Layer cake
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- For other uses of the term see Layer Cake
A layer cake is a cake consisting of multiple layers, usually held together by frosting or another type of filling.
In the mid-19th century, modern cakes were developed. One of the first recipes for layer cakes was published in Cassell's New Universal Cookery Book, published in London in 1894.
The layer cake is more ancient than most people realize. In Ukraine and Russia, people still make these cakes in the old traditional way. The cake batter is baked in a frying pan in thin layers, about a centimeter thick in the finished stack. These layers are then covered with a thin layer or cream and/or jam and stacked 7 or 8 layers high. This stack, which is the same height as the typical Western layer cake, is then frosted so that the structure is not visible. To the untrained eye, these cakes look much like an Austrian konditorei style cake such as the Black Forest cake. The photo below shows vendors selling such cakes by the slice on the beach in Koktebel, Crimea, Ukraine.
[edit] Other meanings
The term also refers to a type of boosted fission Soviet nuclear weapon design originally developed by the nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov, referred to as Sloika. See Joe 4 for an article regarding a Russian nuclear test using this design.
Additionally, the term is used figuratively for denoting a diagram in which the levels are stacked on top of each other. The OSI model is one familiar example of this.
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