layer cake

a cake made in layers, with a cream, jelly, or other filling between them.

Origin of layer cake

First recorded in 1875–80

Bake in two layer-cake pans, fitted with waxed paper, in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband |Louise Bennett Weaver
Pour the mixture into two layer-cake pans prepared with waxed paper.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband |Louise Bennett Weaver
In front of this is a layer-cake pan with a removable bottom.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 |Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Mercy was as hungry for lessons as Heavy Stone was for layer-cake and macaroons.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island |Alice Emerson

Pour into two layer-cake pans which have been prepared with waxed paper.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband |Louise Bennett Weaver

layer cake

a cake made in layers with a filling