How to Make a Traditional Appalachian Apple Stack Cake

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2021
  • In this video I demonstrate how to make a traditional Appalachian Stack Cake. There are many recipes and variations of this wonderful cake. The recipe I use came from Sidney Saylor Farr who was a wonderful cook from Kentucky.
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Комментарии • 595

  • @CelebratingAppalachia
    @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +15

    🍳Purchase my eCookbook - 10 of My Favorite Recipes from Appalachia here: etsy.me/3kZmaC2

    • @comfortouch
      @comfortouch 2 года назад

      Have you tried cooking the dried apples in a slow cooker or pressure cooker?

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +1

      @@comfortouch I haven't but I bet that would work great 😀

    • @sherrywilliams409
      @sherrywilliams409 2 года назад

      Do you grow your own apples?

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +2

      @@sherrywilliams409 we have a few trees 😀 we lost one a couple of years ago so now 2 of ours are small, but hopefully will produce like the old one in years to come 😀

    • @rebeccadees2300
      @rebeccadees2300 Год назад

      Ordered it yesterday.. 😊

  • @bmattyd
    @bmattyd 2 года назад +173

    My mom made and sold apple stack cakes every year for money to buy Christmas presents for her 4 children. She charged $1.00 per layer. What a bargain!! I put up apples this year with the intention of making a stack cake in her memory. I sure do miss her! Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe with us.

  • @norencenelson8111
    @norencenelson8111 2 года назад +38

    Had a neighbor who was like a father to my wife and I. He grew up in eastern Kentucky coal mining country; Appalachia. He was forever working at some project like drying apples and gardening. He made that cake once and it was delicious. Like nothing I'd ever eaten. He recalled his mother made that cake. Pioneers, who went west in covered wagons on the trails would take dried fruit, especially apples. They would make fried pies from them. One pioneer woman stated that she could never eat another fried apple pie after five months of them nearly every day. Great recipe, Tipper. My wife and I will have to make one soon. You not only cook food like I grew up on, you have many of the same old pots, mixing bowls and pans. It's amazing Matt is a trim as he is.

    • @rsimellgonzales8396
      @rsimellgonzales8396 2 года назад +5

      Tipper, I have really enjoyed your cooking and family stories. God bless and keep cooking .

  • @johnarnettsways.8758
    @johnarnettsways.8758 2 года назад +73

    Mam I am so glad there are people out there that are willing to pass on our heritage and history. You have done everyone a great service. God bless you and your family. I try to teach anyone that will listen about the way things used to be done. It worked for my great grandfather and it still works for me. ❤️🌲🌲🌲❤️

  • @pattidunkin5906
    @pattidunkin5906 2 года назад +41

    My grandmother, great-grandmother, and six of the oldest great-aunts each brought a layer to Mommom’s house to build the cake stacks for autumn weekends. The women in my family were very proud and competitive about their cooking and baking talents. Sweet memories!

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +9

      Love that!

