Three-Layer Walnut Torte with Whipped Cream1/9
Want oohs and aahs at the table? Here's your answer. Three layers of impossibly light and airy walnut cake. You're welcome.
Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake2/9
Dubbed Company's Comin' Coconut Cake, this beauty of a pound cake will have you dreaming up excuses to invite guests for dinner—and dessert.
Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake3/9
This caffeinated incarnation of a classic chocolate cake comprises cocoa-y layers that take their jolt from a cup of joe and ample fudgy ganache that make everything, even chocolate cake, better.
Espresso Cake4/9
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 Cake5/9
This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.
Chocolate Tart with Pine Nuts6/9
We don't know Italian, but we're pretty certain this tart, with its molten filling and brownie crust, translates to "Damn good!"
Chocolate Torte7/9
This stunning Southern belle and its dozen tiers—yup, 12—is astonishingly easy peasy to make thanks to a savvy cake-baking tactic.
German Chocolate Cake8/9
Dark chocolate cake smothered with gooey caramel and coconut and pecan stuff and stacked high. Don't mind if we do.
Thankful Butterscotch Cake9/9
What's with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.