4,340 cuke recipes

Truffled chocolate cake made by layering store-bought pound cake with a rich chocolate ganache frosting. Just four ingredients and no baking needed.

Moist banana cake with buttermilk and cake flour topped with a double-chocolate glaze made from melted unsweetened chocolate and cocoa. Ripens overnight for deeper flavor.

Vintage ribbon cake: plain vanilla and spiced molasses batters layered in stripes with a tart lemon-raisin filling between. An old-fashioned American cake worth reviving.

Fresh apple chiffon cake, light and airy with shredded McIntosh apples, warm cinnamon and nutmeg, and a caramel drizzle. Whipped egg whites give this oil-based tube cake its tall, tender, moist crumb.

Vintage white cake layered with toasted pecans and grated semi-sweet chocolate, finished with a glossy chocolate fudge frosting. A 1960s-era bake-off showstopper.

Port wine blueberry cake reduces ruby port into a syrupy concentrate, then folds it into a low-fat buttermilk cake studded with fresh berries. A sophisticated grown-up dessert.

A layered coffee cake built on a yellow cake mix and sour cream batter, swirled with a crunchy brown sugar streusel packed with chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon. Easy enough for a weekday morning, fancy enough for brunch guests.

A spiced carrot cake made ultra-moist with applesauce, packed with shredded carrots, golden raisins, and walnuts. Bake it in a tube pan or 9x13 for a crowd-pleasing cake that keeps for days.

Harvey Wallbanger cake built from an orange cake mix, vanilla pudding, and vodka, then drenched in an orange juice, vodka, and Galliano glaze. The 1970s cocktail-turned-bundt strikes again.

Birthday or festival, it is always a wonderful cake.

This cake won me First Prize at the county fair last year. It is very chocolaty.

Simple blueberry cupcakes with two cups of fresh berries in a vanilla shortening batter. Mix everything together, scoop into muffin tins, and bake for 20 minutes.

Banana-Date Bundt Cake combines mashed ripe bananas with pureed dates for a naturally moist, lower-fat cake with optional walnuts and a powdered sugar finish. Rich flavor, lighter crumb.

Almond poppy seed loaf cake made with amaretto liqueur, sour cream, and butter for a rich, dense crumb studded with crunchy poppy seeds. Dusted with powdered sugar.

Low-fat chocolate Bundt cake made with russet potato and yogurt for incredible moisture, whole wheat flour, and whipped egg whites. No butter, no egg yolks, all richness.

A show-stopping heart-shaped cake for Valentine's Day made from one square and one round cake, frosted in pink vanilla buttercream and covered in tinted coconut. Decorated with gumdrop hearts and fruit roll bows.