use applesauce or dried apples as an alternative of apple butter.
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