    • @rolux4853
      @rolux4853 Год назад +2

      Sounds amazing to live in such an amazing family!
      Great memories for sure, I’d love to experience such a cozy autumn afternoon!
      First having a nice walk through the forest, seeing the beautiful colors of the foliage that the mountains have in autumn and after that coming together sitting around a big table with the whole family while a fire crackles in the fireplace in the corner and warms everyone up.
      Then such an amazing cake is out on the table, everyone gets a nice big slice and hot tasty coffee with it.
      Everyone enjoys it so much, no matter the age, old and young are in awe of the amazing taste!
      After that you have great conversations with your family while the smaller children play on the old thick and soft Persian rug that’s in front of the fireplace, while the a little bit older ones run around the house or go outside again to climb trees in the garden or play in the old barn!
      This is at least how it goes in my mind!
      My memories as a German growing up in small villages with my grandmother having an amazing big old farmhouse with great garden and big barns full of old interesting things!
      I really whish I could own this house and garden, it’s the most coziest place I can imagine, it felt so wonderful being their as a kid!
      Even cozier than the house I grew up with my parents in, that old farmhouse just has a kind of magic to it, that no other place came ever close.
      What I felt there was always pure bliss!
      When I got a little older and became a dumb teenager I didn’t really appreciate it anymore and now I’d give everything to experience such an afternoon again with all the lovely people I enjoyed so much being around as a smaller kid who are unfortunately all gone these days.
      What bothers me the most is that I can’t live or even visit that house nowadays.
      I’d love to live there with my wife and have our children their which we are planning to have in the next years.
      I can’t imagine a better and happier place for the, to grow up in that house with all the amazing weird rooms and attics those old farmhouses and barns had! It just felt like magic!
      Unfortunately it was taken away after my grandmother died and they only left the shell of the house (not even that really, they put a modern design over the amazing looking farmhouse walls on the outside) and changed all the amazing old floors, ceiling and walls of the house and build multiple apartments into the house.
      I really miss being there and could really kick myself in the butt very hard for not enjoying it more as a teenager!
      All the magic that house has and I just wasn’t interested anymore, a shame what you loose irretrievably when you try hard to be cool and live the modern lifestyle.
      Nowadays I despise this lifestyle, the same as my wife!
      Fortunately we now live in a little village in a nice old house with a decent garden for fruits and vegetables, but not more space for really few animals like some chickens.
      No horses and pigs that we’d both like so much to have again and the old farm of my grandparents would be the absolute dream for our lifestyle and the way we’d like to continue to live our lives.
      Germany is just to small of a land and property is super expensive and the prices tripled in the last few years, so we can’t even get a little piece of grassland where we could have horses, which that old farm had more than enough of.
      What bugs me the most is that we could have paid the price for the house back then with the help of my parents, but the legal owner of the farm (it’s a weird situation, my grandfather died very early and my grandmother could not work the fields, so she had to basically give the fields away to another farmer and that contract included The house.. I wasn’t even born when that contract was made and my parents didn’t really care for it much back then and weren’t really involved since my grandmother didn’t want to show that she was desperate..
      However that farmer cared for all the fields, she got a part of the earnings and could live in the house rentfree until she dies.
      After she died we would be able to buy it off the farmer with the support of my parents and bank Loans, but that guy did not wanted to give it to us, he wanted to „ruin“ it with his renovation and the Appartements.
      It’s such a shame that this magic place where I loved to be, my grandparents happily lived and my father (and uncle and aunt) grew up couldn’t be passed on to another generation!
      But on the other hand I should not complain since the house that my wife and me own now is the house my mother grew up in and her family owned it since it was initially build something like 1770!
      It’s not a farm but a normal village house,but it’s more than big enough for us, just not as spacy and with all the cool little rooms, weird staircases and amazing attics like my other grandparents house.
      The most thing it’s lacking is the huge garden and the barns.
      We have a cozy garden and enough places to park cars, have a garage/workshop and small animal stables.
      I should be (and I really am!) so grateful for having such a house with my beautiful wife and my parents living as our next door neighbors, It’s just that I have those magic memories of that other place that I’m kinda sad sometimes that we couldn’t own that house.
      Unfortunately humans often want what they can’t have and don’t appreciate what they have enough.
      I often have to remember myself how absolutely amazing my live is, even with the burdens that everyone of us has to carry, for having the most amazing wife that’s always there for me no matter how stupid I am from time to time and we are living rent free in our own house, that does not belong to the bank!
      Wow what a text.. it’s midnight now here in Germany, but somehow your lovely comment of your amazing family just triggered me to write this stuff down.
      I really hope you’re good, you enjoy being with your family and I wish you all the best from Germany to the amazing United States, which I admired for my whole live!
      The freedom of living in the American wild, no matter if mountains or grasslands with hills, is what I often dreamed of as a child!
      Being a cowboy or having a family farm was something that I often imagined and played as a child!
      The diverse wild and untamed lands of the United States always appealed to me so much!
      Carrying those amazing cowboy guns through nature to feed and defend yourself was the ultimate definition of freedom to me, since in Germany nobody can carry a firearm besides police officers.
      Even owning one or hunting or sporting requires you to have a license which costs at least 3000€ and very severe check ups. Every pack of ammo and of course every gun you own has to be registered (which of course costs again) and so on.. then you can only use them on special ranges or if you own a forest, public hunting is forbidden!
      So guns are only for the very rich here and most of them don’t really care about it.

  • @cindypressley4285
    @cindypressley4285 2 года назад +39

    I was fortunate enough to eat a slice of this cake on Thanksgiving Day....it was wonderful! Tipper is one fine cook and actually The Deer Hunter ( my son) is also! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving day and dinner! Hope you all did too!

  • @nannettewalsh6153
    @nannettewalsh6153 2 года назад +10

    My mommy made these cakes and they were delicious!! The hardest part was the waiting to let the apples soak in the layers. I miss my mom and her wonderful cooking. Precious memories. 💜

  • @sharonfromva
    @sharonfromva 2 года назад +13

    This is the same way my mother in law taught me to make my husband's favorite cake!! Thank You Tipper for the awesome memory of my beloved mother in law Ginny

  • @katinakershaw6382
    @katinakershaw6382 2 года назад +15

    I grew up in South Eastern KY. I feel like I got ripped off on the appalachian traditions bc my family wasn't the best let's just say that. But I love your videos and I appreciate you teaching the traditions and the appalachian life I and so many other's crave and missed out on. Much love!

