923 layer cake recipes

A no-fuss strawberry shortcake layered on angel food cake with vanilla pudding and whipped topping. Four ingredients, 15 minutes, and zero baking required.

Gateau Russe aux Noix, a French-Russian walnut cake with almond meringue layers, coffee buttercream, rum syrup, and caramelized walnuts. A showpiece patisserie dessert.

Baked apples and pears layered with buttered cake and topped with a peaked meringue. A classic British fruit dessert with warm spice and lemon.

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

Renaissance pizza layers a slow-simmered carrot-onion tomato sauce with sauteed broccoli, cauliflower, and mushrooms on a rectangular cake-flour crust. Fully vegetarian.

Sour cream chocolate chip tube cake with a hidden chocolate chip center layer and cinnamon sugar topping. Tender crumb that stays moist for days.

Upside-down chocolate cake layers marshmallows and a cocoa-walnut syrup under boxed devil's food batter, baking into a gooey self-saucing chocolate dessert.

Mound cake: copycat dessert tasting like a giant Mounds candy bar. Devil's food layers with marshmallow-coconut filling and rich chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Cran-raspberry cheesecake on an almond-genoise base, topped with decorative sponge cake cutouts. An elegant baked cheesecake layered with tangy cranberry-raspberry filling.

Angel food cake split into four layers and filled with strawberry and chocolate ice cream. Covered in whipped cream frosting with almonds and chocolate leaves.

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.

Butterscotch coffee cake using frozen dinner rolls layered with butterscotch pudding mix, cinnamon, butter, and pecans, risen overnight for a fuss-free brunch pull-apart.

Egg-free chocolate cake layered with a ganache filling loaded with sliced Snickers bars, then frosted in glossy chocolate and crowned with chopped peanuts. If you've ever wanted to hide a candy bar inside a cake, this is your blueprint.

Jack-o-lantern chocolate cake is a rich two-layer chocolate cake decorated for Halloween, with orange-tinted frosting shaping the pumpkin and chocolate frosting piping the spooky grin. A fun family project that tastes as good as it looks.

Knock You Nakeds, a gooey layered chocolate caramel bar made with cake mix, melted caramels, chocolate chips, and nuts. A rich, fudgy Southern potluck favorite.

Better than sex cake is a four-layer chocolate-pecan icebox dessert: a buttery pecan shortbread crust, sweet cream cheese, chocolate pudding, and whipped topping. A make-ahead potluck legend.