631 cake filling recipes

Sicilian cassata cake with a delicate sponge layer, Marsala wine soak, and rich chocolate custard filling. A traditional Italian celebration dessert built in stages.

Parisian Sophisticates: almond-vanilla buttermilk cupcakes hollowed out and filled with airy chocolate truffle mousse, topped with toasted cake crumbs. Vintage tea-party fancy.

A chocolate banana bundt cake with two layers of streusel filling made from brown sugar, chocolate chips, pecans, and allspice. Moist from sour cream and mashed bananas, dusted with powdered sugar.

Pressed angel food cake sandwiches filled with chocolate chips, marshmallows, cherry preserves, or cinnamon sugar. Made in a sandwich maker until golden and gooey. Kids love these.

Italian rum cake with three sponge layers soaked in cherry-rum syrup, filled with pastillera cream, and frosted with whipped cream and roasted almonds. A showstopper.

Chocolate raspberry layer cake: a moist buttermilk-cocoa sponge cut into three layers and filled with an airy raspberry cream of Italian meringue folded into raspberry whipped cream. A showstopping, lighter-than-it-looks dessert.

Yeasted coffee cake with a sour cream dough, sweet cream cheese filling rolled jelly-roll style, and vanilla glaze with sliced almonds. An overnight rise makes it brunch-ready.

Passover-friendly sponge cake roll made with potato starch instead of flour, filled with a bright orange curd. A light, flourless citrus dessert perfect for the Seder table.

Simple sweetened whipped cream filling with just three ingredients: heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla. Whip until stiff in 5 minutes for cakes, pastries, and pies.

Gingerbread cream pie with a spiced molasses cake split and filled with an apricot-vanilla custard set with gelatin. A unique two-component dessert for gingerbread lovers.

Fudgy sour cream chocolate cake with a molten caramel filling baked right into the middle. Half the batter bakes first, then melted caramels and condensed milk go on top, followed by the rest of the batter. Gooey, layered, and dangerously good.

Orange layer cake with a from-scratch orange curd filling and orange buttercream frosting. Light, citrusy layers made with whipped egg whites and fresh orange zest.

Final assembly of a three-layer tiramisu torte with mascarpone filling, whipped cream piping, and chocolate-covered coffee beans. The Italian dessert classic reimagined as a layer cake.

A delicate sponge cake rolled around a silky white wine custard filling, served with warm strawberry currant sauce. A vintage jelly roll dessert that pairs dry white wine with sweet berries.

Hostess-Style Cupcakes with deep chocolate cake, silky vanilla pastry cream filling, dark chocolate ganache glaze and the signature white loop squiggle on top. A homemade copycat that buries the store-bought version.

Double chocolate bar cake with melted milk chocolate, cocoa, and sour cream batter, filled and frosted with whipped chocolate cream. A light, airy three-layer stunner.