The most elaborate cakes you can bake tend to have multiple tiers, the better to show off elaborate decorations as well as incorporate different flavors. Before you start piling up the layers, though, ...

Multiple layers of thin cake — resembling something like a spongy gingerbread or molasses cookie — stack up with sweet apple filling. The cake has even more names than layers — Appalachian stack cake, ...

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 ...