How to make it

  • Mix milk, soda, and powder together in a large bowl.
  • Mix flour and sugar together in a separate bowl, then add crisco and blend.
  • Add eggs and milk mixture.
  • Knead dough together with hands, using additional flour if sticky. Once it is a uniform texture, separate into three small pie pans. You should have three good-sized cakes from the recipe.
  • Bake @ 300 degrees for 55-65 minutes. Let cool and serve with coffee, milk, or as dessert. Enjoy!!!

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  • Kellyko109 3 years ago
    Dashi. Nope, not even close!!!

    Veganess, here you go! :)

    FUN FACT. I grew up eating this cake like thing my whole life. I always thought they were Dutch since my grandmom always had them in the house. After I moved to Lancaster County, I realize that they would not Dutch at all. I also realized that no one ever heard of them outside of our little community. One of the Mennonite moms groups I went to was having a bruncheon. We all needed to bring something that nobody else knew what it was, so I decided to bring Apee cakes. But we also needed to give a background of where it originated so when I ask my grandmother where they originated, she said "I don't know. I just make them and eat them." LOL Luckily for me we had the internet in 2005 and I looked them up. What I found was a huge surprise to me.

    These delicious little cakes where first made in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apparently Philadelphia has long enjoyed the reputation of these peculiar little cakes. Thousands of people eat them but nobody knows where they came from. In other areas of the world they are never heard of at all. They came to be because of a lady by the name of Ann Page, who lived in a small frame house two doors north of Cantors Alley on 2nd Street. Although she no longer lives there, she is the one who started making them many years ago. Back then she just called them "cakes". She would make them and share them with her friends over a cup of coffee. Eventually, her friends, neighbors and others got wind of them. They started wanting her to make them...so she did. She started to be funny putting the letters AP on the top (which of course with the initials of her name) and ever since then they've been known as a AP cakes.
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  • Dashi 7 years ago
    It used to be baked in a pie tin, so it was called "a pie cake". Over time the name became run together as "apie cake" on the wrapped cakes for sale at farmers' markets, so it was soon pronounced AY-pee cake --finally shortened to AP cake.
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  • veganess 14 years ago
    Does anyone know why it's called "ap" cake?
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  • dekalb 15 years ago
    You can also use 1 c sugar and 1 c brown sugar instead of 2 c brown sugar. It makes it not quite a hard but still very good.
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  • tnacndn 16 years ago
    This sounds yummy!
    ~Gem~
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  • bethidooo 16 years ago
    Oh, and I always like to sprinkle white sugar on the top before sticking it in the oven... just for a little extra crunch when it's done!
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