The kitchen was made for experimentation, so what better place to start than with cake?
A mix-and-match combination like this can be further customized by garnishing—for example, a generous smear of creamy peanut butter in the middle of a two-layer devil's food cake that's paired with aIt's not just the finish and frosting that can be swapped in and out of the equation. The cakes themselves can be scaled into single layers for reconfiguring into new combinations, as in this Neapolitan cake of vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate layers.
This kind of dessert is admittedly a lot more work than a layer cake of a single flavor, but sometimes it's fun to flex those culinary chops and exercise a bit of creativity—whether for the personal sense of accomplishment alone, or to fulfill a craving of your own or that of a loved one on a special occasion.
It's the nature of cookbooks and blogs to present recipes in the context of a whole, complete dessert, but as bakers, we should remember that those ideas and images are serving suggestions at best, concepts we can strip down for parts.
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