Cake

Here’s what happened after carrot cake met carrot halwa, the milky, long-cooking, spoonably-soft confection common in South Asia. Raisins, cinnamon, and cream cheese frosting made way for brown-butter pistachios, cardamom, and sticky carrot glaze and the rest of their romance was history. 

Learn it once, remember it forever. 

A tea cake that's true to its name, this loaf harnesses the power of citrusy Earl Grey tea for its distinct flavor. Lemon poppyseed can't hold a candle. 

Attention, lovers of squishy and chewy foods! This moody-glam dessert packs tons of bold sesame flavor into one super simple one-bowl cake.

My 2020 resolution is to eat more mochi, HBU? 

From raspberry ricotta cake to classic roast chicken, these are our readers' favorite recipes of all time.

Instead of icing, this spiced loaf from Elizabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson’s ‘Tartine: A Classic Revisited’ is blanketed in a fluffy vanilla meringue.

Monkey bread, pretzels, easy cakes, and more ways to let the stand mixer do the work. Your arms deserve a break.

Equal parts crunchy-sweet crumb and moist-pillowy cake—plus lots of ginger to balance all that buttery goodness.

Miso and 100% whole wheat flour add salty-nutty complexity to this super tender crumb cake.

And it’s far from the sad, soggy number you (and your great aunt) might be familiar with.

A mega-moist olive oil loaf cake from Ochre Bakery that’s bright and lemony.

Tender, nutty, and studded with caramel-glazed apple halves, Claire Saffitz’s apple cake is the best apple cake. (There, we said it.)

One bite of this piña colada–inspired tres leches cake and you’ll understand why it earned the moniker “three sheets to the wind.”

Don’t be surprised at how quickly this olive oil and cornmeal-enriched sheet cake will disappear.

After nine tries (and so. much. cake.), we’re really sure it’s good.

A loaf cake is a loaf cake is a loaf cake—until you literally douse it in citrus. Then it's something else.

And a little creativity, obvs.

When you have a stash of this homemade cake mix on hand, a celebratory chocolate cake is just a whisk away.

Pure homemade birthday love. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake.

Because sometimes basic is best.

Butter isn't always better.

The most casual-cool carrot cake of all time.

Why shouldn’t sticky toffee pudding be baked in a classic Bundt shape and bathed in a salted toffee sauce? Yep, we couldn’t think of a reason either.