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.

SERVES 10 to 12

TIME 2 hours, plus 4 hours chilling and 1½ hours cooling

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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...

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