layer cake

American  

noun

1. a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.

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layer cake British  

noun

1. a cake made in layers with a filling

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Etymology

Origin of layer cake

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Much like the vertical layer cake, this is a challenge that is really based on timing and temperature control.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2023

Kicking off with cake week, the fresh contestants were tasked with baking a vertical layer cake and a chocolate cake in the technical challenge, before a sponge showstopper.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023

There’s the London Fog layer cake at Deep Sea Sugar & Salt, so irresistible I once ate a towering slice with my hands at a bus stop.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Today the primary semiconductor in a new smartphone has between 10 and 20 billion transistors, each about the size of a virus, carved like a layer cake into the structure of the silicon.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2023

I get home that evening, and Ma’s baked a chocolate layer cake to celebrate—a real cake, too, not no Betty Crocker.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor