How to Make an American Layer Cake

One of a unique collection of seventeen beautifully hardbound, single-topic cookbooks from the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine with a reputation for fanatical kitchen testing of recipes, ingredients, equipment and culinary techniques. In each slim volume, months of testing are pared down into simple advice on which methods work best to cook the foods everyone loves most. In this volume: Learn the basics of layer cakes, then use our foolproof techniques for filling, frosting and decorating.