Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake1/9
Dubbed Company's Comin' Coconut Cake, this beauty of a pound cake will have you dreaming up excuses to bake dessert. Even if for no other reason than you want it.
Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake2/9
A classic chocolate cake on caffeine, this impressive yet easy to assemble stack of chocolatey elegance takes its rounded chocolatey-ness from a cup of joe and its ample fudgy-ness fro ganache.
Espresso Cake3/9
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.
Victoria Sponge Cake4/9
This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.
Chocolate Tart with Pine Nuts5/9
We don't know Italian, but we're pretty certain this tart, with its molten filling and brownie crust, translates to "Damn good!"
Trisha Yearwood’s Chocolate Torte6/9
This stunning Southern belle and its dozen tiers—yup, 12—is astonishingly easy peasy to make thanks to a savvy cake-baking tactic and a touch of patience.
German Chocolate Cake7/9
Dark chocolate cake stacked high and smothered with gooey caramel and coconut and pecans? Don't mind if we do.
Thankful Butterscotch Cake8/9
What's with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.