Cake

When you need a sweet treat but it’s too hot to bake, make one of these oven-free desserts.

This sturdy almond-polenta cake is a gentle landing spot for fresh figs, and also happens to be gluten-free. Swap figs for plums, raspberries, or blueberries.

This buttermilk layer cake features a cloud-soft crumb and brown-butter-caramel frosting.

Like red, white, and blue layer cakes, ice cream cakes to keep you cool, and sheet cakes to feed a crowd.

Ideal for fresh blueberries in the summer or frozen blueberries all year long, this fruit-studded coffee cake is a winner any time you make it.

An all-purpose gluten-free blend does the heavy lifting here, keeping the ingredient list short and sweet.

With three times the fruit flavor, this is the only strawberry cheesecake recipe you’ll ever need.

A bit of almond meal gives this ultrarich chocolate cake an airy but toothsome crumb.

Three layers of super moist cake + two layers of creamy pudding = a chocolate lover’s dream.

Even die-hard butter devotees admit that olive oil makes exceptionally good cakes.

We’ve got your new favorite cheesecake recipe right here.

This light, fluffy, cloudlike cheesecake wants to get cooked at high heat for a burnt, cracked surface that’s rich with flavor.

Bouncier than a bobblehead and fluffier than a cloud, this cheesecake is a keeper.

From party-ready confetti cake to black sesame mochi cake, this collection has a birthday cake as special as you.

Our best gluten-free chocolate cake recipe combines oat and rice flours for a tender fudgy all-occasion dessert. The pudding-like frosting is just a bonus.

Tiny but mighty, these individual buckwheat cakes are rich and dense and bring big sticky toffee pudding energy.

This single-layer take on the classic will turn any gathering into a party.

With crunch from toasted walnuts and an optional boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, this is the only carrot cake recipe you’ll ever need.

In the Venn diagram of chocolate bakes, this recipe falls squarely in the middle of where brownie, molten chocolate cake, and chocolate soufflé meet.

With pounds of dried fruit and glugs of dark rum, this is a recipe for serious fruitcake fans.

Butternut squash shows up canned pumpkin purée in this tasty fall-forward coffee cake with crisp streusel and a spiced sugar swirl.

A little oil in this bûche de noel helps keep it pliable even when cool—perfect for rolling the Yule log shape.

When cutout cookies just won’t cut it, turn to these fanciful tortes, lazy-day snacking cakes, and festive multi-layered showstoppers.

This deliciously moist sweet potato cake recipe from Baltimore’s Crust by Mack is stacked high with thick layers of salted cream cheese frosting.