19 american cake recipes

Great cake is an old-fashioned colonial American pound cake loaded with currants, candied citron, and rosewater. A Martha Washington-era recipe that's dense, buttery, and built for special occasions.

Chocolate-marshmallow cake is a light cocoa sponge baked in a jelly roll pan and topped with billowy marshmallow frosting. An old-fashioned American layer cake with the feel of a campfire s'more.

Election Day cake, a historic New England yeast-raised spice cake studded with raisins, citron and nuts, warmed with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and mace, and glazed with confectioners' sugar. A colonial American tradition.