Cranberry-Pear Stack Cake

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2016

Ripe pears, tart cranberries, and buttery cake layers make this a great American cake a showstopper.

SERVES 8 to 12

TIME 3 hours, plus 4 hours cooling

Cranberry-Pear Stack Cake

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We made sure that enough of the pear juice was cooked off so that the filling didn’t ooze out. The natural thickening power of cooked cranberries helped, too, but using ripe but firm pears was important so that they were not too juicy from ...

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