The cake is simply a modest little vehicle for the frosting. The frosting is the true show stopper here! It’s the Beyonce. No points for me.Īnywho, the cake is lightly sweetened and for good reason. Making the traditional moist and dense cake recipe used in a Southern Little Layer Cake was a piece of cake! Ha, get it? Cake!… Ok, I’ll stop smiling. That sure makes it easy! I’ve made this cake several times since then and this is the recipe I prefer! I tried to keep the recipe as traditional as possible, only adding small tweaks like replacing half the butter with butter-flavored shortening (for a moister texture and more buttery flavor), and upping the vanilla extract. Most of the recipes were the same or very similar. Needless to say, I was super excited to take this on! It’s not every day that I come across a traditional Southern recipe that I’ve never tried! Then I search through about 10 different recipes from my old cookbook and recipe clippings collection. Ok, so how the heck do you make an old-fashioned Southern Little Layer Cake? I wanted a real, authentic recipe that would make me feel like I was in a Southern Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina grandmother’s floral wall-papered kitchen!īefore I attempted this cake I read every single blog post there was on this hunk of layered sin. I couldn’t make my way down to Alabama to snag an authentic Little Layer Cake but I had the next best things: The INTERNET, LOTS OF SOUTHERN “GOLDEN” LADIES IN MY FAMILY and OLD COOKBOOKS! It’s been known to reach over 20 layers (lordt have mercy). Southern Little Layer Cake is a true old-fashioned creation and every family usually have their signature recipe (or so I’m told). Hey as much as I love a good Southern food debate, (aka sugar in grits or nah?) I’m not going there! I’m just here for the cake! And if you do a little googling you’ll discover that North Carolina has it’s own version as well. Although some folks say it was being made in Georgia way before Alabama claimed it. The Little Layer Cake originates from Alabama. Usually, it was a 5-Layer Cake or an 8-Layer Cake. It was simply called a (insert however many layers you have) Layer Cake.
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I’m from North Carolina and I didn’t grow up on this cake by this name. It should be right up there with Minnie’s Chocolate Pie and Caramel cake. Visual Learner? Watch me make this Southern Little Layer Cake from start to finish!Īhhh the Southern Little Layer Cake…have you ever heard of such a thing? I feel like this cake could have stepped right out “The Help” movie. Moist and tender Southern Little Layer Cake with traditional boiled chocolate frosting!