  • @EastSider48215
    @EastSider48215 2 года назад +16

    I love apple stack cake. My recipe is a German variation that has six layers with a lemon glaze on top. It can also be made with prunes, and that is incredibly rich.

  • @AB2B
    @AB2B 2 года назад +15

    My maternal grandmother had a big apple tree, so we always used homemade apple sauce, spiced up with sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, spread between every layer, and always at least 8 layers. I've never used dried apples, though most of our neighbors did. I'm really going to have to do that for Christmas, try something different. I heard the story about the wedding stack cake, too, the reason being because it was a poor community and people couldn't afford much, so they would, indeed, drop the layers and sauce off the day before so it could be put together. I'm with you; even if it's not true, I really would like to believe it because it's such a sweet story.

  • @shannonadams3101
    @shannonadams3101 2 года назад +15

    I dried alot of McIntosh apples this year and I would love to try this. I've had apple stack cake before, but never made one. My Grandma said her mama made alot of her cakes in multiple thin layers using several pans because the shorter baking time help conserve firewood. She also put her apples on a piece of cardboard (or pasteboard as she called it) and put them inside an old junk car that was on their tobacco farm. The sun coming through the windshield dried those apples fast!

  • @sbishop16
    @sbishop16 2 года назад +23

    This cake is so special to me, my Grandmother made one every year for Christmas (as well as a fresh walnut cake, another story in itself) and hers was always 11 layers! I make it and I’ve never perfected it past 7 layers. ( When I made 11 layers it turned out more like the leaning tower!). I coat the whole cake with apples but yours is beautiful so I believe I’ll make mine this way this year. My son tells me that I put a whole lotta love in this cake, he knows it’s special, and Everyone enjoys it! Very nice video, Thank You! 🥰

    • @VendettaAllspice
      @VendettaAllspice Год назад

      Wow this is a red-letter day for me I have never heard of fresh walnut cake before it sounds absolutely wonderful

  • @christinej2358
    @christinej2358 2 года назад +30

    My hubby’s granny made stack cake with all the thin layers and her homemade applesauce for holidays. It was delicious and I absolutely enjoyed it. Sadly, I never got her recipe. I found one on line and made it, but just wasn’t the same. I’ll try your recipe and hopefully it will be like hers. Thank you for sharing!

  • @goodgrieflouiser5807
    @goodgrieflouiser5807 2 года назад +24

    Anyone that would take this much time to make this apple stack cake is certainly not lazy. I love to bake but this is way more intense for me to tackle. I did enjoy watching you two putting this together. I’m sure it is delicious.

    • @lolaottinger3038
      @lolaottinger3038 2 года назад +2

      I can relate to what you say Louise, my want to is way bigger than my able to. I blame it on my advanced age!!! I advanced to 79 in June. 😂

  • @gailsears2913
    @gailsears2913 2 года назад +16

    I've never seen a stack cake. Yours was so beautiful and looked so good! Thank you for sharing.

  • @tagladyify
    @tagladyify 2 года назад +2

    I love the idea of people bringing layers for the cake. It’s symbolic of the community contributing to the upbringing of the ones getting married.

  • @rhondabutler4172
    @rhondabutler4172 2 года назад +15

    Granny made this cake every year for my uncle’s birthday. It was his favorite. Thanks Tipper for showing how you make yours. As best I can remember, Granny made hers just the same way.

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +2

      I've heard a lot of folks say they ask for one on their birthday 😀

  • @susanshumolis4644
    @susanshumolis4644 2 года назад +16

    I love apple stack cake. My grandmother made a dessert she called stack pudding. She would make the same dried apple mixture as you made for the cake. She would layer it with custard and put meringue on top.

  • @bezek71
    @bezek71 2 года назад +7

    My dad and mom loved "dried apple stack cake." My family made them with thin layers, I have been drying apples getting ready to make one for Christmas.

  • @frankscarborough1428
    @frankscarborough1428 2 года назад +10

    My great grandmother made apple sauce cake. She made thin to medium sized cake maybe 5 or 6 layers. She made them for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They were so good.

  • @jeffpearson4088
    @jeffpearson4088 2 года назад +5

    My grandmother was from Missouri and she made a stack cake with dried peaches. I'm not sure how she got started using peaches, but it sure was delicious!

