Bring a new creativity and excitement to your baking by adding surprising new levels of flavors and textures to your cakes.

Make your cakes exciting again with hidden layers of brownie, cookie, mousse, pudding, fruit and so much more.

Secret-Layer Cakes takes your favorite dessert flavors and combines them with delicious added texture to impress any crowd. All have a hidden middle or bottom layer that will delight any dessert enthusiast, like blueberry cheesecake with a surprise lemon blondie layer, black forest mousse cake with a surprise layer of sour cherries, and maple cheesecake with a hidden bacon brittle layer. Because why should you have to choose between pumpkin cheesecake and decadent brownies? With these recipes, you can have both.

With 60 recipes for desserts made new again, your cakes will rise above the rest no matter the occasion.

Dini Kodippili is the recipe developer, food photographer and writer behind the blog The Flavor Bender. Her recipes have been featured online by Food & Wine magazine.

“A top-of-list winner.” —Parade, 13 Cookbooks for Your Favorite Foodies

“If you are a fan of creative and delicious flavor and texture pairings, you will love Secret-Layer Cakes.” —Jenni Field, founder of Pastry Chef Online

“Dini has created a loving and delicious volume that celebrates cake in all its beauty, both inside and out. This beautiful book is necessary for anyone who believes in the pure pleasure that cake can bring.” —Jessie Moore, founder of CakeSpy

“Dini takes readers on a sweet trip around the world, combining a riot of flavors and textures into inventive and modern cakes. Bakers tired of the same old recipes will find a wealth of inspiration in this collection of fun, creative cakes.” —Elizabeth LaBau, founder of SugarHero!