Stack Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar or 1 c. sugar and 1 c. molasses
5 to 6 c. biscuit flour (enough to make a soft dough)
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. nutmeg or ginger
2 c. dried apples, cooked and cooled to room temperature (3 commercial pkg; apple butter can be used instead)
1 c. buttermilk
1/2 c. shortening
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Sift together dry ingredients except sugar and spices.
Cream together sugar, eggs, buttermilk, shortening, vanilla and spices. Gently combine creamed and dry ingredients using a fork.
Batter will resemble biscuit dough.
Set aside 1/2.
Grease and flour 4 (9-inch) cake pans.
Divide each half a second time.
Put each quarter of dough into cake pan and bake in oven preheated to 350\u00b0 until golden brown, if made with molasses, or light brown if not, about 20 minutes.
Layers will be thin.
Remove cake layers from pans.
Put cooked apples between each layer.