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Strawberry Cake
This fuss-free strawberry cake is perfect for springtime snacking. You’ll want fresh strawberries—this is not the time for frozen.
ByJarrett Melendez
Angel Food Cake
The best angel food cake you’ve ever tasted is fewer than 10 ingredients away.
ByRick Ellis
Tres Leches Cake
This layered tres leches cake is sandwiched with strawberries, mangoes, and whipped cream for a knockout version of the popular dessert everyone will love.
ByFany Gerson
Classic English Muffins
This recipe for homemade English muffins employs a few smart tricks, offering a faster path to warm rolls with those coveted chewy nooks and crannies.
ByClaire Saffitz
Fresh Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Canned pineapple can be great, but when the fresh fruit is at its ripest this classic cake is absolutely sublime.
ByRuth Cousineau
Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Our favorite carrot cake is moist, full of shredded carrot and fragrant spices, and topped with an extra-tangy cream cheese frosting.
ByNick Malgieri
Hummingbird Cake
Bananas, pineapples, pecans—this Hummingbird cake has a little something for everyone.
ByKelly Fields
Classic Cream Cheese Frosting
This classic frosting couldn’t be easier to make and is a must for finishing red velvet and carrot cakes (or a batch of cupcakes). Using vanilla bean paste gives it a pretty speckled look, but if you don’t have it on hand, pure vanilla extract will lend the same flavor.
ByKatherine Sacks
Sweet Potato Pie
This recipe from Toni Tipton-Martin’sJubileeis a cross between sweet potato pudding and a classic custard pie, with an optional caramelized pecan topping for good measure.
ByToni Tipton-Martin
Sicilian Cannoli
This cannoli recipe has the chocolate, pistachios, and candied orange peel mixed right into the creamy filling so you get optimal flavor in every bite.
ByGina Marie Miraglia Eriquez
Peanut Butter Pie
If you’ve been on the hunt for a truly simple, creamy, make-ahead dessert, this peanut butter pie recipe may be just what you need.
ByAllison ArevaloandErin Wade
Brooklyn Blackout Cake
With smooth chocolate pudding buttercream sandwiched between layers of moist devil’s food cake, the Brooklyn blackout cake is a dessert fit for chocolate lovers.
ByErin PatinkinandAgatha Kulaga
Chocolate Swiss Roll
If you’ve made a rolled cake before and had anxiety because the recipe requires you to perform cake calisthenics, this chocolate Swiss roll recipe is for you.
ByShilpa Uskokovic
Fluffy Chiffon Cake
You can think of the chiffon cake as angel food cake’s even fluffier cousin.
ByElizabeth PrueittandChad Robertson
A Very Dramatic Crepe Cake
For this towering crepe cake, thin crepes are stacked and sandwiched with an easy pastry cream.
ByVallery Lomas
Easy No-Cook Pastry Cream
This easy no-cook pastry cream requires no hand-whisking or tempering, and the ingredients don’t even have to come to room temperature.
ByVallery Lomas
Joconde Cake
This joconde cake is nutty and rich but still light as a sponge cake should be.
ByZoë François
German Chocolate Cake
Coconut, pecans, and chocolate—this classic German chocolate cake satisfies any sweet tooth.
ByCheryl Day
Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
This featherlight Japanese cheesecake is often called cotton cheesecake, and you can see how it gets its name from its incredibly delicate, wispy texture.
ByJoanne Chang
Vanilla No-Bake Cheesecake With a Chocolate Cookie Crust
This easy vanilla no-bake cheesecake is creamy, tangy, and requires just 15 minutes of active time. The best part? It’s practically a one-bowl project.
ByJessie Sheehan