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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A simple yet elegant cake that is packed with lime and coconut, studded with macadamia nuts, and drizzled with a lime icing.

A spin on the original Nabisco icebox cake, these mini versions are filled with coffee whipped cream–a perfect companion to the chocolate wafers.

These naughty chocolate biscuits are dripping with sweet cherry goodness–a take on cherries jubilee. Vanilla ice cream completes the dessert.

This layer cake maximizes the flavor of chocolate. Its buttery flavor and serious moistness makes the cake so delicious. The satiny chocolate frosting helps.

These just-the-right-size cakes have a crisp, brownie-like surface, a moist, pudding-like center, and, lurking beneath, a blissful pool of dark fudge sauce.

This cake from Saudia Arabia, exploding with dates and topped with a caramel glaze that’s bubbled under the broiler, is perfect warm or at room temp.

Creamy pumpkin puree flavors this winning cheesecake. The crust, made from crushed gingersnaps and ground pecans, give the cake a distinctive snap of taste.