21 Layer Cake Recipes From Chocolate to Lemon Poppy Seed. Whether you stack together two cake layers or six, bringing any one of these showstopping cakes to the table is an act of pure joy.

Southern cake bakers are a breed apart. ... brown-sugar aroma, velvety yellow cake layers and creamy caramel frosting. It's an old recipe, says Reutter, who now lives in Annapolis, ...

Recipe: Proof Bakery’s chocolate espresso layer cake. There is a certain irony operating here. Ma, a Glendale native who opened Proof Bakery in 2010, is not really a cake person.

Make the cake layers: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. In a liquid measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, fresh ginger and vanilla.

The perfect coconut cake should be layered, with creamy, coconutty custard alternating with cake. Here’s a recipe. Serves 12 to 16 (makes two 8-inch cakes) This recipe calls for 8 eggs, divided ...

Minetta Tavern's Coconut Cake . Yields 1 very tall 9-inch cake, serves about 20. This recipe, adapted from the one served at Minetta Tavern, is involved, but the results are worth it.