  • @kaydavis6752
    @kaydavis6752 2 года назад +27

    We last year got a wonderful large apple harvest and this recipe is ideal for using up a good number of the apples. I might try it with other fruit as well to use stores up. ❤️

  • @dixietenbroeck8717
    @dixietenbroeck8717 2 года назад +12

    *TIP 4 TIPPER:* Get y'self a large, very thin plastic, "cutting board" (the kind ya can roll up if ya want to!), then, on the UNDERSIDE of it, trace different sized circles using a large-tipped permanent marker. *(Don't forget to **_LABEL_** the sizes of the circles!)* Start with the largest circle, centering it on the "board," then trace progressively smaller circles inside the first, LARGE, circle. Then, you can roll out your layers of cake (or pizza crusts, or pie crusts, or whatever you want!) on the TOPSIDE of the "cutting board," and you'll know when you've "hit the mark" for your desired size!
    I was given a store-bought, roll-up "cutting board" that's printed with circles like this, and it's been pretty handy, but I've never actually seen one for sale anywhere. This "make your own" version seems like a far less expensive alternative (think "Dollar Store" for the plastic "board"), and I'm _ALWAYS_ trying to be "frugal." My Great- Grand- Mother used to say: *"Save your pennies, and spend your dollars,"* a motto I've always liked! (I'm _NEVER_ "cheap," but *ALWAYS FRUGAL!)*

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +3

      Love that tip thank you!

    • @garybrunet6346
      @garybrunet6346 2 года назад +2

      @@CelebratingAppalachia Tupperware makes one with the measurements. It’s a bit expensive. However, mine has lasted 20 some odd years and still going strong.😊🇨🇦

    • @janemartin229
      @janemartin229 2 года назад +2

      You might run across a Tupperware pie rolling mat in a thrift store--I found one there.

    • @bernadettestapleton2016
      @bernadettestapleton2016 Год назад

      In Ireland we have a saying, save your pennies your pounds will look after themselves. Very similar to your grannies saying. I'd love to try making this juicy apple stack cake. I've never heard or tasted an apple stack cake

  • @arizonasgotheat
    @arizonasgotheat 2 года назад +19

    This is how we always made our stack cake! I have used my homemade apple butter as well as dried apples to make the filling. The cake sounds like the one we would make but I have used a gingerbread cookie recipe as well. Delicious! It would taste better after it sat for a few days.

  • @Suleclo
    @Suleclo 2 года назад +9

    I have never heard of this cake. It looks fantastic, especially with the custard. Thank you!🍎🍏

  • @dipstick5869
    @dipstick5869 2 года назад +9

    We make a Multi layer cake in Louisiana called a Doberge which originated in New Orleans. It consist of alternating thin cake slices with chocolate icing and vanilla pudding. I'm going to try making your Applestack cake which looks great and taste even better I'm sure! Cherish each piece because it is labor intensive, but well worth it!!!😋

  • @janetsmart-countryliving1059
    @janetsmart-countryliving1059 2 года назад +5

    I love what I call applesauce stack cake. My grandma made it all the time and so did my aunts. I make it, too. But we made it an easier way. Grandma used applesauce or apple butter and not the dried apples. It was still delicious! I make 6 or 7 thin layers and let it sit for a couple of days before eating it. Getting a piece of that cake from Grandma is one of my fondest childhood memories.

  • @gentianvandewerken929
    @gentianvandewerken929 2 года назад +8

    Awesome I love ginger - - - most people add to much cinnamon and use it over ginger, not me! This sounds scrumptious, I have the apples but cannot eat sweets, if could /I would make this, and sorghum cane sweetener is so cool how you can grow the cane and get your own sweetener in Appalachia, thanks for another good one!

  • @laurashipp447
    @laurashipp447 2 года назад +2

    I have a question, do you know what a wonderful storyteller you are? I love history and the great thing about your stories is they are true, they are warm and full of love. Continued blessings to all, stay safe and well everyone.

  • @phyllisalexander7644
    @phyllisalexander7644 2 года назад +8

    What a BEAUTIFUl product! Simplicity at its finest. All the wonderful flavors of fall and winter. My mamma used to make an applesauce cake. The layers were just white and between each layer she spread, generously, the applesauce which she had canned previously. Letting it set overnight made for a very moist cake. It was very difficult for us kids to wait for our first slice. Thank you Tipper for yet another great video.
    Jeri Whittaker 11/28/2021

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed this one Jeri! I bet your mamma's cake was so good!

  • @charlottepatterson2864
    @charlottepatterson2864 2 года назад +6

    I had a friend that made a similar cake with a different fruit filling, maybe berries of some kind. Also the cake layers were darker, more spicy. I imagine making it with peaches or apricots would be delicious, but more expensive too. I love the idea of serving it with custard. You have a very calm and inviting manner and explain things so well with interesting details. Enjoyed this very much. I want to try this recipe soon. Thank you.

