Lemon Layer Cake
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV
We carefully deconstructed this blue-ribbon recipe to create a light and lemony dessert.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
Most layer cake recipes are made with hefty butter cake layers, but we suspected that the light, fresh flavor of lemon would be better served by something more ethereal. After trying recipes for sponge cake and classic yellow cake, we found...