One of the best things about a big country is all the regional recipes that provide windows into the local culture, and ...

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 ...

Florence Mitchell of Powell, Tenn., learned to make apple stack cake from her mother-in-law, the late Jamie Foster Mitchell. She usually makes a six-layer cake but has made an eight-layer cake before.

Both the folklore and history behind Appalachian stack cakes have always been a little romantic to me. The traditional dessert looks like a sky-high pile of thick pancakes spread with even thicker ...