10,000 la king recipes

This egg-free, dairy-free chocolate wacky cake uses applesauce and vinegar for a moist, tender crumb. A Depression-era classic that mixes right in the pan and bakes in under 30 minutes.

Mango mousse cake with airy sponge base, raspberry jam ribbon, fresh mango cream mousse, and a crown of toasted almond slices and whipped cream rosettes. A patisserie-worthy showstopper.

Anytime cake doctors up boxed chocolate cake mix with mashed banana and rum extract for a moist, lower-sugar loaf. Ready in 20 minutes start to finish, no eggs or oil needed.

Gold cake is a rich, egg yolk-based layer cake with lemon zest, frosted and sprinkled with shredded coconut. Six egg yolks give this two-layer cake its golden color and tender, velvety crumb.

Fuzzy navel cake captures the classic peach-and-orange cocktail in a moist bundt: yellow cake mix doctored with peach schnapps, orange juice, and a poke-and-pour boozy glaze. The party-cake answer to a fuzzy navel.

Gather round pound cake: a moist butterscotch-coffee bundt cake with melted butterscotch chips and instant coffee in the batter. The deep amber pound cake that smells like a coffee shop bakery.

Black Russian bundt cake spiked with vodka and creme de cacao, doctored from a yellow cake mix with chocolate pudding, instant coffee, and cinnamon. Boozy old-school cocktail-inspired dessert.

Lemon-lime poke cake with lime gelatin soaked into a lemon cake mix, topped with a fluffy lemon pudding whipped topping. A retro refrigerator sheet cake served chilled.

Flourless chocolate souffle cake with a full pound of semi-sweet chocolate, brandy, and nine eggs. Dense, fudgy, and gluten-free with no flour needed at all.

Green tomato cake with cinnamon, ginger, raisins, and walnuts baked into two moist loaves. A Southern garden classic that puts end-of-season tomatoes to sweet use.

No-egg chocolate cake made with cocoa powder, sour milk, and boiling water for a rich, moist crumb. One-bowl mixing, no eggs needed, baked in a tube pan.

Passover honey cake (lekach) uses matzo meal in place of flour for a flourless, kosher-for-Passover spice cake sweetened with honey and brightened with orange zest, cinnamon, ginger, and instant coffee.

Heart cake without a special pan, made by cutting a round layer in half and setting both halves against a square layer to form a heart, then frosting it pink with strawberry frosting. A clever Valentine's trick.

Brandy-fermented friendship cake made with a homemade fruit starter of pineapple, peaches, and maraschino cherries. A beloved sharing tradition where each batch creates starters for friends.

Buttery pound cake soaked in a homemade liqueur syrup. Choose your favorite spirit: rum, amaretto, hazelnut, orange, or raspberry. Stores up to 6 months frozen.

Butterscotch dandy cake folds homemade hard-ball butterscotch syrup into a tender two-layer cake, then crowns it with a cooked brown sugar buttercream. A real-deal Southern butterscotch cake from scratch.