944 better cake recipes

Crispy Japanese shrimp and vegetable tempura fried in a light, lacy cake flour batter. Served with a homemade tentsuyu dipping sauce with grated daikon, this is the real deal from scratch.

Black chocolate cake made with a boiled chocolate-milk-sugar syrup folded into a simple butter batter. Dense, fudgy, and baked in a single 9x13 pan.

Rich bittersweet chocolate cake that makes its own mousse-like frosting from the same batter. Just 8 ingredients, no mixer tricks, and it keeps in the fridge for days.

Apple snacking cake with tart chopped apples, semi-sweet chocolate chips, and nuts, using apple juice in the batter for extra apple flavor. No frosting, dusted with powdered sugar.

Hot fudge pudding cake that bakes its own chocolate sauce underneath. A vintage one-pan dessert where cocoa batter and a sugar-cocoa sauce magically separate in the oven.

Old-fashioned date and pecan cake baked low and slow in a tube pan. More fruit and nuts than batter, with a dense, rich texture similar to fruitcake.

Mashed ripe bananas swirl through vanilla cake batter with cinnamon-almond streusel in this bundt-style brunch coffeecake. Dust with powdered sugar for an elegant finish.

Blueberry Boy Bait is a vintage coffee cake with a buttery crumb topping, tender whipped-egg batter, and fresh blueberries. The 1954 Pillsbury Bake-Off classic.

Tomato ginger upside-down cake with fresh grated ginger, molasses, brown sugar, and sliced tomatoes baked under a spiced buttermilk batter. Serve warm with whipped cream.

Berkshire fruit cake packed with raisins, currants, and citron in a spiced molasses batter with cinnamon, cloves, and mace. Baked low and slow for 4.5 hours.

Whole wheat batter bakes up around juicy peaches and plump blueberries in this cast-iron skillet cobbler with golden edges and fruit bubbling through tender cake.

Chocolate apricot upside-down cake with a caramelized brown sugar base, tender apricot halves, and pecans beneath a cocoa-rich batter. Served with cinnamon whipped cream.

A fat-free marbled sponge cake with swirled vanilla white and lemon-yellow batters baked in a tube pan. Feather-light and elegant for any occasion.

Two-tone sheet cake with a vanilla cream cheese batter and Hershey's chocolate syrup topping baked together for a marbled, fudgy finish using egg whites only.

Praline ice cream cake bakes softened vanilla ice cream right into a graham-cracker crumb batter, then finishes with sour cream caramel topping and chopped pecans.

Sour cream coffee cake loaded with mini chocolate chips in the batter and a brown sugar streusel topping. Tender, rich crumb that stays moist for days.