layer cake

English

Etymology

From layer +‎ cake, named for its appearance, coined c. 1873.[1]

Noun

layer cake (plural layer cakes)

  1. A cake consisting of multiple stacked sheets of cake, held together by frosting or jam, etc.
    Synonyms: sandwich cake, (UK) sandwich
  2. A type of layering of materials, used in some nuclear bombs.

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  1. ^ Darra Goldstein, editor (April 2015), “layer cake”, in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 396: “One of the earliest uses of the term "layer cake" was in a section header in an 1873 Ohio community cookbook, the Presbyterian Cook Book.”
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