Layer cake
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- For the novel, see Layer Cake; for the film adaptation, see Layer Cake (film)
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.
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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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