When it comes to homemade sweets, most any Southern hostess will agree it’s hard to top a soaring cake, stacked with layers and spread with scrumptious fillings. As Alisa Huntsman and Peter Wynne write in their cookbook, Sky High, any baked good is an edible wonder, but “cakes, especially, amuse us . . . and if a simple layer cake is one of the loveliest, most enticing desserts to set before a loved one or guest, how much more entertaining the drama of one that is three stories high.”
Thus, Alisa—the pastry chef at Nashville’s famous Loveless Café—and her journalist uncle, Peter, coauthored this sweet compilation that sets the sky as the limit. With triple layers as their sole measure, the recipes range widely from traditional to creative. The Fabulous…
