Mom'S Apple Stack Cake

13 ingredients
9 steps

Ingredients

  • COOKIE LAYERS
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1/2 cup sour milk (buttermilk)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 tablespoons boiling water
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved in the boiling water
  • FILLING
  • 1 (1 quart) jar applesauce, sweetened with the sugar and cinnamon
  • sugar
  • cinnamon

Directions

  1. 1
    Mix together cookie layer ingredients and add enough flour to roll out nicely.
  2. 2
    Take a piece of dough about the size of your fist and pat it out in pie tins.
  3. 3
    It will be thin.
  4. 4
    Bake 2 at a time at 375 degrees about 10 minutes.
  5. 5
    Makes about 9 pie size cookies.
  6. 6
    Spread filling between each layer and on top of assembled cake.
  7. 7
    Sometimes you can make 2 cakes from this recipe.
  8. 8
    This cake improves with age after the filling has soaked into the cookie layers.
  9. 9
    Best if eaten a day or 2 after it is made.

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