Apple Stack Cake

Name: Apple Stack Cake
Prep time: 4 h 15 min
Cook time: 4 h 15 min
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 14
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters apple butter; 14 servings Apple Cider Glaze; 2 teaspoons apple pie spice; 1 kilograms crisp apples (such as Braeburn or Honeycrisp), peeled and chopped; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 237 milliliters firmly packed light brown sugar; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters buttermilk; 5 larges eggs, separated; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour, divided; 1 lemon, sliced; 237 milliliters chopped toasted pecans; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 kilograms tart apples (such as Granny Smith), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch wedges

Apple Stack Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 14. One portion of this dish contains about 7g of protein, 21g of fat, and a total of 661 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 4 hours and 15 minutes. Head to the store and pick up sugar, tart apples, lemon, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Prepare Filling: Bring first 4 ingredients to a light boil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer, stirring often, 25 to 30 minutes or until apples are tender and juices thicken. Discard lemon slices. Cool completely (about 2 hours). Cover and chill until ready to use.

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Apple

Lemon

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Dutch Oven

Prepare Cake: Lightly grease disposable cake pans with cooking spray; line bottoms of pans with parchment paper, and lightly grease parchment paper.

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Cooking Spray

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Baking Paper

Preheat oven to 35

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Oven

Beat butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.

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Butter

Sugar

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Stand Mixer

Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.

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Egg Yolk

Stir together apple pie spice and 2 3/4 cups flour in a medium bowl; stir together buttermilk and baking soda in a small bowl.

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Apple Pie Spice

Baking Soda

Buttermilk

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.

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Buttermilk

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Stir together pecans and remaining 1/4 cup flour. Fold pecan mixture and apple butter into batter.

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Apple Butter

Pecans

All Purpose Flour

Beat egg whites at high speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Stir about one-third of egg whites into batter; fold in remaining egg whites.

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Egg Whites

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Hand Mixer

Divide cake batter among prepared pans, spreading with an offset spatula.

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Offset Spatula

Bake at 350 for 7 minutes; rotate pans from top rack to bottom rack.

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Oven

Bake 7 to 9 more minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Oven

Remove cake layers from oven, and brush each with 2 to 3 Tbsp. warm Apple Cider Glaze. (Reserve remaining glaze.) Cool cake layers in pans on wire racks 10 minutes.

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Apple Cider

Glaze

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Oven

Remove from pans to wire racks; discard parchment paper. Cool completely (about 30 minutes).

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Baking Paper

Place 1 layer, glaze-side up, on serving platter. Top with 1 1/2 cups filling. Repeat with remaining layers and filling. Top last layer with any remaining filling, and drizzle cake with desired amount of reserved Apple Cider Glaze.

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Apple Cider

Glaze