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 invite guests for dinner—and dessert.
Chocolate Tart with Pine Nuts2/9
We don't know Italian, but we're pretty certain this tart, with its molten filling and brownie crust, translates to "Damn good!"
German Chocolate Cake3/9
Dark chocolate cake smothered with gooey caramel and coconut and pecan stuff and stacked high. Don't mind if we do.
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 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.
Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake7/9
This caffeinated incarnation of a classic chocolate cake comprises cocoa-y layers and fudgy ganache that take their jolt from a cup of joe.
