Abstract:
Describing five iconic cakes, Castle takes readers on a sweet trip from the mountains to the coast. Each tells a bit of the history of the region where it's prepared. They are the Dried Apple Stack Cake (Blue Ridge Mountains, Black Walnut Pound Cake with Old-Fashioned Penuche Frosting (Mountains and Foothills), Cheerwine Pound Cake (Piedmont), Muscadine Cake (Central NC, Sandhills, Coastal Plain, and Outer Banks), Fig Preserve Cake (Outer Banks).