  • @khartoumist1031
    @khartoumist1031 Год назад

    This is one video where you're gonna be perfectly happy to just sit and listen instead of skipping right to the recipe

  • @kimberlygrant3595
    @kimberlygrant3595 2 года назад +5

    Oh my goodness I haven't ever had one of these prepared from a true baker! I would love to purchase one if you ever want to sale some!!! I've only made an applesauce cake that my son loves.. But watching you making this It's so amazing!!!! I'm looking forward to more readings, stories and delicious recipes 💞💯🙏🔆💞

  • @KamboCan629
    @KamboCan629 2 года назад +1

    Tipper. What a sweet memory this video created. My wife and I moved her parents in with us this past summer due to their health. He is 95 and has Dementia, and she is 87 with end stage Parkinson's. As I sat watching your video this evening, I ask my wife if she had every made any in the past when she was growing up and out of the stillness from the corner of the room where momma sits quietly and is but rarely verbal, come a resounding and hearty, "sold many of them to buy coal for winter". Surprised, my wife and I looked at each other and ask her, "sold what momma?" She said, "stack cakes". And with that she closed her eyes and bowed her head and went back to rocking. Tipper she rarely says anything, and to her sweet voice and be alert to answer a question that wasn't even asked of her but my wife, let's us know that even though she may not always be verbal she is always listening. I love you momma, and
    Thanks Tipper. You just don't know what all you do to bless your readers, but I know one day you will receive your blessed crown.

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +2

      Makes me teary eyed-in a good way. Thank you so much for sharing that wonderful happening!! Praying for all of you!!

    • @KamboCan629
      @KamboCan629 2 года назад +1

      @@CelebratingAppalachia its okay we were teary eyed when it happen.

  • @cherylyant3963
    @cherylyant3963 15 дней назад

    I’ve never had the pleasure of tasting this wonderful cake but I’ve enjoyed the stories everyone has shared about it. So much history here. Thank you Tipper for bringing the old ways back. Bless you.

  • @offgridgrandma2766
    @offgridgrandma2766 2 года назад +6

    Thank you times 100. My great aunt made this and it took forever to find her recipe. ❤❤❤

  • @shannoncollins2184
    @shannoncollins2184 2 года назад +3

    Old fashion stack cake is in our family cookbook, every year when I make it I always feel closer to them. My great grandmother, “mamaw burke”, submitted it to our family cookbook and I use my great aunt’s old tin pie pan with scalloped edges to cut out my layers . At the bottom of her recipe she writes that stack cake started in Kentucky. They were all from eastern Kentucky.
    I’ve made a many to bring into work and share our traditions with everyone.

  • @lindahays8444
    @lindahays8444 2 года назад +7

    Oh my goodness. Your Apple stack cake looked amazing and delicious.

  • @lynettepavelich7540
    @lynettepavelich7540 2 года назад +15

    What a beautiful cake! I’ve never heard of this! Love the idea that it’s best the next day; very helpful during the holidays. Thank you!

    • @Siouxsi-Sioux
      @Siouxsi-Sioux 2 года назад +5

      This cake is sooooo good! And yes, after the next day, when all the apples have been absorbed by the cake.....heaven.

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +3

      Thank you! Hope you enjoy it if you give it a try 😀

  • @cherylbellottie9259
    @cherylbellottie9259 2 года назад +1

    My mom was born and raised in Virginia. She used to make stack cakes. The cake was a spice cake and homemade apple butter was spread between each layer. It was so delicious and such a beautiful memory! You do remind me of my lovely aunts. Thank you!

  • @jackiewilson2973
    @jackiewilson2973 Год назад +3

    Thanks for this. I've just discovered your channel and am so grateful that you are keeping the traditions alive. First time I saw an apple stack cake, I was in elementary school (over 40 years ago). The mother of my mom's best friend had invited us to her house for her birthday get together. I remember sitting in her kitchen early in the morning and watching her put this cake together with her friends and listening to them tell stories. Her and her friends (in their 60's and 70's at the time) told me how special it was to make one because of the time that it took drying the apples, making the layers, etc. They told stories about going to celebrations or other gatherings and contributing to the stack cake so I think that story is true. Travel took longer back then so get togethers were all day or even weekend affairs so the cake would have had plenty of time to set. They also said that the number of layers that were brought meant good fortune for the bride and groom if it was a wedding so the more the better. :)

  • @rebeccawinkler9528
    @rebeccawinkler9528 2 года назад +6

    I learned to make them from my grandmother. I too read the story of them being used as wedding cakes. Such a wonderful sharing of those you loved and invited. My grandmother always added a large can of ginger. I suppose for that reason we called the gingerbread cakes as kids. Cookies were always made with any leftovers. Yet my favorite story to tell is the time she made an 11 layer cake, wrapped it thoroughly, it took center stage in the Christmas box that was sent to my brother in Vietnam in 1968. I learned later on after her passing their true history of it in Appalachia.

