From 1 layer to 3: lemon poppy sheet-pan cake

Sheet pan week continues with a recipe from Molly Gilbert's "Sheet Pan Sweets"

Hello! Hello!

The next time you hear from me, I’ll be saying “Bonjour! Bonjour!” I fly home to Paris tomorrow and, of course, I’m excited. I’ll be there for about six weeks, so if there’s something you’d like me to check out, let me know. If I can, I will. If not … next time. I keep lists of places to go/to see/to do/to eat (especially things to eat and places to eat them) and it would be fun for me to know your favorites.

For now, I’m still in Connecticut and, as promised when I sent you Melissa Clark’s “tagine,” I’ve got another sheet pan recipe. It’s just as surprising as Melissa’s, but this one’s sweet. It’s the Lemon Poppy Seed Cake from Molly Gilbert’s new book, Sheet Pan Sweets. Not only is it such a delicious cake, it’s such a good idea to bake a sheet cake and turn it into a layer cake!

THE BOOK

Call Molly Gilbert a sheet-pan pioneer. She wrote her first cookbook, Sheet Pan Suppers, a decade ago, when sheet pan cooking was commonplace for every chef and when we home cooks were ju…