Apple Butter Stack Cake

Apple Butter Stack Cake

The cool Autumn days are busting in colors with the changing of the seasons.  I recall days like this from my childhood.  My grandparents lived in walking distance and I would visit them almost everyday.  I can recall the old coal stove that my grandmother prepared meals on.  The spicy aromas that lingered in the air. The following recipe is from those days gone by...

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups self-rising flour
• 1 2/3 cups sugar
• 3/4 cups milk
• 5 tablespoon lard
• 2-3 teaspoon ginger ( add to taste )
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 large jar apple butter

In mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, 3/4 cups milk and lard.  Beat vigorously by hand or at medium speed of electric mixer for two minutes.  Add eggs, 1/2 cup milk, vanilla and ginger.  Beat two more minutes.  Pour batter into eight large iron skillets. The batter should be about 3/4 inches thick when poured into the skillets.

I use two large skillets and just reuse them for each batter.  Bake at 350 degrees for twenty minutes.  Let cool then spread apple butter on the first cake then top with the next cake and repeat first step.  This recipe makes two cakes of four layers each.  Store in cover dish and refrigerate overnight.

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