layer cake

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   cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting

   Broadercake

Questions about layer cake

What does layer cake mean?

layer cake means "cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting".

Is layer cake a common word?

layer cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.