It's time to venture beyond vanilla and chocolate and take your baking skills up a notch. We're talking layers—two, three, four, or more!

Create sky-high, bakery-quality treats at home with Tessa Huff's 150 innovative recipes, which combine new and exciting flavors of cake, fillings, and frostings—everything from pink peppercorn cherry to bourbon butterscotch, and pumpkin vanilla chai to riesling rhubarb and raspberry chocolate stout. Including contemporary baking methods and industry tips and tricks, Layered covers every decorating technique you'll ever need with simple instructions and gorgeous step-by-step photos that speak to bakers of every skill level—and to anyone who wants to transform dessert into layer upon layer of edible art.

Tessa Huff is a trained pastry chef, recipe developer, and food stylist and photographer for brands including Better Homes and Gardens, The Kitchn, Brit + Co, and The Cake Blog. Her work has appeared online and in print at Food52, Pottery Barn Kids, Cooking Channel TV, Cake Masters Magazine, BuzzFeed, Yahoo Food, and Babble. Huff was named one of Better Homes and Gardens’ 2014 Best Baking Bloggers for her blog, Style Sweet CA.