Dried Fruit and Nut Cake

Chock-full of crunchy nuts and moist dried fruit, this cake is a taste sensation. May we suggest a choice of apricots, plums, pears, or peaches?

Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cupcakes with Caramel-Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting

These chocolate cupcakes are rich and deeply chocolaty, and the caramel-butterscotch buttercream is, well, need we have to describe it? Utterly divine.

Chocolate-Rum Savarin

Rich and tender, this yeast leavened cake is moistened by a good soaking of rum syrup and frosted with gianduja cream. No savarin mold? A Bundt pan will do.

Almond Cake

A simple almond cake recipe from Alice Waters that abides by her rule of “cook simply”. Accompany with fruit jams and top with sliced almonds.

Chocolate French Mousse Cake

This fudge-like mousse cake pushes the opulence barometer right to the edge. A cinnamon nut crust holds a 1 1/2 pounds of bittersweet chocolate mousse.

Cranberry-Orange Cheesecake with Chocolate Crust

Bon Appetit’s vanilla cheesecake scented with orange peel and topped with sweetened fresh cranberries is a perfect fall dessert when cranberries are fresh.

Kugelhopf

Part bread, part cake, kugelhopf is made like brioche, but not as rich. This one is studded with raisins and brushed with a butter and dusted with sugar.

Brown Sugar–Ice Cream Chocolate Roulade

Brown-sugar ice cream is spiraled between a bittersweet chocolate cake like a jelly roll. Ladled on top is a sumptuous coffee-caramel sauce.

Lemon-Buttermilk Pudding Cake with Chantilly Cream and Berries

Sweet-tart lemon infuses this soft pudding cake. On top is a sweet vanilla whipped cream and a tumble of fresh in-season berries. A great summer dessert.

Orange and Cream Cake

This orange and cream cake will remind you of a Creamsicle. Just one bite of the intense orange cake and orange-cream frosting is addictive. A great cake.

Indonesia Spice Cake

This butter-rich spice cake, flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves and known as spekkuk is an inheritance from Holland’s colonization of Indonesia.

Lemon-Ginger Angel Food and Raspberry-Sorbet Cake

Homemade frozen raspberry sorbet and whipped cream are layered between the lemon and ginger flavored angel food cake halves. Top with fresh raspberries.

Lavender Yogurt Cheesecake with Kaffir Lime-Flavored Strawberries

A simple and delightful dessert. Everyone loves cheesecake, and here lavender adds a touch of summer elegance. On top are strawberries steeped in lime.

Danish Chocolate-Streusel Coffee Cake

This almond-speckled chocolate-filled coffee cake is ideal for breakfast, but it also makes a great holiday treat.

Pear and Vanilla Cake with Custard

This vanilla cake is brightened with lemon zest and topped with a fine wreath of caramelized pears. Warm vanilla custard is poured over each wedge.

German Chocolate Cake

A dark, bittersweet chocolate cake is layered with a caramel-y filling of coconut and chopped pecans and stacked tall for a dessert to impress guests.

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Cinnamon Streusel Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Enjoy for an afternoon treat or more special occasions, this sour cream coffee cake is rich and moist with a sweet cinnamon streusel drizzled on top.

Orange Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

Cupcakes aren’t just for kids — grown-ups are especially fond of these orange-scented little cakes, which sport a luscious orange cream cheese frosting.

White Cupcakes with Truffle Cream Topping

These tender cupcakes scented with vanilla are topped with a rich truffle filling, so chocolate lovers can have their cake and chocolate, too.

Snowflake Cake

A simple cake gets the holiday treatment with a silky buttercream frosting and white chocolate stars decorated with dragees–silvery little pearls of sugar.