Cakes & Cupcakes

Spices, chocolate, and prune swirl through this moist sour cream cake.Plus: More Dessert Recipes and Tips

This single-layer tea cake is buttery and rich. An undercoating of pretty pink Rose Petal Jam shows through a transpa...

You can let this cake bake overnight. Because it bakes slowly at a low temperature, it never cracks, never dries out ...

In this dramatic-looking dessert, crisp disks of hazelnut meringue alternate with moist sponge cake, vanilla-flavored...

Except for a minuscle amount of fat in the cocoa powder in the cake and in the chocolate shavings on top, this is a t...

These individual baked Alaskas are made in tartlet molds with a chocolate cookie crumb crust. Serve them with warm ch...

This delicate golden cake combines sweet and tart, tender and crisp. The meringue bakes right on top of the cake batt...

This rich cake was inspired by the Dirty Banana, a blender drink author Tracey Seaman enjoyed more than once during a...

Intensely chocolatey but amazingly light, this dessert makes a perfect ending to even a substantial meal.

This cake was inspired by Boston cream pie, a yellow cake with custard filling and chocolate frosting. This cake's mo...

The spices in this cake remind author Tracey Seaman of apple pie and mulled cider. If you want a final flourish, serv...

Chefs Bruce and Susan Molzan created this delicious cake served with buttery maple sauce when they worked at a ski re...

Pastry chef Michelle Bracken made a German Chocolate Cake shaped like her husband's, chef Bill Bracken, German shephe...

This cake is delicious served on its own with a dusting of confectioners' sugar and a dollop of whipped cream.

These moist cupcakes are guaranteed to satisfy the most serious chocoholics.

This rich, solid chocolate dessert is one that can easily be called "killer."

The inspiration for this cake comes from Diana Sturgis's mother-in-law's German apple kuchen and a fruit cake I once ...