A traditional Appalachian treat that arrived by way of Germany, recipes for stack cakes — a tower of thin biscuit-like dough layered with fruit filling — are hard to find in modern cookbooks. You ...

In Kentucky, stack cakes are common, but few people are familiar with stack pies. A recent article in the New York Times generated some buzz about this old-fashioned dessert. Times food writer Melissa ...

Stack cake is the ultimate mountaineers' dessert -- a not too sweet, but satisfying and complexly flavored dessert made of 4-6 thin layers of molasses-tinged, biscuit-like cake covered with a dark, ...

In Kentucky, stack cakes are common, but few people are familiar with stack pies. A recent article in The New York Times generated some buzz about this old-fashioned dessert. Times food writer Melissa ...