layer cake

noun

chiefly US
: a cake made of more than one layer

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Espiritu Santo is a geological layer cake carved with countless small anchorages, beloved by sailors and fishing enthusiasts. The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025 This icebox cake looks as impressive as a classic Southern layer cake, but doesn't require turning on the oven. Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 June 2025 So what can hundreds of thousands of years of animal bones stacked atop one another in this evolutionary layer cake tell us about life on Earth? Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025 But yeah, that's the Hummingbird cake, a banana, pineapple layer cake with lots of cream cheese frosting and pecans. Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for layer cake

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