14 layer cake recipes | Gourmet Traveller

Layers of sponge cake, generous smotherings of cream, and a drizzle of something syrupy, perhaps? It must be a layer cake, and it only goes up from here.

Plus, pastry chef Catherine Adams shows how to make a high-rise vanilla-rose layer cake, step by step.

Fudgy chocolate-cherry cake

Fudgy chocolate-cherry cake

Salted caramel layer cake

Salted caramel layer cake

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Raspberry and coconut layer cake

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