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9 Fancy Schmancy Cake Recipes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 cut into 12 slices on parchment paper

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 torte on a cake stand with a section cut from it to display 12 layers.

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 Cake

German Chocolate Cake7/9

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

A nine layer butterscotch cake with one slice being removed from it.

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.