1,151 top cake recipes

Sauerkraut apple cake with walnuts, cinnamon, and nutmeg topped with orange-cinnamon cream cheese frosting. A secret ingredient cake nobody can guess.

Spiced applesauce chocolate cake topped with fluffy meringue-style chocolate frosting. Cinnamon, cocoa and applesauce make a moist, vintage 13x9 sheet cake.

Buttermilk chocolate cake with fudge icing, a moist, tender chocolate sheet cake made with buttermilk and boiling water, topped with a cooked, poured fudge frosting that sets glossy and rich.

Coffee cake muffins with a cinnamon-pecan brown sugar streusel baked inside and on top. All the flavor of coffee cake in individual portions, ready in 30 minutes.

Old-fashioned blueberry cake topped with hard sauce and a hot lemon-blueberry compote that melts the butter into the warm cake. A classic New England dessert with bright berry flavor.

A self-saucing brownie pudding cake that creates its own hot chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with brown sugar and hot water transforms into cake on top, gooey pudding underneath. Serve warm with ice cream.

Sour cream sugar cakes, soft tender drop cookies made with sour cream and half butter, half shortening. Lightly sugared tops, cake-like crumb, a forgotten heartland classic.

Chocolate cream cheese gooey butter bars with a chocolate cake mix base, chopped pecans, and a sweet cream cheese topping. A St. Louis-style gooey butter cake in bar form.

Dr. Pepper cake is a Texas-born sheet cake using the soda for moisture and faint cherry-cola notes. Topped with warm Dr. Pepper cocoa frosting poured over the hot cake.

Red velvet cake with buttermilk and vinegar baked in three layers, topped with cream cheese pecan frosting. An oil-based cake with a tender crumb and classic tangy finish.

Rich fudge cake with unsweetened chocolate and brown sugar, topped with a thick milk chocolate and semisweet frosting. A serious chocolate lover's layer cake.

Warm brownie pudding cake bakes its own fudgy chocolate sauce underneath a soft cake top. Pour boiling water over the batter, don't stir, bake, then spoon out cake and sauce in one go.

Raw apple cake bakes fresh chopped apples, pecans and cinnamon into a moist oil-based cake, then soaks it hot with a caramel sweetened condensed milk topping.

Buttery brown sugar cake layers with warm nutmeg get topped with chopped walnuts for this tender Armenian spice cake that rests before serving.

Pineapple upside down cake: classic skillet cake with caramelized brown sugar pineapple and pecan topping. Single-pan dessert that flips into a showstopper.

A from-scratch layer cake with 16 melted Snickers bars and peanut butter folded into a fluffy buttermilk batter. Topped with whipped cream for the ultimate candy bar cake.