This is probably the most “mountain” of cakes. The story goes that James Harrod, one of Kentucky’s early pioneers and the founder of Harrodsburg, brought the stack cake recipe when he came to the ...

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You won’t find it in many modern gourmet cookbooks, but you might run across it in a southeastern Kentucky grandmother’s recipe collection. Stack cakes, a treat found in certain parts of Kentucky and ...

It goes by many different names. Some call it Tennessee mountain stack cake, or Kentucky apple stack cake or even the Appalachian stack cake. But growing up, it was just called stack cake and it came ...

This dense, rich cake from Joan Aller's forthcoming cookbook, Cider Beans, Wild Greens and Dandelion Jelly, is remarkably easy to make, but incredibly flavorful. She says it is based on cakes ...