5,226 butter cake recipes

Mississippi mud cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with melted unsweetened chocolate, instant pudding and a generous pour of milk. Dark, dense and impossibly moist, dusted with confectioners' sugar.

Spiced cocoa doughnuts: cake-style chocolate rings fried until light, then dusted warm with cinnamon-spiked powdered sugar. Mace and cinnamon in the dough add a soft, bakery-style aroma.

Spiced cocoa doughnuts deep-fried into cake-style rings, scented with cinnamon and mace, dusted in cinnamon-powdered sugar. Old-school bakery-counter chocolate doughnut.

New England scones with bright orange zest, sweet currants, and whole wheat flour, finished with a powdered-sugar icing drizzle. Yankee-style scones with bakery-bright flavor.

Pecan crescents, buttery melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies rich with finely chopped pecans and a hint of nutmeg, shaped into little crescents. A cornstarch-tender holiday cookie in the wedding-cookie family.

Italian cheese biscuits made with Bisquick and sharp cheddar, brushed with garlic-herb butter while hot. Drop biscuits ready in 20 minutes, like Red Lobster's famous version.

Spicy banana cake baked in a tube pan with cinnamon, cloves, raisins, and pecans. A warmly spiced, dense crumb that turns overripe bananas into something worth slicing thick.

Buttery oatmeal cookie pops on sticks, decorated with frosting, chocolate sprinkles, and gumdrops to look like little boy and girl faces. A fun baking project for kids.

Coffee coffeecake baked in a bundt pan with a marbled espresso swirl through sour cream batter, topped with a pourable espresso glaze.

Speckknödel: traditional Austrian bacon dumplings made with stale bread, cream, egg yolk, and caraway seeds, simmered and served on a bed of buttery sauerkraut.

Soft pumpkin cookies loaded with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, raisins, and walnuts. A big-batch holiday cookie with warm spice flavor in every cakey bite.

Chocolate icebox cookies slice and bake from a chilled dough log. Make-ahead, freezer-friendly slice-and-bake cookies that stay fresh for weeks before baking, perfect for holiday cookie tins.

Kahlua fudge brownies with unsweetened chocolate, walnuts, and a double hit of coffee liqueur baked in and brushed on top. Dense, boozy, intensely chocolate.

German pfeffernusse cookies spiced with cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, cloves, and nutmeg, then rolled in powdered sugar while warm. Crunchy little spice balls with a molasses backbone.

Classic ranger cookies packed with crisp rice cereal, flaked coconut, and chopped dates for triple texture in every bite. Crunchy outside, chewy middle. Bakes a batch in about 25 minutes.

Yaourtopita, a Greek yogurt cake with butter, almonds, and vanilla, lightened with whipped egg whites for an airy crumb. A traditional Greek baking gem served at room temperature.