Apple Stack Cake A Slice of Nostalgia
Most folks will think this is a cake gone wrong, but there are a few of us who grew up with our grandmothers making them. Apple Stack Cake. This was my first, and probably last, time I’ll make one.
As I cooked the apples that were cored, peeled, and dried by my 92-year-old Aunt Clota, I thought that I’d love to have a dime for every apple she has dried with those hardworking hands over her lifetime. As I made the twelve thin cake layers, I thought about the last time I tasted an apple stack cake when I was a young girl. My Granny Stewart made them. I remember it took a long time to make one (as I found out today), and I realized she must have really loved us to go through all the trouble.
The ingredients are simple, but the love and memories in this cake run deep. I was so proud once I got it all together, and it is really good!
Recipe: Apple Stack Cake
Favorite Recipe from: Grandma Mabel Fulcher
Ingredients:
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup shortening
- ⅓ cup molasses (sulfur-less)
- 1 egg
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Cream together the shortening and sugar.
- Add the egg, molasses, buttermilk, and mix well.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices. Add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
- Add vanilla.
- This will make a dough. Roll it out like pastry and cut to fit a 9-inch cake pan.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
To Assemble:
- When the layers are cooled, stack them with cooked, seasoned, and spiced old-fashioned dried apples.
