Dried-Apple Stack Cakes

Name: Dried-Apple Stack Cakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters unfiltered apple cider; 946 milliliters ounces unsulfured dried apples; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 1 Tbsps cider vinegar; 1 large egg; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 pinch Pinch of ground cloves; 1 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 teaspoons ground mace; 6 Tbsps packed light brown sugar; 12 servings Accompaniment: lightly sweetened whipped cream; 118 milliliters molasses (not robust or blackstrap); 1 teaspoons salt; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened; 710 milliliters water; 118 milliliters whole milk

Dried-Apple Stack Cakes is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 12 servings with 311 calories, 4g of protein, and 12g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up flour, salt, cider vinegar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Simmer all filling ingredients and a pinch of salt in a 4- to 5-quart heavy pot, uncovered, stirring occasionally and mashing apples with a potato masher as they soften, until a thick purée forms, about 1 1/2 hours. Cool completely.

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Apple

Potato

Salt

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Potato Masher

Pot

Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter muffin cups.

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Butter

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Stir together milk and vinegar and let stand 10 minutes to curdle.

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Vinegar

Milk

Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, and cloves.

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Baking Soda

Clove

Ginger

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Beat butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in molasses and egg. At low speed, add flour mixture in 3 batches alternately with curdled milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture and mixing until each addition is just incorporated.

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Brown Sugar

Molasses

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Spread 1 heaping tablespoon batter in each muffin cup and bake just until a wooden pick inserted in center of a cake comes out clean with some crumbs adhering, 11 to 13 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in pans on racks, then invert onto racks to cool completely.

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Spread

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Oven

Spread about 2 tablespoons filling on top of 1 cake and invert another cake over filling, then spread a heaping tablespoon filling on top. Make 11 more stacks (you will have about 2 cups filling left over).

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Spread

Transfer to an airtight container and chill at least 2 days for flavors to develop. Bring to room temperature before serving.

·Cakes can be assembled 3 days ahead and chilled in an airtight container.·Leftover filling can be used like apple butter.

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Apple Butter