  • @imogenethomas1138
    @imogenethomas1138 Год назад

    For all my life, I thought my grandmother invented this cake! It’s the only one she ever made. Yours is beautiful!

  • @susanmelton2779
    @susanmelton2779 2 года назад +2

    I am making this Christmas, your layers look like I remember when I was child. First time I made it my layers were thicker and cake not as moist. Thank you for this.

  • @renitawallace3016
    @renitawallace3016 10 месяцев назад +1

    My mom made these every Christmas & they were so good. She made a stiff dough & added apple butter between her layers. She always made a great haomemade fruit cake every Christmas with soft fruits in hers that was absolutely delicious! Fruitcake gets a bd rep but if you ate some of hers it would change your mind. She would wrap hers up in tin foil & let it sit in the fridge for days before we got to eat any of it. My brother & a friend always aggravated her & acted lke they were going to eat some of it before it was ready. hahaha This brought back sweet memories for me.

  • @robinhaupt9119
    @robinhaupt9119 7 месяцев назад

    Tipper! My dear friend told me she's dehydrating apples, didn't know what she'd do with them. I said "make Tippers apple stack cake"! She's going to, she can't wait. Thank you so much!

  • @sheliacarr8872
    @sheliacarr8872 2 года назад

    I’m from around Chattanooga Tn. My brother married a girl from Middlesbrough Ky & her mother would send us a apple stack cake for Christmas when my brother an his wife would come in for Christmas & that cake was unforgettable, probably undoubtedly the best from scratch cake I’ve ever had. She would also make the hard rock candy for us. I just love your videos, we were raised a lot like you, run & romped in the mountains, fished in the pond & played outside, hide & go seek in the dark, I can still hear the frogs & katydids (cicadas) I’ve lived all my life on a mtn. In Tn. I wouldn’t have it any other way, the city life ain’t for me. ♥️. Edit...I told you wrong, I’m sorry. It was a applesauce stack cake, these was no whole pc’s of apples on it.

  • @jenr395
    @jenr395 6 месяцев назад

    My Nannie used to make this at Christmas and it was my daddy's favorite. She made it just for him❤

  • @coopie624
    @coopie624 2 года назад +4

    This looks delicious! Now I want to make one. The romantic story is my favorite! ❤️

  • @sheilahackney6214
    @sheilahackney6214 2 года назад +5

    Looks yummy and it's beautiful!! I remember my grandma made theses💞💞

  • @maryparker2922
    @maryparker2922 2 года назад +1

    My g'ma made vinegar stack cake. My brother loved it and copied her recipe as she made it and estimated her amounts as she never measured. She did say to always make an uneven number of layers for good luck. I will always remember her patting the layers out into the cake pans. She did dry apples sometimes but we didn't like them and I don't like apple butter either. She was from Eastern Ky also. Menifee county.

  • @jaydee6837
    @jaydee6837 2 года назад

    My wife is making this for my Birthday today! SO DANG EXCITED!
    Both of our mothers are from Appalachia, met in Florida, moved back to Tennessee after married. These foothills, creeks, and muddy clay soil calls you home in a way that you know you have a long history already with but don't know how.

  • @wandasmith6850
    @wandasmith6850 11 месяцев назад +1

    I remember my grandma would make it with several layers.I’m sure glade I found you❤

  • @hollyr.1139
    @hollyr.1139 2 года назад +1

    I made an apple stack cake for a coworker's wedding. The story that went along with it was that in the pioneer days, each wedding guest (or couple or family, I suppose) brought one layer to the wedding dance, to be assembled with the filling. The top was dusted with sugar, like this one is. For the wedding cake I made, I candied violets and other springtime wildflowers and put them on top, too. It's a delicious cake even without a wedding.

  • @dinacox1971
    @dinacox1971 Год назад

    My family is from rural Missouri and usually, your recipes are much the same as my childhood, but this is completely new to me. It looks simply wonderful.

  • @cathyrichmond6178
    @cathyrichmond6178 2 года назад +3

    I'm not a fresh apple dessert lover but I would sure try a bite of this. It must really taste good to go to all that trouble. Thanks for sharing your life with us.

