Strawberry Stack Cake

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2010

We set out to update a traditional stack cake recipe, scrapping the traditional sorghum and lard, and adding strawberries to make it summer-ready.

SERVES 12

TIME 2¾ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling and 8 hours chilling

Strawberry Stack Cake

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This traditional Appalachian Strawberry Stack Cake recipe combines thin, spiced molasses rounds with stewed dried apples. We decided to swap strawberries for the apples in an attempt to update it. We found that using cream cheese in the dou...

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