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Old Fashioned Stack Cake Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 12 minutes Total Time: 42 minutes Print Ingredients For the Cake-This recipe is enough for 6 layers: 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/3 cup molasses 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Old Fashioned Stack Cake| With SIX spicy cake layers (more like a gingerbread cookie) and homemade apple butter this cake is sure to be your families new favorite Fall cake. This cake comes with a little history. Since cakes were so expensive back in the days of old.
This Apple Stack Cake Recipe is almost like an Applesauce Cake recipe. It’s from an old-fashioned stack cake recipe that uses sorghum molasses in the batter and it’s frosted with a spiced applesauce mixture. Some believe it’s an Appalachian Apple Stack Cake recipe that’s been passed down over the years.
It is said that the number of layers in a cake was a measure of the popularity of the hosting family. Sometimes there would be as many as twelve layers! I love the history behind this cake. I had never heard of a “Stack Cake”. Here is a little history behind the “Stack Cake”. Because cakes were so expensive back in the days of old.
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