layer cake

noun

chiefly US
: a cake made of more than one layer

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This moist, fluffy layer cake was always the highlight of springtime gatherings and Easter Sundays. Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025 This mattress is essentially a six-layer cake. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025 An architectural layer cake of Uruk’s economy, religion, and scholarship, the Eanna district housed temples built alongside and on top of one another, beginning with the earliest monumental architecture of the fourth millennium BCE. Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025 The children bake a seven-layer cake, which is six more layers than this story has. Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for layer cake

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“Layer cake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/layer%20cake. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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