Lekach is a honey-sweetened spiced cake, typically loaf-shaped, made with honey, warm spices — cinnamon, ginger, cloves — oil rather than butter, and often coffee or tea for depth of color and flavor. The crumb is dense and moist, closer to a quick bread than a layer cake, and the cake improves with a day […]

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Apple stack cake is built from thin rounds of stiff, sorghum-sweetened dough — closer to a firm cookie or shortbread than a conventional cake layer — stacked with a filling of spiced, reconstituted dried apples spread between each one. The layers are baked separately, usually in a cast iron skillet, then assembled and left to […]

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