Layer Cake
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
31 Birthday Cake Recipes to Make All Your Wishes Come True
Gifts are nice and all, but nothing beats homemade birthday cake.
ByThe Editors of EpicuriousandEmily Saladino
Sheet-Pan Lemon Poppy Seed Layer Cake
There’s something so playful about a lemon poppy seed cake—the lemon brings a zingy flavor, and the poppy seeds bring that delicate crunch.
ByMolly Gilbert
Dobos Torta
This impressive pastry, sometimes spelled Dobos torte, is among the most famous cakes from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
ByMichelle Polzine
Prinsesstårta (Princess Cake)
One of the most famous cakes in Sweden, Prinsesstårta is known for its showstopping layers of sponge cake, pastry cream, and raspberry jam.
ByBrontë Aurell
Lane Cake
A classic Southern cake, after winning first prize at the county fair in Columbus, Georgia, Lane Cake also earned the name “Prize Cake.”
ByCheryl Day
Karpatka Cake
Karpatka cake is like a cloud of rich milky frosting trapped between two layers of pâte à choux.
ByAnna Voloshyna
Fluffy Coffee and Walnut Cake With Mocha Buttercream
This light and fluffy coffee and walnut cake recipe is inspired by the classic British cake—but the mocha frosting takes it over the top.
ByTara O'Brady
Victoria Sponge Cake
Victoria sponge cake’s simple filling of whipped cream, jam, and fruit makes it the perfect dessert for a celebration.
ByZoë François
Double Chocolate Layer Cake
This old-fashioned chocolate cake made our staff swoon! Chef Ed Kasky uses Callebaut semisweet chocolate for the cake and Guittard French-vanilla chocolate for the frosting, but any fine-quality semisweet chocolate will produce a wonderful result.
ByEd Kasky
Golden Beet Cake With the Best Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot cake, but with beets—and the dreamiest frosting of all.
ByJoe Sevier
49 Sky-High Layer Cake Recipes for Birthdays, Easter, and Any Occasion
Carrot cake, cloaked in tangy cream cheese frosting. Chocolate cake, shiny with ganache. And so much more.
ByThe Editors of Epicurious
Deep, Dark Chocolate Cake
This incredibly dark, extra-moist cake is meant for serious chocolate lovers. Dutch-process cocoa powder and baking soda give it a deep color. Top with light, fluffy meringue or your favorite frosting.
ByShirley O. Corriher
Double Ripple Ice Cream Cake
This cake is a tie-dyed composition of textures and flavors that starts with a tahini-enriched blondie base and continues with vanilla ice cream layered with seedy maple syrup and bands of cooked plums.
ByTara O'Brady
Roasted Strawberry Layer Cake
Roasting the strawberries is a real game-changer and brings out such an intense, sweet flavor in this cake, which gets added fragrance from elderflower cordial.
ByBenjamina Ebuehi
Old-School Tiramisù
This tiramisú is moist but not wet, extra-fluffy, and made with real coffee and the perfect amount of dark rum.
ByChris Morocco
Crunchy Chocolate Caramel Layer Cake
三明治层脆巧克力糕点了oozing chocolate-caramel sauce for a stunning-but-easy celebratory dessert.
ByDonna Hay
The Coconut Cake
This cake is like a party in your mouth. The cake itself is very fluffy because of the coconut cream. It's all about coconut, with coconut icing and real coconut flakes covering the entire cake.
ByMelissa Ben-Ishay