Cakes

Buttery, cake-y, crisp at the edges, and with a slight lilt of lemon, this cookie launched a thousand memories—and a literary masterpiece—for Marcel Proust.

• 20 M
• 1 H
• 2

How do you define a true New York-style cheesecake? A sweetly crunchy graham cracker crust cushioning a rich, creamy, moan-inducing filling with a slightly lemony lilt. In other words, this recipe.

• 20 M
• 2 H
• 28

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

• 25 M
• 45 M
• 76

The magnificence of this cheesecake is its chocolate brownie crust and blobs of brownies baked into the cake. On top is a swirl of bittersweet chocolate.

• 1 H
• 4 H
• 12

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

• 20 M
• 2 H
• 57

“Luscious.” “Creamy.” “Incredibly delicious!” “Just the right amount of sweet.” That’s what folks are saying about this cheesecake.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 14

This hardly decorous dessert is likely to make a colossal mess that will haunt your kitchen for weeks. And it’s so worth it.

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 30 M
• 9

This simple yet spectacular riff on coffee cake—there’s actually coffee in the cake—is rich and robust and rousing in that way only espresso can be.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 37

This cookie dough buttercream frosting is easy to make, insanely indulgent, and ridiculously perfect for slathering atop cakes and cupcakes, and, natch, snitching straight from the bowl.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 2

These white cupcakes smothered with a rich ganache frosting are sorta the cake lovers’ version of the black and white cookie.

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• 40 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 4

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

• 40 M
• 1 H
• 51

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
• 22

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