10,000 cake recipes

Tunnel of Fudge cake from scratch with a gooey, fudgy center that forms naturally during baking. A rich chocolate bundt cake with walnuts and cocoa glaze, no cake mix required.

Three-layer pistachio cake with white chocolate buttercream, orange zest, and almond extract. A showstopper dessert with chopped pistachios pressed into the frosting.

Double chocolate cream cheese cake with a coffee-spiked cocoa batter and a tangy cream cheese chocolate chip swirl baked right in. A one-pan dessert that disappears at potlucks.

Double chocolate banana snack cake loaded with cocoa and chocolate chips, made with ripe mashed bananas for extra moisture. A one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that serves eight.

Simple eggless spice raisin cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, and plump raisins. A pantry-staple loaf cake with no eggs, no milk, ready in an hour. Great for surprise visitors.

Lemon poppy seed pound cake with a tender buttermilk crumb, bright citrus zest, and a tangy lemon glaze drizzled over the top. The bundt cake that wakes up dessert.

Flourless chocolate mousse cake with three ingredients in the base: bittersweet chocolate, butter, and eggs. Naturally gluten-free, water-bath baked, finished with optional ganache glaze.

Peach ice cream crown cake stacks vanilla ice cream and ladyfingers in a springform mold, finished with sliced peaches and a glossy white wine sauce. A no-bake summer showstopper.

Classic German chocolate cake: three light layers of sweet chocolate cake with whipped egg whites folded in, stacked with a cooked coconut-pecan frosting made from evaporated milk and egg yolks. The real, from-scratch version.

Peach sour cream coffee cake layers a tender sour cream batter with sliced fresh peaches and a brown sugar streusel top. Tangy, fruit-studded breakfast cake for summer.

Pan di Spagna is the classic Italian sponge cake, made with just eggs, sugar, flour, and cornstarch. No butter, no leavening. The base for tiramisu, zuppa inglese, and Italian layer cakes.

Pineapple spice layer cake with crushed pineapple, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice topped with a fluffy cooked seven-minute frosting studded with pineapple. A from-scratch showstopper.

Jam cake with caramel icing, a three-layer Southern spice cake built around blackberry jam, cinnamon, and allspice, blanketed with soft-ball-stage caramel icing made from brown sugar, butter, and cream.

Rich flourless bittersweet chocolate cakes molded in heart shapes, served on a silky pistachio custard sauce. An elegant make-ahead French-inspired dessert that chills for 24 hours before its grand reveal.

This buttery and fluffy upside-down plum cake will for sure make everyone who has it want a second slice.

Double chocolate Coca-Cola cake, a moist chocolate sheet cake made with real Coke and buttermilk, finished with warm chocolate frosting poured over the still-warm cake. A Southern potluck classic.