Cakes

Cakes
Hershey Chocolate Cake Recipe

Hershey's Chocolate Cake

Forever? Completely? Sounds like words used only in conjunction with things that inspire lasting love. Like this cake.

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  • 20 M
  • 55 M
  • 95
Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Dubbed Company’s Comin’ Coconut Cake, this beauty will have you dreaming up excuses to invite guests for dinner—and dessert.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 20 M
  • 4
Sweetie Cupcakes

Sweetie Cupcakes

Halloween candy still tempting, teasing, tormenting you? We divulge how to keep it outta your house—and off your hips.

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  • 15 M
  • 15 M
  • 3
Cranberry Buckle

Cranberry Buckle

We’ll take this sweetly tart mingling of muffin and coffee cake any time someone cares to plunk a slice down in front of us.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 25 M
  • 6
Root Beer Cake

Root Beer Cake

This fetching cake contains sugar and spice and everything nice, yes, but it also has its share of sass. As in, sassafras.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 6
Twinkie Bundt Cake

Twinkie Bundt Cake

A relatively ginormous riff on the iconic American snack cake, this Twinkie look-alike boasts an amped-up vanilla smack and ingredients you can actually pronounce.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 2
Pistachio Pound Cake

Pistachio Lover’s Pound Cake

Not too sweet and not too dense, this pound cake for pistachio lovers is just right—and just large enough to share.

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  • 20 M
  • 2 H
  • 26
Plum Almond Cake

Plum Almond Cake | Torta di Prugne e Mandorle

Haute yet homey, this rustic Italian cake will cause you to anticipate plum season like never, ever before.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 9
Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird Cake

Sweet as nectar. That’s what we think of this Southern classic, a charming stack of pineapple, coconut, bananas, and pecans aplenty.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H
  • 18
Iced Berry Cake Recipe

Iced Berry Cake

This hardly decorous dessert is likely to make a colossal mess that will haunt your kitchen for weeks. But tell us it isn’t worth it.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 10
Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake

We’re hearing rumors that this all-natural rendition of the classic surpasses all others. And it’s not just kids who’re saying that. See for yourself, grown ups.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 20 M
  • 22
Coconut Angel Food Cake

Coconut Angel Food Cake

Not just the stuff of sweet memories, angel food cake is still in fashion–and still fashionably simple to whip up. Truly heaven sent.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 16
Whole Milk Ricotta Cheesecake

Ricotta Cheesecake from Rome’s Jewish Quarter

This is prettier and more puddinglike than we’re accustomed to in a cheesecake. But no complaints here. None whatsoever.

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  • 20 M
  • 1 H
  • 24
Basic White Cake

Basic White Cake

We beg to differ with the name of this fetching creation, as it’s far too easy to mistake “basic” for “blah.” Far more fitting, we think, is “best white cake.”

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  • 25 M
  • 45 M
  • 40
Vegan Chocolate Cake

Vegan Chocolate Cake

Yup. It’s vegan. It’s also chocolate through and through. Dare you to guess which of these traits is inspiring both omnivores and vegans alike to swoon.

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  • 20 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 20
Satsuma Orange Cake

Satsuma Orange Cake

Looks like an upside-down cake. Tastes like an upside-down cake. Yet this citrusy, sticky sweet dessert couldn’t be more right-side up.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 20
Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake

Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake

The true beauty of this Bundt depends on your perspective. Does it lie in its stunning silhouette? Its intensely chocolatey chocolatiness? Or its lazy day ease? You tell us.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 51
Buche de Noel

Bûche de Noël

We’ve no clue why the French felt compelled to roll chocolate cake with ganache in the likeness of a log. But with a taste like this, who the heck cares?

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  • 45 M
  • 2 H, 45 M
  • 12
Lemon Zucchini and Poppyseed Cake

Zucchini Cake with Lemon and Poppyseed

A charmingly old-fashioned cake that puts to lovely use the abundance of late-summer zucchini languishing in your veggie bin or garden.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 12
Plum Blueberry Upside-Down Cake

Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake

This purple-stained cake—er, what’s left of it—puts the ease back in pleasin’. Just old-fashioned goodness and the season’s most compelling fruits. Got milk?

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  • 20 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 13
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