Cake

Luscious lime caramel is the star of this gooey, show-stopping, peak summer dessert.

Here’s a berry-studded cake so simple you can make it on vacation but so good you’ll want to make it even when you’re not.

How do you make chocolate sheet cake better? Just add brown butter frosting, whose nuttiness is enhanced by an ingredient found in most grocery stores.

Layers of gingersnap crust, tangy cheesecake, and tart lime curd make these freezer treats a warm-weather crowd-pleaser.

This is our quintessential summer dessert: rich ricotta cake swirled through with jammy berries in every bite.

Nothing says, “Thanks for raising me,” like a cake.

Studded with chocolate and cookies and flavored with anise-infused cream, this delightful cake is also a spectacular use for stale bread: Grind it up, then use it instead of flour.

With mashed bananas in the cake batter and sliced bananas sandwiched between the layers, our best banana cake recipe is a banana extravaganza.

Baking cheesecake in a loaf pan allows you to make a half-batch whenever the mood strikes.

Sponge cake takes a bath in sweet saffron-infused milk, emerges sunshine-yellow and ready to feed a crowd.

Light, airy, and delicately sweet, this showstopper is inspired by the layered fruit and cream cakes in Japanese bakeries.

A deep, dark, molten chocolate cake recipe with a liquid chocolate center thanks to a spoonful of ganache, which melts as the cake bakes.

Preserved lemons rein in the sweetness in this plush olive-oil-based loaf.

In the spirit of Hawaiian butter mochi, this head-turning cake requires minimal cleanup and no fancy equipment.

Roasting strawberries is a great way to get that Valentine’s Day staple on your dessert menu, even with out-of-season berries.

We took the classic yeasted French dessert cakes known as babas on a tropical vacation with a boozy pineapple-rum sauce and pillowy whipped coconut cream.

Each bite of this luscious, melt-in-your-mouth banana cake is crowned with a crackly sugar crust that’s worth grabbing a kitchen torch to make.

Ayesha Curry’s holiday-worthy rum cake gets its cheery flavor from two kinds of rum: spiced rum in the cake batter and dark rum in the sticky maple glaze.

Almond flour is a wonderfully sweet, nutty complement for fresh carrots, walnuts, and raisins.

These showstopping miniature baked Alaskas are as foolproof as they are impressive, plus every easy-to-make component can be made ahead of time.

This tender, gently spiced cake enrobed in dark chocolate ganache requires that you make your own sweet potato purée. And yes, it’s absolutely worth it.

When life gives you lemons, make Mina Stone's irresistibly moist and zesty olive oil cake. 

If you wait all year for apple-picking season then spend all fall baking every single apple dessert, this earthy, nutty apple and rye cake has your name all over it.

Imagine if a cinnamon roll and a pound cake had a fluffy little baby, and that baby got drizzled with cream cheese icing. Thanks to Jocelyn Delk Adams and her grandmother, this baby is a reality (and we have the recipe).