layer cake
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- noun
- /ˈleɪər keɪk/
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- The bakery specializes in beautiful layer cakes that are perfect for weddings and special occasions.
- chocolate layer cake
- strawberry layer cake
- moist layer cake
Examples
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For her birthday, I baked a delicious layer cake with rich chocolate frosting and fresh strawberries between the layers.
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I was planning on doing a traditional rainbow layer cake for my school's Gay-Straight Alliance bake sale fundraiser, but when my friend showed me this recipe,
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One cake on top of the other is a layer cake; pretty standard stuff.
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A big cake, like a chocolate layer cake.
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Yes, it's called a layer cake, and pretty much any cake you buy at a grocery store is constructed in the same manner.
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I found some double-chocolate layer cake and pudding, too!
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I'm going to have a triple layer cake, with purple frosting.
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Finally, Mother came out of the kitchen bearing a three-layer cake with boiled icing.
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When the women had finished, Mary got up, went around to the counter, and came back with three slices of layer cake: maple, lemon, and chocolate.
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I'm about to dig into a nice slice of chocolate layer cake that the Tuckett sisters dropped off (the other half was delivered to Theodore).
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
A light cake made from two sponge layers sandwiched with jam and usually cream
A light sponge cake with two thin layers and jam between them, usually sprinkled with sugar
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Morphology
The meaning 'a cake made of two or more stacked layers' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'layer' (a stratum) + 'cake' (a baked sweet). This compound follows a regular noun+noun pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Layer cake comes from the simple picture of thin cakes stacked on top of each other with sweet filling between the layers. That's why the name means 'a cake made of two or more stacked parts'.