125 warm butter cake recipes

Lemon Bundt cake with fresh zest and juice in the batter and a punchy lemon-butter icing soaked into the warm cake. Bright, tangy, and tender for days.

Orange bundt cake with fresh orange juice and zest in the batter, finished with a warm bourbon-butter-sugar glaze that soaks into the hot cake. Freezes beautifully.

Texas brownie cake, a thin and fudgy sheet cake with a boiled cocoa-butter batter poured over flour, finished with warm chocolate icing and chopped pecans. The Lone Star State's answer to a sheet pan dessert.

Moist gingerbread cake sweetened with molasses and applesauce, no butter or oil added. Whole wheat and white flour blend with buttermilk for tender low-fat texture and warm spice.

Welsh bakestone pancakes (also called Welsh cakes' simpler cousin): four ingredients, no leavening trickery, cooked on a hot griddle until bubbles form. Serve warm with butter, honey or jam.

A few small twists make a much healthier but still decadent chocolate pudding cake. Wole wheat flour adds some fibre, using half butter and half olive oil cuts down the amount of saturated fat without losing the buttery flavor and moist texture. Spoon the warm and rich chocolate sauce over the pudding cake before serving.

Reese's peanut butter cake stacks two peanut-butter-and-brown-sugar layers with a cream cheese peanut butter filling and a warm pour-over chocolate glaze. The candy bar in cake form.

Lemon rum Bundt cake made with yellow cake mix, lemon pudding, and a boozy butter-lemon glaze soaked right into the warm cake. Pecans line the bottom for a nutty crust.

Five-flavor pound cake glaze is a quick stovetop sugar syrup laced with coconut, butter, rum, lemon, and vanilla extracts. Poured warm over pound cake for an aromatic, moist finish.

Honey beer cake baked in a tube pan with apple butter, orange juice, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. A dense, fragrant cake with five layers of sweetness and a beer-malt backbone.

Buttered rum pound cake bakes a sour cream tube cake with whipped egg whites for lift, then poked warm and soaked with a buttery rum-walnut glaze. Holiday-worthy boozy classic.

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.

Old-fashioned mace cake baked in a bundt pan with butter, five eggs, and a full teaspoon of mace for a warm, nutmeg-like flavor. Simple and elegant.

Cake flour muffins with nutmeg, rolled in melted butter and cinnamon sugar while warm. They taste like old-fashioned cake doughnuts in muffin form.

Coca-Cola cake frosting boils butter, cocoa, and cola together then pours over powdered sugar with pecans and vanilla. A warm, pourable Southern frosting for chocolate sheet cake.

Banana walnut upside-down cake with a brown sugar-maple syrup caramel, sliced bananas in concentric circles, and a cinnamon butter cake. Served warm with whipped cream.