Dried Apple Gingerbread Stack Cake

Preparation info
  • One 9 inch 4-layer cake; serves about

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

  • About

One of the most interesting and unusual of traditional American cakes, stack cakes are found in Appalachia and throughout the Midwest, wherever apples were dried for winter storage. This recipe, based on one from Indiana-based cookbook author Marilyn Kluger, is a homey combination of warm spices and rich apple flavor. It’s not too heavy or cloyingly sweet.

Dried apples have concentrated flavor that is released when they are simmered in liquid. Simmering in cider instead of water add