9,729 cake recipes

Flowerpot desserts layer yellow cake, ice cream, and golden meringue in clay pots with real flower stems poking through the top. A showstopping party trick that looks wild and tastes like baked Alaska.

Rich and creamy squares with a buttery yellow cake mix base topped with sweetened cream cheese and pecans. An easy two-layer bar cookie that feeds a crowd.

Thin, delicate cookies rolled into calla lily shapes while still warm, then filled with fresh whipped cream and a candied orange peel stamen. Edible art for special occasions.

Old-fashioned buttermilk rolls topped with poppy seeds and brushed with melted butter. Soft, tangy, and ready in about an hour. Makes 2 dozen dinner rolls.

Apple coconut kuchen with a yellow-cake-and-coconut crust, sliced apples layered with cinnamon sugar, and a sour cream custard drizzle on top. German-style coffee cake done semi-homemade.

Sleigh Belles are angel food cake mix cookies in three festive flavors: chocolate chip walnut, coconut, and chopped date. Light, airy holiday cookies from one box of cake mix.

Meringue madeleines made with whipped egg whites, cake flour, and melted butter. Light as air with crisp edges, best eaten warm straight from the oven.

Soft, yeasted rolls swirled with brown sugar, cinnamon, and black walnuts, baked in a buttery butterscotch coating that pools over each warm roll. Old-fashioned sticky bun goodness from scratch.

Flourless-style chocolate squares with melted unsweetened chocolate, cake flour, hazelnuts, and skim milk. Fudgy, nutty, and lower in fat than traditional brownies.

Three-layer pumpkin bars built on a yellow cake mix base with spiced pumpkin custard center and a buttery cake-mix streusel top. Makes 24 bars in a 9x13 pan.

Add a European touch to your Christmas baking skills with these scrumptious snacks made with cream cheese, walnuts and dark rum.

Savory baking powder biscuits with sauteed onion and shallot mixed into the dough. A food processor method for flaky, tender biscuits with a sweet onion flavor.

Three-ingredient triple fudge brownies built on chocolate pudding mix, chocolate cake mix, and semi-sweet chips. Dense, fudgy, and fast. The semi-homemade trick that fooled every PTA bake sale.

Chocolate truffle cake à la Café de Paris: layered chocolate cake split and filled with a glossy chocolate-fondant-cream ganache, chilled overnight for clean truffle slices.

Egg-free, dairy-free chocolate wacky cupcakes with a sugar substitute option. Vinegar and baking soda create the lift in these surprisingly tender, fudgy treats that come together in one bowl.

Two-layer diabetic-friendly brownies with an unsweetened coconut bottom and a chocolate top, made with sugar substitute. Low-fat, mailable, and perfectly portioned into 32 small bars from one 8-inch pan.