Cakes
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Articles on Cakes
How To
This Easy Icebox Cake Is a Perfect No-Bake Summer Dessert
Icebox cake is one of the easiest no-bake summer desserts around. Just layer cookies and whipped cream...
How To
You've Been Cutting Cake All Wrong This Whole Time
You’ll remember this day as being one of the “today years old” moments when you learned something...
Recipe Round-Ups
21 Amazing Air Fryer Recipes You Did Not See Coming
You expect the almighty air fryer to turn out crisp fried chicken, crunchy french fries, and other...
Guides
11 Ingredients to Stock for Your Best Baking Ever
Better baking can be achieved in many ways: the right baking tools, the best baking recipes, knowledge...
Guides
A Guide to Essential Baking Tools Everyone Should Own
From Christmas cookies and birthday cakes to bake sale brownies and Sunday morning muffins, there...
How To
Eat Cake for Dinner with This Multilayered Crepe Masterpiece
A crêpe cake is a beautifully layered affair that's usually (like most cakes) a sweet dessert treat...
Food News
How to Make a Caramelized Upside-Down Cake with Any Fruit
Fans of chef Kelly Fields’ New Orleans restaurant Willa Jean will finally have the opportunity to...
Food Trends
This One-Bowl Apple Cake Is Everything You Want in a Fall Dessert
Baker, recipe developer, and cookbook author Jessie Sheehan shares her recipe for an easy one-bowl...
Food News
The 7 Best Baking Ingredients to Buy from the Grocery Store, According to Pastry Chefs
When it comes to the best baking ingredients, they're not necessarily expensive or hard to find—or...
Cakes Recipes
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Dutch Applesauce Raisin Cake
Think of this Applesauce Raisin Cake as the Dutch answer to coffee cake; sturdy yet moist, it's fragrant...
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Vanilla Bundt Cake with Strawberries
Bundt cakes became popular in the 1950s, after Nordic Ware created the aluminum cake mold in the distinctive...
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Mexican Lime Icebox Cake (Carlota de Limón)
This easy lime icebox cake is inspired by the Mexican Carlota de Limón, a no-bake dessert that's creamy...
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Modernist Cuisine's Individual Microwave Yellow Cakes
A recipe for a fluffy, impressive dessert from boxed cake mix, made in the microwave in about a minute...
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Easy Chiffon Cake
A recipe for the classic light, airy cake, which gets its pillowy texture from baking powder and whipped...
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Pavlova with Lemon Curd and Fresh Berries
This pavlova recipe, a meringue cake with a crunchy exterior and marshmallow-like interior, is topped...
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Classic Strawberry Shortcake
A classic strawberry shortcake recipe made with homemade biscuits, sweetened strawberries, and whipped...
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Cardamom Cake with Mulled Wine Jam
This cardamom cake is a rich, fruity dessert full of warmly spiced holiday flavors that's easy to...