14 layer cake recipes

14 layer cakes to impress your guests

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The Gourmet Traveller 50th birthday cake: Ginger whiskey cake with burnt white chocolate ganache

William Meppem

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

Christina Tosi’s carrot layer cake

Christina Tosi’s carrot layer cake

Matcha layer cake with white chocolate cream

Matcha layer cake with white chocolate cream

Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache

Salted chocolate layer cake with whipped ganache

Brooklyn blackout cake

Brooklyn blackout cake

Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake

Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake

Coconut and berry layer cake

Coconut and berry layer cake

Orange custard cream layer cake

Orange custard cream layer cake

Chocolate raspberry layer cake

Chocolate raspberry layer cake

Strawberry, yoghurt and pistachio layer cake

Strawberry, yoghurt and pistachio layer cake

Raspberry and coconut layer cake

Raspberry and coconut layer cake

Strawberry layer cake

Strawberry layer cake

The Gourmet Traveller 50th birthday cake: Ginger whiskey cake with burnt white chocolate ganache

The Gourmet Traveller 50th birthday cake: Ginger whiskey cake with burnt white chocolate ganache

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