FARGO - Valentine's Day changes as your children grow up. I miss the days when we'd go out and buy cards for every kid in their class. We'd spend time carefully Scotch-taping a Dum Dums lollipop or ...

Making Apple Stack Cake has been a holiday tradition for my family and for many other mountain people for generations, and is ...

— This dense, rich cake from Joan Aller’s forthcoming cookbook, “Cider Beans, Wild Greens and Dandelion Jelly” (a collection of recipes from southern Appalachia due out in June), is remarkably easy to ...

Cook time: Depends on how big you want your stack. This recipe makes one 9-inch cake with six stacks. Three stacks were baked simultaneously for 10 to 12 minutes The filling (recipe below) takes about ...

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, ...

Apple stack cake is a traditional Southern Appalachian food whose purpose has changed over the years. “The story goes that the cakes were served as wedding cakes,” said Norma Idom, a volunteer ...

The following excerpt is taken from The Southerner’s Cookbook: Recipes, Wisdom, and Stories by David DiBenedetto and the editors of Garden & Gun. The new cookbook, which goes on sale October 27, is by ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The door to the log cabin kept opening and closing. Ashley English walked in first. Her 2-year-old toddler was a mad man, said the harried mother of two, shutting the door behind her ...

At Stack’d Cake Studio, the customer directs how they want their cake built, much as they would a sub at a sandwich shop. But instead of provolone or Swiss on rye or wheat, they have a menu of sweet ...

Note: In Southern Appalachia, the number of cake layers — in this case six — is considered a measure of the host’s popularity. 1/2 cup all-vegetable shortening 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/3 cup ...