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9 Fancy Schmancy Cake Recipes

A Brown Betty Bakery coconut cake on a decorative white cake stand.

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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.

A 16-layer red-eye devil's food cake--alternating layer of chocolate cake and chocolate frosting

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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.

An espresso cake drizzled with glaze on a wire rack that is set on a pice of parchment to catch any glaze drips.

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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.

A two-tier Victoria sponge cake with raspberry jam in the middle, all dusted with confectioners' sugar on a white plate with a white teapot in the background

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This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.

Trisha Yearwood's chocolate torte on a cake stand with a section cut from it to display 12 layers.

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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.

A layered German chocolate cake with coconut pecan frosting on a platter with a few slices cut from it.

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Dark chocolate cake stacked high and smothered with gooey caramel and coconut and pecans? Don't mind if we do.

Thankful butterscotch cake in close-up with a large piece cut out and a slice in the foreground.

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What's with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.

© 2012 Renee Schettler. All rights reserved. All materials used with permission.