Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it's time to set aside any caloric anxiety, don the stretchy pants, and begin planning for the Christmas meal. Here's a hint. Apple Stack Cake should be on the menu.

Cook time: Depends on how big you want your stack. This recipe makes one 9-inch cake with six stacks. Three stacks were baked simultaneously for 10 to 12 minutes The filling (recipe below) takes about ...

A traditional Appalachian treat that arrived by way of Germany, recipes for stack cakes — a tower of thin biscuit-like dough layered with fruit filling — are hard to find in modern cookbooks. You ...

Fred Sauceman’s wife, Jill, is the only grandchild in her family who makes her late grandmother’s dried apple stack cake. The recipe for the cake is well over 100 years old. The cake calls for no ...

Jordan said the recipe makes a five-layer stack cake, but she has seen them prepared with as many as eight layers. “It’s not difficult to make, it’s just a little time-consuming,” she said. She dries ...

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 large egg 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1. Make the cake. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The door to the log cabin kept opening and closing. Ashley English walked in first. Her 2-year-old toddler was a mad man, said the harried mother of two, shutting the door behind her ...