Apple Pie Layer Cake

Name: Apple Pie Layer Cake
Yield: makes 1 (6-inch) layer cake, 5 to 6 inches tall; serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1 recipe Barely Brown Butter Cake (recipe follows); 1 recipe Apple Cider Soak (recipe follows); 1 recipe Liquid Cheesecake (page 149); 1/2 recipe Pie Crumb (page 79); 1 recipe Apple Pie Filling (recipe follows); 1/2 recipe Pie Crumb Frosting (recipe follows); 1 (6-inch) cake ring; 2 strips acetate, each 3 inches wide and 20 inches long

December 14, 2011

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Photo by Chelsea Kyle

When we opened Ko, we did so with a deep-fried apple pie. It resonated so much with people that we decided to use the apple pie as inspiration for a cake. We already had the crumb-into-ganache-into-frosting down and we loved the pie crumb we had developed for a few Noodle Bar and Ko desserts seasons before. This cake will make you seem like a genius, though all you are doing is layering apple pie fixins between layers of slightly nutty (with brown butter) cake. Leftovers make especially delicious impromptu cake truffles (see page 122).

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