Mom'S Apple Stack Cake

• COOKIE LAYERS
• 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
• FILLING
• 1 (1 quart) jar applesauce, sweetened with the sugar and cinnamon
• sugar
• cinnamon

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.

cookie layers, sugar, eggs, salt, shortening, sour milk, vanilla, boiling water, baking soda, filling, jar applesauce, sugar, cinnamon

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/moms-apple-stack-cake-15152 (may not work)