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Active Time
1 hr
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Total Time
2 days (includes time for flavors to develop)
This winter dessert is based on traditional stack-cake recipes from Appalachia. Small layers (baked in muffin tins) are sandwiched together with a jamlike apple filling to create individual desserts that are unlike any cake you've come across.
Ingredients
Makes 12 individual cakes
For filling
For cakes
Make filling:
Step 1
Simmer all filling ingredients and a pinch of salt in a 4- to 5-quart heavy pot, uncovered, stirring occasionally and mashing apples with a potato masher as they soften, until a thick purée forms, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool completely.
Make cakes:
Step 2
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter muffin cups.
Step 3
Stir together milk and vinegar and let stand 10 minutes to curdle.
Step 4
Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, and cloves.
Step 5
用电动搅拌机打黄油和红糖at medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in molasses and egg. At low speed, add flour mixture in 3 batches alternately with curdled milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until each addition is just incorporated. Spread 1 heaping tablespoon batter in each muffin cup and bake just until a wooden pick inserted in center of a cake comes out clean with some crumbs adhering, 11 to 13 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in pans on racks, then invert onto racks to cool completely.
Assemble cakes:
Step 6
Spread about 2 tablespoons filling on top of 1 cake and invert another cake over filling, then spread a heaping tablespoon filling on top. Make 11 more stacks (you will have about 2 cups filling left over). Transfer to an airtight container and chill at least 2 days for flavors to develop. Bring to room temperature before serving.
·Cakes can be assembled 3 days ahead and chilled in an airtight container.
·Leftover filling can be used like apple butter.
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Reviews (2)
Back to Topyou might try one of the other recipes and pat out like small biscuits. This one misses the soaked in goodness.
Jdwebb
12/7/2014
I made this according to recipe and it it turned out beautifully--they looked just like the photo and were quite tasty.
ilikemeatloaf
portland, or
5/29/2009