    • @janet1744
      @janet1744 Год назад +1

      Cathy: I think the fresh apple slices are cooked down like the dried apples and used the same way.

  • @fwood1231
    @fwood1231 Год назад

    My grandmother (Mamaw) was from Tennessee and her cooking was so so similar to all of the recipes you share. And everything is so delicious and wonderful. She made Stack Cake on special occasions, usually at Christmas or Thanksgiving. She said traditionally it was a winter cake because it could spoil easily and they had no refrigerator when she was growing up. She was born in 1892.
    In Tennessee, she had apple trees and used apples from her trees for the stack cake, but after moving to Texas to live with us, we had no apple trees and she made the cake with applesauce. She made many layers, with thin cookie like layers. We baked the cookies on the cake pans inverted. Rolled the dough on the pan and trimmed the edge and put the pan directly into the oven. Finished cookies were usually around 1/4” thickness or marginally thicker. Her dough recipe makes eleven to fourteen layers in the completed cake. Each layer was buttered and let to soak for a minute before the applesauce was spread on. The sides of the cake also have the applesauce spread on.
    And we never cut the cake or served it until the following day.
    I’m wondering if this is what you referred to as applesauce cake. It’s a absolutely wonderful cake,but definitely not light and fluffy. In the morning, with a glass of milk or now, a cup of coffee, it’s just wonderful.
    Thank you for refreshing those memories for me.
    My grandmother did say that they made this cake on special occasions. The first being when they were butchering hogs in the Fall and that was typically a community affair. And several cooks would contribute towards making multiple cakes. The second occasion was Christmas and usually there was no collaboration on baking the cake. One of my fondest memories of childhood Christmas.

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  Год назад

      Thank you for sharing! I have heard folks call apple stack cakes applesauce cakes 😀

  • @vickiebirchfield1722
    @vickiebirchfield1722 10 месяцев назад

    I grew up in the middle of Ky. This recipes are like my mom and Granny 's. So good!

  • @naturesmagik
    @naturesmagik 2 года назад

    Yum, that looks so good!

  • @daisymae1966
    @daisymae1966 Год назад

    I am from the Blue Ridge Mtns and love to hear of my Mawmaw and Pawpaw's Appalachian ways. I try to honor them by doing much of things that they taught me about. When I not only hear but see some of the recipes that they did... I get so thrilled and anxious to do them. I can a lot and love to do mostly how my mom taught me to do. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I am going to do this for a church fellowship time soon. I know it will be a hit among the older people and the younger folks too. May the Lord bless you richly as you share with us.

  • @1Melody1963
    @1Melody1963 9 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I make this every year for Thanksgiving, since it is a family tradition and my dad’s favorite that his mother made. Back in the early 1950’s my dad shipped out with the US Army. He was from a poor mountain family of 12 kids, he was the first one to leave home. His first Christmas away, my grandmother made this cake and packed it in a fruit cake tin and shipped it all the way from Asheville, NC to him in Anchorage, AK. My grandmother has been gone since 1983 but this is one more mountain connection I can maintain. My daughters love the cake too.

  • @Jean-ko4xv
    @Jean-ko4xv 2 года назад +1

    My mouth is watering. God Bless. Jean

  • @EEE.155
    @EEE.155 13 дней назад

    I love stack cakes haven't had a really homemade one since my Mamaw passed away ❣️

  • @larrycounce4509
    @larrycounce4509 2 года назад

    Oh wow

  • @llkoolbean4935
    @llkoolbean4935 2 года назад

    Omg that looks so good.

  • @eugenefried5609
    @eugenefried5609 2 года назад

    happy holidays !!!! loved watching this creation !!!!

  • @diannedutton6127
    @diannedutton6127 2 года назад

    Beautiful cake.

  • @deloreswatkins9844
    @deloreswatkins9844 2 года назад

    I love your mix er tipper

  • @chrisscutt4197
    @chrisscutt4197 2 года назад

    YUM! I have to try this.

  • @larrysmith6499
    @larrysmith6499 2 года назад

    Love your cooking

  • @karenc560
    @karenc560 2 года назад

    That cake looks scrumptious!!

  • @helenegann6647
    @helenegann6647 2 года назад

    Looks absolutely delicious

  • @jasonrichards3785
    @jasonrichards3785 2 года назад

    That looks so good!!!!!!!!!!!! Great video!!!!!!!

  • @kimj.becker5527
    @kimj.becker5527 2 года назад

    Oh that looks so yummy

  • @keeptrying5962
    @keeptrying5962 2 года назад

    Oh that looks SO GOOD! This was fun. THANK YOU!

