Cakes

Fashioned from chocolate cake, filled and frosted with meringue, and festooned in a feathery pink coconut boa, these are the real deal.

• Quick Glance
• 40 M
• 1 H
• 45

Layers of vanilla cake take turns with oodles of coconut filling and the whole shebang is slathered with fluffy white icing. Uh, yes please!

• 45 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 18

Yup. Vegan chocolate cake. If you tasted it without knowing, all you’d experience is chocolate through and through. No one will ever know it’s vegan…unless you tell them.

• Quick Glance
• 20 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 22

A classic and for good reason. Light, airy, lofty, tender, and lovely. From the venerable Joy of Cooking.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 7

Know how sometimes you taste something and can’t help but sigh with content? This cake does that to us each and every darn time.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 25

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

• 45 M
• 1 H, 35 M
• 19

Stunning enough for special occasions. Easy enough for weekday breakfasts. Marvelous enough to make you want it every damn day.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 22

Buttery, rich cake is ribboned with a marmalade layer, steeped in a blood orange syrup, and topped with a light orange glaze. What more could you want?

• 1 H
• 2 H
• 6

A flourless almond cake that’s French and flavorful, this amandier is crisp and crunchy on the outside, dense and chewy on the inside, and gluten-free through and through. Perfect for Passover.

• 15 M
• 50 M
• 31

This lofty cake is so crammed full of chocolate and butter and air, there’s no room for flour–although we made sure to leave space for ample swoops of softly whipped cream.

• 40 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 12

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

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 49

When life hands you lemons, make this lemon pound cake. Guaranteed to give you a far more favorable outlook on everything.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 20 M
• 20

This paleo chocolate cake also happens to be gluten-free and, even more importantly, it tastes magnificent enough to rival any other chocolate cake, birthday or otherwise. Go ahead. Taste it and see.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 6

Sometimes called a volcano cake, this much ballyhooed molten dessert is, quite literally, bursting–er, oozing–with chocolate.

• 30 M
• 40 M
• 48