4,613 cafe cake recipes

Quick peanut butter cookies from a yellow cake mix, peanut butter, egg, and water. Four ingredients, no mixer needed, with that classic fork-pressed crosshatch pattern.

My hubby has been after me for years to come up with a gluten free recipe for granola. Up until now I have just done the same thing with that suggestion as I do with suggestions regarding how I should wear my hair – ignored it.

Genoise mousseline is a classic French sponge cake made with whole eggs, extra yolks, and no butter, warmed over a bain-marie and whipped to airy volume for a tender crumb.

Spiced pecan drop biscuits with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice, loaded with chopped pecans and raisins. Buttermilk biscuits with a warm holiday spice profile.

Komish broit is a Jewish twice-baked cookie similar to Italian biscotti, made with matzo meal, potato starch, and chocolate chips. Crisp diagonal slices rolled in cinnamon sugar.

Homemade fortune cookies: thin crisp wafers cooked on a skillet, folded around your own paper fortunes while still pliable. A party project for Lunar New Year or kids' birthdays.

Mandel rolls (mandelbrot) made with cake meal, matzo meal, potato starch, and chopped nuts. Twice-baked Jewish biscotti that are crisp, cinnamon-spiced, and Passover-friendly.

A 6-ingredient blueberry dump cake layered with crushed pineapple, white cake mix, and walnuts. No mixing, no bowls. Just layer everything in the pan, drizzle with butter, and bake.

Four-ingredient peanut butter cookies made with yellow cake mix, egg whites, and water. Light, puffy, and ready in under 30 minutes with no butter or oil.

Classic New York black and white cookies with soft, cakey rounds frosted half in vanilla fondant and half in chocolate. Bakery-style cookies made with cake flour for that signature pillowy texture.

Three layers of angel food cake filled and frosted with coffee-spiked chocolate pudding cream and scattered with crushed toffee bars. A retro torte that uses smart shortcuts.

Poppy seed snack bread is a shortcut quick bread built on white cake mix and coconut instant pudding, studded with poppy seeds. Two loaves in one bowl, mixed in under 5 minutes.

Halvah shortbread made with tahini and butter creamed together with brown sugar and cake flour, studded with toasted pecans and cut into wedges.

Melt-in-your-mouth potato muffins: tender yeast-raised rolls with mashed potatoes folded in, brushed with butter and dusted with powdered sugar. An old-fashioned tearoom treat.

Try this scrumptious pudding made with cake flour, cornstarch and a pinch of nutmeg.

Poke-style chocolate brownies soaked with condensed milk and chocolate syrup, topped with crushed walnuts and chocolate whipped cream. A fudgy, no-fuss crowd pleaser.