How To make Applesauce Stack Cake

Eating Raw Apple Cake in Appalachia

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Local Delights- 7 Dishes You Should Know How to Cook! (#3-Apple Stack Cake)

Learn how to make this delicious old-timey dessert. Part 3 of a 7 part series. Access instructions beginning at

Kentucky Stack Cake

Kentucky Stack Cake

Apple Filling:
2 lbs dried apples
1-2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon or apple pie spice (to taste)
1 cup sugar or sweetener of choice (Add an additional 1/2 cup dark brown sugar for a sweeter/darker filling)
4-6 cups water (You may need more. Add more as you go as needed)
Cake Layers:
1/2 c veg shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup sorghum
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups AP flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground Ginger
For the filling:
Place apples in a heavy kettle and add 4 cups water to start. On a med heat brig to a simmer. Reduce heat to med/low, cover and let cook for about 10 minutes covered. Uncover and stir. Add more water if needed. Some types apples will absorb all the water. Cover and cook for 10 minutes and repeat this until apples are tender and start to fall apart. I mash mine with a potato masher. You want the apples thick but not dry. Add the sugar and spices. stir and remove from heat. Set aside while you make the layers.
Layers:
Pre Heat oven to 350 degrees.
To the flour, add soda, ginger and salt. Mix together set aside. In a mixer, cream shortening and sugar for about 2-5 minutes. Add egg, sorghum & vanilla extract. Mix well. Turn you mixer on low and add in the flour a little at a time as you drizzle in the butter milk. Once the dough is full incoorperated turn it out onto a floured surface and form the dough into about a 10 inch log. Cut into 7 pieces. roll each piece into a round ball. Spray a 9 inch round pan with some baking spray (with flour) and press dough into the bottom of the pan evenly. Bake layers for about 10-15 minutes till lightly brown. (I bake 4 pans at a time as I have multiple 9 inch pans) let the layer cool then turn them out on a wire rack to cool. Once cool start assembling the cake. I like to use warm apple filling as it ensures the cake won't be dry. Add about 1 cup apple filling between layers ad repeat till you're out of layers. You can add apples on top or leave it off and dust with powdered sugar right before serving. Cover the cake and let it sit for 24 hours to give it time to absorb all the goodness. refrigeration is optional but my aunt Lucy kept hers out on the table for 3-4 days until it was gone. enjoy!

Kentucky Stack Cake and a Fall Fashioned

In this episode Stacey and Jessica make a Kentucky Stack Cake and a Fall Fashioned

Kentucky Stack Cake

4 cups AP flour
½ tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 t salt
¾ c shortening
1 c sugar
1 cup sorghum
3 eggs
1 c buttermilk
4 cups apple butter (with a few shots of bourbon)
2 T powdered sugar
Sift together dry ingredients.

Cream shortening and sugar.

Mix in sorghum.

Alternately add eggs and buttermilk.

Add flour gradually and mix.

Spread evenly among six greased and floured cake pans.

Bake 15 minutes in a 350 degree oven or until golden.

Cool layers. Add apple butter between layers, leaving top naked. Dust with powdered sugar.

Fall Fashioned

1 peeled fresh apple slice
3 dashes black walnut bitters
½ ounce brown sugar simple syrup
2 ounces Apple cinnamon infused Bourbon – (fill mason jar ¾ full with dried apples, add two cinnamon sticks, fill with bourbon and let sit 4-14 days)
Muddle the apple, bitters and simple syrup in the bottom of a rocks glass. Add the bourbon and a large ice cube. Stir to chill and garnish with a cinnamon stick and apple slice.

Food with Fred: Dried Apple Stack Cake

Food with Fred: Dried Apple Stack Cake

Old-Fashioned Appalachian Stack Cake with Dried Apple Filling

Old Fashioned Stack Cake:
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup molasses
1/4 tsp soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cloves
3/4 tsp allspice
3/4 tsp cinnamon
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder

cream butter and sugar together and mix well
add eggs and molasses and mix well.
add soda to buttermilk and mix into butter and sugar mixture
Add alternately with milk and butter beginning and ending with dry ingredients
bake in 6 or more thin layers
at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes

Filling:
1 1/2 lbs of dried apples
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 1/2 cups of water
1/2 tsp each : nutmeg, allspice, and cloves
1 tsp cinnamon

cook first three ingredients together and when almost done add in last 4 ingredients.
put into food processor and blend
let cool
spread between layers of cake
place plastic wrap all over cake and place in refrigerator for at least 24 hours


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