Mom's Apple Stack Cake

Old southern family recipe handed down for years.

• Ready In: 35 mins
• Serves: 10
• Yields: 1-2 cakes

Ingredients

• COOKIE LAYERS

• 2  cups sugar
• 2  eggs
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 1⁄2 cup  sour milk (buttermilk)
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  tablespoons boiling water
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved in the boiling water

• FILLING

• 1 (1 quart) jar applesauce, sweetened with the sugar and cinnamon
•  sugar
•  cinnamon

Directions

1. Mix together cookie layer ingredients and add enough flour to roll out nicely.
2. Take a piece of dough about the size of your fist and pat it out in pie tins.
3. It will be thin.
4. Bake 2 at a time at 375 degrees about 10 minutes.
5. Makes about 9 pie size cookies.
6. Spread filling between each layer and on top of assembled cake.
7. Sometimes you can make 2 cakes from this recipe.
8. This cake improves with age after the filling has soaked into the cookie layers.
9. Best if eaten a day or 2 after it is made.