How to Use layer cake in a Sentence

layer cake

noun
Definition of layer cakenext
  • This lovely layer cake will be the belle of the ball at any spring soiree.
    — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Make one layer cake for the hen, then make cupcakes for her head and tail.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Ganache serves as a silky, rich filling in this stunning layer cake.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Joy is like a layer cake Much of our culture frames joy as something to be earned, Lee argues.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • Get the recipe: Sheet Pan Quesadilla Even a layer cake comes together faster and easier with the help of a sheet pan.
    — Olga Massov, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Combining the companies’ acreage would allow the group to drill longer wells to reach deeper into the layer cake of shale resources in the basin.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • So the researchers made a special light-trapping lattice structure that looks like a layer cake.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2023
  • Todd’s single layer cake originates from over a decade ago.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • Serve these squares up on Easter Sunday to save yourself time and effort stacking and frosting a layer cake.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Secrets are shared and betrayed, resentments simmer and boil, and the result is a layer cake of life as it’s really lived.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In some places, the layers are so well preserved that researchers can see evidence of multiple tsunamis stacked on top of each other like a layer cake.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This layer cake will be quite the centerpiece for your food lineup on Independence Day.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 24 June 2023
  • Starting with boxed cake mix is the time-saving hack that leaves you with plenty of time to spend making the real star of this layer cake: homemade Italian meringue buttercream.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 30 May 2024
  • Growing up, a tall, fluffy-looking coconut layer cake, encrusted with snow-white shreds, defined the holiday for me.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Some studies suggest multiple seas, stacked together in a layer cake of ice sheets and oceans, hide underground.
    — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Add this frosting to your favorite layer cake or crumbling cupcakes for an extra flavor profile.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There’s a no-mixer cake for the beginner baker, an ambitious dome cake for the pastry pro, a chocolaty layer cake for your gluten-free friend, and a dairy-free number for your vegan cousin.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Why not expand their ornament collection with this white layer cake?
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Succulent mouthful of a layer cake of flavors—brownies, candy cane, red licorice and cranberry juice.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The ambitious bakery and cafe sells sourdough breads made with natural grains, and seasonal pastries such as an adzuki bean paste tart and an Earl Grey and bergamot layer cake.
    — Gisela Williams, New York Times, 21 Apr. 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.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • This isn’t Christina Tosi’s dessert spot, but the famed Kyiv bakery and breakfast brand, which was already fulfilling takeaway orders for its signature Kyiv layer cake, a stack of hazelnut sponge cake and praline cream.
    — Adam Robb, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Instead the world is a layer cake of determinism and indeterminism.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • This confetti layer cake boasts three layers of festive sponge cake—learn our top tip for upgrading your boxed cake mix here—sealed in with a sophisticated Vanilla-Sour Cream Frosting.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The recycling concern is interesting and complex but relates to the fact that vegan leather is often a layer cake of materials from a foundation of cotton mesh bonded with glues to plastic.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Visible new construction is just the icing on a century-old subterranean layer cake of infrastructure.
    — Curbed, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Consider the case of supercars that incorporate carbon-fiber tubs, visible carbon-fiber skins (which are book matched), and the layer cake of exclusive materials and finishes that make putting Humpty Dumpty back together again a daunting task indeed.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 July 2023

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