194 layer cake recipes

Semi-homemade chocolate cake with a gooey caramel, roasted peanut, and milk chocolate chip layer baked right into the center. Starts with a box mix and six ingredients. Tastes like a giant chocolate turtle bar in cake form.

Original German sweet chocolate cake with Baker's German chocolate, buttermilk, and folded egg whites in three layers. Frost with classic coconut-pecan frosting.

Three-layer pecan fudge cake made with unsweetened chocolate in both the batter and frosting. Rich, dense, and loaded with chopped pecans throughout.

Just 4 ingredients: devil's food cake mix, melted butter, peanut butter, and marshmallow creme layered into gooey, fudgy bars. Makes 3 dozen in 40 minutes with zero mixer required.

Maple-walnut pound cake baked in a tube pan with a cinnamon-walnut streusel layer through the middle and on top. Dense, buttery, and loaded with maple and brown sugar flavor.

Judith Olney's chocolate buttermilk cake is a tender triple-layer cake built on tangy buttermilk, a generous hit of cocoa, a whisper of cinnamon, and a splash of coffee that sharpens the chocolate into something deep and grown-up.

Vegan chocolate rum cake made with silken tofu, maple syrup, espresso, and cocoa, layered with rum syrup and a tofu-chocolate frosting. No eggs, no dairy, all decadence.

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.

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.

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.

Layered whole wheat crumb cake loaded with cinnamon-walnut streusel and finished with a powdered sugar drizzle. Wholesome enough for breakfast, sweet enough for dessert.

Knock You Nakeds are gooey caramel brownies made from chocolate cake mix with a melted caramel and evaporated milk layer sandwiched between chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Sinfully rich.