  • @nobodyuknow6585
    @nobodyuknow6585 Год назад

    Thank you for a wonderful video.

  • @maryloufornehed405
    @maryloufornehed405 10 месяцев назад

    My maternal grandmother had an apple orchard. She dried apples every year using an old screen outside in the sun. Then about a week before Thanksgiving she would start cooking the apples for my Mama...Mama was in charge of making the tea cakes that made up the layers. Then Mama would put it together. My grandmother "Mother" has been passed away for >15 years but my Mama does not know what she put in her apples and Mother did not write it down. I am thinking of using your receipe here and see if it tastes anything like hers. This was also a favorite of my Daddy's. He's been gone several years as well...this video brings back wonderful memories! Thank you! Mary Lou

  • @edhunley
    @edhunley Год назад

    I'm absolutely thrilled to find this video. My grandmother made this very often. She passed away in 1974 and I haven't had a stack cake since. I ordered the cookbook you recommended. I'll be making with apples that I dried myself.

  • @RobertSmith-vr9bs
    @RobertSmith-vr9bs Год назад

    Looks wonderfull.

  • @maryables6752
    @maryables6752 Год назад

    Looks 😋 yummy

  • @chrystalchristmas827
    @chrystalchristmas827 2 года назад

    I had to play the comments about “asking your husband’s opinion then doing the opposite” to my husband so he will feel less alone. I really am going to put this in a journal for my daughter’s future. It would be a lovely wedding cake

  • @louisianapatriot5818
    @louisianapatriot5818 2 года назад

    What a lovely cake! Nothing like the the past.

  • @catherinejustcatherine1778
    @catherinejustcatherine1778 Год назад

    Thank you for all the information and hard work you put into these videos

  • @conniesmith7800
    @conniesmith7800 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @Beckylu-zq5zh
    @Beckylu-zq5zh 2 года назад

    Good morning, I'm new here, I'm from the Oregon coast, (born in Nebraska and 63 years old) You are just precious!! I love this channel! You bring my day such joy just hearing your sweet voice and watching you cook and share your wonderful recipes, tricks and tips!
    You and your daughters are absolutely delightful!!!
    God bless you sweet family!

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  2 года назад +1

      You are so kind-thank you 😀

    • @Beckylu-zq5zh
      @Beckylu-zq5zh 2 года назад

      Thank you ! I got your recipe book!
      Lovely! Can't wait to start making some of these recipes!
      I'll let you know my favorites!
      Thank you again!
      God bless!

  • @dianeblanton8435
    @dianeblanton8435 2 года назад

    Mom used to make this as I grew up. It was always a treat I had others by different people but never as good as my moms.Lord I miss her and all her great cooking. Thank you for taking me back to my child hood growing up in the South Mountains of NC. Man I was blessed

  • @benlaw4647
    @benlaw4647 2 года назад

    That looks so good ! I know y'all enjoyed eating it! Thanks tipper ...God bless...🙏

  • @flexmasterson4297
    @flexmasterson4297 Год назад

    My wife is an Apple gal and I’m going to make this for her for our 25th this New Years Eve. Nothing says I love you like a homemade treat. Thank you for this recipe.

  • @lanabark3755
    @lanabark3755 2 года назад

    I enjoy your recipe .

  • @jerriscollins-ruth9019
    @jerriscollins-ruth9019 2 года назад

    Looks good.

  • @malapoyo
    @malapoyo 2 года назад

    Oh wow! This looks FABULOUS! And I'd never heard of it. DEFINATELY gonna make this. Thanks!

  • @lenelldevereux2284
    @lenelldevereux2284 Год назад

    Beautiful cake..looks wonderful…..oh my

  • @jamesdolan5236
    @jamesdolan5236 2 года назад

    Mmm! You're making me real hungry!

  • @hagglemyivan
    @hagglemyivan 2 года назад +1

    Tipper!! This looks amazing and I will be sure to make it. CAnnot wait to try it!

  • @Prepping_mimi
    @Prepping_mimi 2 года назад

    That looks amazing. I will try it this weekend and have it after Sunday dinner.

  • @kimnichols1458
    @kimnichols1458 2 года назад

    This brings back so many childhood memories. Thank You Tipper and Corey.❤😊😋

  • @kw6661
    @kw6661 2 года назад +1

    Thank you so much for posting this video. I such fond memories of my grandmother, aunt, and mom making the stack cakes.

  • @southwife
    @southwife 2 года назад +1

    Wonderful!!

  • @rickballard1627
    @rickballard1627 2 года назад +1

    Looked great thanks for sharing y'all. Blessings