96 up cake recipes

Small-batch date cake with cocoa in the batter and a chocolate chip, nut, and sugar topping pressed on before cooking. Ready in 7 minutes in the microwave. A quick, nostalgic treat when you want homemade cake without heating up the oven.

A sweet coconut rice cake made with glutinous rice flour, coconut milk, and shredded coconut. This traditional Chinese New Year treat bakes up sticky, chewy, and subtly sweet.

Strawberry icebox cake layered with vanilla wafer crumbs, whipped cream, and Jello-marshmallow filling. A vintage no-bake dessert that sets up in the fridge with zero oven time.

Soft, cake-like apricot cookies with jewel-toned jam centers that bake up tender and light. Chopped dried apricots in the dough add chewy bits of fruit throughout each cookie.

Middle Eastern semolina cake soaked in citrus syrup and topped with toasted almonds. This yogurt-based dessert bakes up golden with a tender, moist crumb that pairs beautifully with tea.

Old-fashioned rhubarb pudding with a stale cake or bread base, sweetened stewed rhubarb filling, and golden meringue topping. A Pennsylvania Dutch-style baked dessert that uses up leftover bread.

Traditional Middle Eastern semolina cake drenched in lemon syrup. This easy yogurt-based dessert bakes golden brown and soaks up fragrant citrus syrup for a moist, tender treat perfect with tea.

Intensely rich chocolate silk mousse cake baked in a water bath with a pound of semi-sweet chocolate and a glossy ganache glaze. Make up to 3 days ahead. Serves 8.

A lighter banana cake topped with cinnamon-sugar apple slices, made moist with mashed banana, yogurt, and honey instead of heaps of butter. The go-to recipe for using up your fall apple harvest.

Spice walnut cake marries toasted walnuts with whole-wheat pastry and barley flours, warm cinnamon and clove, then soaks in a fresh orange syrup after baking. A healthier Greek-inspired karydopita.

Whole wheat coffee cake with cardamom, buttermilk, and crunchy oat-walnut crumb topping. Healthy breakfast treat bakes in 40 minutes, serves 16.

Authentic Indian roti made with just whole wheat chapati flour and water, cooked on a hot cast-iron griddle and puffed directly over an open flame. Two-ingredient vegan flatbread.

Mocha frosting: cocoa, instant coffee, butter, and powdered sugar whipped into a silky chocolate-coffee glaze. Pipes, spreads, and stays put on cakes, brownies, and cupcakes.

This is a refreshing and delicious frosting that can be used for frosting cakes, cupcakes, or cookies. The citrus flavor is a winner, adding some sourness and freshness into the sweetness, with the creamy and smooth texture!

Mini brownie cupcakes topped with a milk chocolate kiss that melts slightly into the warm batter. Made from boxed brownie mix, these 25 bite-sized treats are ready in under an hour. Kids go wild for them.

Raw Fruit Pie or Tart with Apple-Juice Glaze recipe