If you're hoping to make your homemade cake look bakery-worthy, stacking it into layers is a great idea. Just keep this in ...

Making Apple Stack Cake has been a holiday tradition for my family and for many other mountain people for generations, and is ...

Whether it is a towering wedding cake or a smaller but elaborately decorated Lambeth-style confection, a tiered cake is almost always a crowd-pleaser. But how are you supposed to get such a thing to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What's not to love about a classic, homestyle layer cake? It's a staple at birthdays and special celebrations, and there seems to be something ...

A traditional Appalachian treat that arrived by way of Germany, recipes for stack cakes — a tower of thin biscuit-like dough layered with fruit filling — are hard to find in modern cookbooks. You ...

Cook time: Depends on how big you want your stack. This recipe makes one 9-inch cake with six stacks. Three stacks were baked simultaneously for 10 to 12 minutes The filling (recipe below) takes about ...

Stack cake is the ultimate mountaineers' dessert -- a not too sweet, but satisfying and complexly flavored dessert made of 4-6 thin layers of molasses-tinged, biscuit-like cake covered with a dark, ...

1ST - Prepare Sauce: In a large heavy bottomed sauce pan, bring the apple cider to a boil. Continue to boil over medium high heat until reduced to about ½ cup. This will take 10-20 minutes. Stir in ...

Place dried apples in a saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash apples. Stir in brown sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons ...

This is probably the most “mountain” of cakes. The story goes that James Harrod, one of Kentucky’s early pioneers and the founder of Harrodsburg, brought the stack cake recipe when he came to the ...