How To Make Sean's Grandma's Apple Stack Cake - Best Recipe | Charleston Magazine

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb. soft unsalted butter (for greasing the pans)
• 4 tsp. ground ginger
• 2 tsp. allspice
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 9 cups self-rising flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 1½ cups canola oil, (Sean’s grandmother used shortening, but says lard would be tasty as well)
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 cups real sorghum, not molasses
• 6 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 9 cups apple butter (recipe follows)
• Whiskey sorghum glaze (recipe follows)
• 12 cups chopped, cored, unpeeled Pippin apples, or substitute Granny Smiths
• 3/4 cup apple cider
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tsp. ground ginger
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup rye whiskey or bourbon
• 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
• 1/4 lb. unsalted butter, diced
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract