Chocolate Bundt Cake1/18
An homage to the chocolate cakes of yesteryear but with a contemporary dark chocolate oomph that turns tradition upside-down in the most pleasing possible way. You're welcome.
Espresso Cake2/18
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.
Kentucky Bourbon Cake3/18
This Southern classic is like a pound cake given its decadent amount of butter and its tender crumb. But oh, baby, wait'll you taste the bourbon glaze.
Lemon Pound Cake4/18
When life hands you lemons, make this lemon pound cake. Guaranteed to give you a far more favorable outlook on everything.
Chocolate Sour Cream Bundt Cake5/18
Does the true beauty of this cake lie in its stunning silhouette? Its intensely chocolatey chocolatiness? Or its lazy-day ease? You tell us.
Vanilla Angel Food Cake6/18
All the delicate loveliness of classic angel food cake but made even better with the addition of pure vanilla and a blizzard of confectioners' sugar.
Portuguese Orange Olive Oil Cake7/18
This classic Portuguese dessert with its tender crumb and citrus smack tastes as stunning as it looks. Swear.
Gingerbread Bundt Cake8/18
This gingerbread Bundt cake has all the warm spicy goodness of gingerbread cookies. And, as if that wasn't enough, it's gilded with a sassy sweet-tart citrus glaze.
Zingerman’s Sour Cream Coffee Cake 9/18
A highly addictive and obscenely moist coffee cake from the legendary Zingerman's Bakehouse. You'll be making this cinnamon and walnut beauty often.
Glazed Pumpkin Pound Cake10/18
If you've been thinking maybe you're done with pumpkin everything, wait'll you experience this aromatic pound cake that boasts the perfect balance of sweet and spice.
Red Truck Bakery Apple Cake11/18
A yearround charmer, this is sorta like Bundt cake gone to finishing school yet retains all the comforts of home. From the justifiably famous Red Truck Bakery in rural Virginia.
Old-Fashioned Zucchini Cake12/18
No matter how much soggy steamed zucchini you were forced to choke down as a child, you won't turn away this moist zucchini cake that tastes just like grandma used to make.
Vanilla Pound Cake13/18
Flecked with vanilla seeds, this classic cake is ridiculously rich and oh so satisfying with its tender crumb and its knee-wobbingly crisp outer edges. Pound cake perfection.
Ligurian Almond Cake14/18
A remarkably—and deceptively—simple that cake boasts an understated elegance that befits this frugal and classic Italian dessert.
Apple Coffee Cake15/18
Elegant enough for company, simple enough for every day, and versatile enough for breakfast and midnight snack and pretty much every moment in between.
Saint Phanourios’s Cake16/18
Bake this cake in honor of Phanourious, the patron saint of lost objects, and you just might find something. Even if you never knew it was missing.
Rum Cake17/18
Every bit as boozy and as brilliant as it sounds. Inspired by the old-fashioned rum cake made in the Caribbean with dark rum in all its magnificently spiced glory.
Twinkie Bundt Cake18/18
A ginormous riff on the iconic American snack cake, this Twinkie look-alike boasts a beauteous appearance, an amped-up vanilla smack, and ingredients you can actually pronounce.