1.   At neighborhood Halloween carnivals, cupcakes and layer cakes decorated with Halloween designs, coconut, confetti sprinkles and miniature candies are money-makers.

2.   Beth Jobe would like a recipe for a layer cake made with candied orange slices.

3.   Claudia Fleming, the pastry chef at Gramercy Tavern, serves layer cakes, but only when she must.

4.   Constructing a basketball team is more akin to concocting a nice salad or stew than it is slapping together a layer cake.

5.   Double the frosting recipe for a layer cake.

6.   For dessert, a big piece of chocolate layer cake was worth the price of the ticket.

7.   Gidget Erwin e-mailed to ask for a Chocolate sour cream layer cake that has sour cream in both the cake and the frosting.

8.   I tried zucchini and blueberry quick breads, which have heavy batters, as well as layer cakes made with different densities of batter.

9.   Hughes said his move, which involved slicing the house into a top half and a bottom half, like a layer cake, was hard on his nerves.

10.   Like most major American cities, Boston is like a layer cake.