4,743 cafe cake recipes

A simple three-ingredient cheesecake crust starter: flour, sugar, and chopped nuts. The foundation for nutty, buttery cheesecake bases without relying on graham crackers or cookies.

Southern fig preserve cake baked in a tube pan with warm spices, buttermilk, chopped pecans, and a generous swirl of fig jam, finished with a buttermilk glaze.

Pastry cheesecake crust with butter, sugar, egg, and flour. A sturdier, cookie-like base for springform cheesecakes when graham crumbs feel too crumbly.

Chocolate Cream Strawberry Shortcake with Ricotta Filling recipe

Part 1 of a caramel rum ice cream cake: homemade caramel sauce and a cream cheese cake base spiked with dark rum. Boozy, rich, and built in stages for a showstopper dessert.

Krumkaker are Norwegian curled cookies pressed thin in a special iron, then rolled into cones around a wooden spoon handle while still hot. Traditional Scandinavian holiday treat.

Sweet onion and ricotta cheesecake with cranberries and sage!

Traditional fruitcake studded with dates, figs, candied citron, pecans, and brandy-soaked fruits becomes a family heirloom recipe worth making.

Rich chocolate truffle cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust, served over a creamy raspberry sauce. Melted chocolate chips baked right into the filling for intense truffle flavor.

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.

Traditional English Banbury cake made with yeasted dough, currants, and warm spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and mace. A rich, buttery spiced cake from Oxfordshire.

Crab cakes with tomatillo salsa bind lump crabmeat with bread and egg white for a light crust, pan-seared and topped with tangy diced tomatillo-lime salsa. Southwest-style seafood dinner.

Double chocolate layer cheesecake: a chocolate cream cheese layer on the bottom and a vanilla cream cheese layer on top, all in a chocolate cookie crust.

An intensely dark chocolate sheet cake made with strong black coffee and buttermilk, topped with a rich "Hundred Dollar Frosting" of melted chocolate, butter, walnuts, and a surprising touch of lemon juice.

Red and black raspberry pudding cake with fresh and frozen berries simmered into syrup and spooned over a buttery cake batter. The berries sink while baking, creating a soft pudding-cake top.

Creamy chocolate cheesecake with a salty pretzel crust, dense cocoa filling, and a tang of sour cream. The sweet-salty dessert that disappears at every potluck.