A recipe for this has been in my family for over 100 years. The way we make it are thin crepe like pancake layers with a little sugar and spice in them with layers of homemade apple butter in between them. I'm from Southeast Kentucky
My granny (she was everybodies granny) made some really good stack cakes. She had an apple tree and dried her own apples (usually on visitors cars on a piece of cloth). As I remember she cooked the apples down to a consistency of apple butter, and she also used apple butter sometimes. The cakes were made with brown sugar, blackstrap molasses, enough ginger power and black pepper to make them hot, along with other spices, and of course whatever it took to make the dough. I wish I could go back in time and eat one with her again. She's been gone a long time, born in 1904, but my dear departed aunt Vera could cook pretty much everything granny cooked, I lost her a week ago too. Most of my moms' family (including mom a couple years ago are gone now. You can't imagine how much I miss them. Both of my parents came from huge families. I wish Mama Moore and granny could have had a stack cake challenge, that would sure have been fun to judge.
My mother made this during the Christmas holidays. She made a basic sugar cookie dough and used a large dinner plate for her cut out and she also used the dried apples because that's the only recipe that she had. She would cover the cake with cotton dish towels and let it sit for 2 days. It drove us kids crazy waiting until we could eat it. It was so large and very sweet that a very thin slice was plenty. When my mother passed my brother took ALL of her recipes and old cook books. This is the first recipe that I've seen for this so THANK YOU!!!!! I can't wait to make this.
My Mom and Grandmas made this now I am teaching my one granddaughter to make this. We do 6 layers and 2 quarts of apple butter.. this is for Christmas and I use an 10 oz. iron skillet to bake the layers in.
Don’t remember if I shared this before or not. I was born raised in Ohio, but spent my summers with my kin in north East Tennessee and southwest Virginia. My aunt Juanita decided she wanted to teach me how to make an apple stack cake. No matter how much we tried, the layers kept sliding off! We ended up have a 3 layer apple cake for each person for supper.
My 89 year old grandma made this when she was young, to save on space she used AP flour with no risers added and it still made nice cake layers with apple butter, but she also made apple twinkles, put a layer of twinkies down and top with applesauce and repeat its so delicious 😊
I am Verneda Moore.My mom fixed her Old Fashion Stack Cake with cooked apples and she would cook the apples down and then put all the spices in and spread between each layer.And was 9 high.set in frig for 2 days.Before we ate it.Best Stack cake i ever eat
Sherri Himes wow my grandmother was also from Johnson county. I waited all winter so I could go stay with her in the summer. As soon I went through the door she had apple stack waiting. Nobody made it better.
I have watched my grandmother make this when i was 5 years old. My mother made her recipe. Both put spices in them. My grandmother past away when i was 7 at the age of 87. That was years ago.
Oh this lady is mesmerising! Shes so genuinely upbeat & cheerful. The recipes are good old time food to comfort & fill you up, made wth love & care so you feel you are standing right there beside her ( oh yes shes Petara isn't she? ) watching her cook wth yr tongue watering, waiting to sample th goodies shes made. Im a fan already 😄
Oh thanks so much for this recipe. My grandmother was from Russellville Tennessee and used to make a version of stackcake for Christmas that was so incredible. A little different from your recipe but the same principle. We baked the layers on flipped over pie pans (on the bottom) and rolled them out and trimmed the edge. Never knew how many layers till it was over. 😁. She used her homemade applesauce and spices for the filling and topping. Just a work of love for sure. Sometimes we had 12 layers and sometimes 14. They only made this in the colder weather as they had no refrigerators. Her recipe goes back to about 1850. Thanks so much again.
I've never knew anyone but my great grandmother make these, with her own apple butter of course, and only 2x a year -- Christmas and the yearly family reunion. Never saw her make them, thought they were actually cake mix and the one time it was attempted at my house, the cake fell apart from the moisture of the apple butter. Definitely going to give this a go next year. Thank you so much for sharing it. (BTW, my grandma said they called it Kentucky Fruitcake--Family's from Carter County--when they were kids--she's 90 now. I always called it Apple Butter Cake... ) Going to have to grab this link and send to Mom, she'll be so happy!
My ex mother in law made 15 layers. I think she put it in the frig 2 or 3 days after it was made. Oh my, it was so good!!! This was 30 yrs ago. She used the dried apples. It was heaven!!!
I have learned that doing the separating dry and wet works so much better. LOL! While you were stirring the wet I notice my mouse going in circles, I was helping you stir, LOL!
Hi from a fellow Rhea Countian Lol! My dad always talks about his mom (my granny) making a thin layered cake that was his favorite as a kid ...I can't wait to show this to him and see if this is the cake of his childhoid! If so...I know what I'll be making for him soon!
The cake looks delicious, yummy. I am wondering if hou could please do a video on making your home made vanilla or please tell me how to make it. it would be a great Christmas gift (not this year). Love watching your vidoes. They have helped me alot.
That was amazing! I love history combined with food. I can see why that was a special cake, and no I am not using my apple butter! 4 quarts oh my goodness! We just moved here 4 years ago and hoped there would be an older one in our congregation who could teach us some of the old ways of the Blue Ridge, just like his family did about the Green Mountains up north, but we are in the foothills and in a younger congregation. I so love your videos because I'm a cookbook history junkie. Thank you for your video. Greetings from the Foothills of the Blue Ridge in NC
Just found your channel... yum. I wonder if you chopped the apple filling a bit if it would be easier to stack. And just imagine this strawberry shortcake style... Layers of strawberry and cake then when you serve it add the whipped cream/ice cream.
We are from Eastern Ky .. my grandma Thompson didn't use apple .. she use apple butter.. and she was born in1900. and her momma made them. so right look how old is that.
Question - could you, me, do the layers in a 9 by 13 pan? That way it would be 3 to 5 layers. Just thinking. Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
Wow! I've never heard of these! If they were made as wedding cakes, it must have been made at the home where the ceremony was, because I can't see how it would transport well. What a wonderful labor of love though. Thanks Patara!
+Karen Berry Slicing after it settles in isn't that bad... transporting, especially if tall, could be an issue! Ha! I would recommend 6 layers only for that.
+Martha Michloney I bet strawberries cooked down would be downright delicious... add some whipped cream... you talk about a delicious cake! Great idea! The cakes are NOT spicy so, you can honestly do whatever you prefer! xo
Patara, How do you eat that? Will it get short enough that you can cut slices? Anyway it looks really good:) I wanted to let you know that I found a u tube channel that shows you how to make homemade mascara natural (Ela Gala) that's the name of the channel. I can't wear store bought mascara, but I can wear this! Anyway Merry Christmas to you and your and your channel:)
So, you're supposed to leave it stand, not serve it fresh, but how on earth do you cut that? the layers are so thin did they disintegrate with that chunky wet apple filling? How many 'slices' are in it? Thank you (from a bit boggled of the UK)😨
hi. I just found your cornbread recipe. do u ever make it with pork crackling? I don't know where I can buy them. I had it in Texas. but I can't find them here in Port hueneme. I love watching u I'm just dieing to try so much of it ....starting with the toothpaste... u have beautiful teeth...thank u for all your info...
+Appalachia's Homestead Hi Ms. Patera! My Mil had a notebook with recipes like that... "use the small cup" to measure out the flour etc lol Speaking of Vanilla...Do you have a video/vlog either here or Fcbk on How you make your homemade vanilla? Tnx & God Bless
My memaw Hovis from Overscotia used to make her stack 20 layers high with a gallon of apple butter. She dead now and we don't eat this kinda food no more. RIP Memaw Hovis
