The Alabama woman whose old-fashioned, seven-layer cakes became a Southern institution has died at the age of 89. “Miss Dean, the Cake Lady,” Wilma Dean Jacobs, died last week at her home in Andalusia ...

To prepare the layer cake, first make the 3 bases. In a bowl, pour the flour, sifted baking powder (1), a pinch of salt (2), and mix (3). In another large bowl, add the butter in pieces (at room ...