APPLE-GINGER STACK CAKE

APPLE-GINGER STACK CAKE image

Yield 12 people

Number Of Ingredients 19

1 c whole-wheat pastry flour
3/4 cup cake flour
3/4 c sugar
1 t ground cinnamon
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
3/4 c nonfat buttermilk
1/2 c molasses
1/4 c veg oil
1 large egg
2 large egg whites
2 T minced fresh ginger
2 apples, 1 red, 1 green, thinly sliced
Apple Filling:
5 c sweet cider
4 c dried apples, coarsely chopped
1/2 c sugar
1/2 t ground cinnamon

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Coat 3 8-in round cake pans wtih cooking spray, and line with parchment paper circles. Spray circles with cooking spray. 2. To make cake: Whisk together pastry flour, cake flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in bowl. Whisk together buttermilk and molasses in separate bowl. Whisk oil, egg, egg whites, and ginger into buttermilk mixture. Fol buttermilk mixture into flour mixture until just combined. Divide batter among prepared pans, and bake 20 min., or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans 5 min, then cool on wire racks. 3. To make filling: Bring all ingredients to a boil in saucepan over medium heat. Simmer 1 hr, or until apples are jammy and a little syrup remainds in pan, stirring occasionally. Cool. 4. Place one cake layer on serving plate. Spread iwth half of apple filling. Repeat process with second cake layer and top with third layer. wrap cake in wax paper and then foil to seal, and refrigerate 6 hrs or overnight. 5. Arrange alternating red nad green apple slices in a pinwheel flower pattern on top of cake, then dust top of cake with confectioners' sugar.