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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 35 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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Old southern family recipe handed down for years. Ingredients:
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 |
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.
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