1,009 cafe cake recipes

Pumpkin cake made with spice cake mix and canned pumpkin, topped with a cooked flour buttercream frosting. A moist, warmly spiced fall cake with a light, fluffy homemade frosting.

Blackberry crumb bars, a buttery lemon-scented dough that doubles as crust and crumble, layered with a juicy cornstarch-thickened blackberry filling. Like portable blackberry pie, baked and cut into squares.

One-bowl devil's food cake made with melted unsweetened chocolate, buttermilk, and cake flour. Dark, moist, and mixed entirely in one bowl.

A novelty cake shaped like a giant hamburger! Golden pound cake topped with toasted sesame seeds, penuche frosting, cocoa "meat," and strawberry preserve "ketchup." A total showstopper for kids' parties.

Tender rum-soaked bundt cake made with vanilla pudding mix and toasted walnuts. The rum-butter glaze seeps into every crevice for boozy, buttery bliss at potlucks.

A layered pineapple coconut poke-style cake starting with a box mix, topped with coconut milk cream cheese pudding, crushed pineapple, whipped topping, and shredded coconut. Potluck-ready and crowd-sized.

A cake mix coffee cake with a coconut cinnamon crumb swirl running through the center and crunchy nut topping, finished with a vanilla glaze. One pan, one hour, zero fuss.

What is cake flour? The other day I ran out of cake flour and needed a substitute, after searching and experimenting I came up with this replacement for cake flour that seems to work quite well.

A showstopping bundt cake with a hidden mint cream cheese swirl inside and a drizzled chocolate-mint glaze on top. Semi-homemade with devil's food cake mix.

Bresse farmhouse chocolate cake is a French country dessert: a thin, almost-flourless bittersweet chocolate cake that falls intentionally, then gets slathered in a glossy reduced-cream ganache and dusted with cocoa sugar.

Low-fat pumpkin raisin cake made with egg whites, no butter, and pumpkin pie spice. Served with a strained yogurt cream sauce for a lighter fall dessert.

Easy sour cream apple cake with a buttery coconut crust made from yellow cake mix. Cinnamon-dusted apple slices get a tangy sour cream drizzle and bake up golden in under an hour. Serve warm.

Zucchini cake built on a yellow cake mix shortcut, with cinnamon, vanilla, grated zucchini, raisins, and walnuts baked in a tube pan. Moist, easy, and forgiving for new bakers.

Ultra-moist banana bread with a secret ingredient twist—buttermilk and brown sugar stirred in at the end for tender crumb and caramel notes.

Classic devil's food cake made with real melted unsweetened chocolate, two sugars, cake flour, and folded egg whites. Dark, moist, and deeply chocolatey from scratch.

California ricotta cake: devil's food cake layers brushed with orange liqueur, filled and frosted with sweet ricotta whipped with cream, orange zest, almonds, and chocolate chips.