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 ...

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 ...

Both the folklore and history behind Appalachian stack cakes have always been a little romantic to me. The traditional dessert looks like a sky-high pile of thick pancakes spread with even thicker ...

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 ...

Apple stack cake is a traditional Southern Appalachian food whose purpose has changed over the years. “The story goes that the cakes were served as wedding cakes,” said Norma Idom, a volunteer ...