Cakes
Cinnamon roll cake, hot fudge cake, and other bakes bring different crumb textures and finishes to this collection. Browse cakes for slicing, layering, or serving warm with a suitable accompaniment.
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Cake Fillings
Chocolate peanut butter mousse, strawberry cream, and apricot preparations offer different cake fillings. Choose a component for its flavor and texture, considering how it will sit between or inside the baked layers.
Cupcakes
Chocolate-chile cupcakes and green chile cornbread cupcakes offer distinctive flavors in an individual bake. These small cakes provide room for fillings and frostings to change the finished serving.
Frosting & Icing
Cream cheese icing, maple glaze, and other finishes bring sweetness and texture to a bake. These frostings and icings offer options to spread, pipe, or pour as the recipe directs.
In this collection
Pecan Torte
Need a dessert in a hurry? Whether you need to bring a dish to a work function or a casual party, this torte is a must-have for those…
Homemade Grease-and-Flour Pan Release
A mixture of shortening, oil, and flour can coat pans for recipes that call for greasing and flouring. It is not suitable for recipes that require an ungreased…
Mississippi Mud Pie (aka Muddy Mississippi Cake)
Layers of crumbly cookie crust, rich chocolate cake, and creamy pudding make this Mississippi mud pie from Matt Lewis’s “Baked Explorations” cookbook the ultimate indulgence for chocolate lovers.…
Fruit Cocktail Cake
Fruit cocktail cake has always been one of my favorite cakes. When I found this recipe in my Cooking with Paula Deen magazine last summer, it went straight…
1-Dish Caramel Pecan Coffee Cake
Batter Mazola® Cooking Spray 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 2 envelopes Fleischmann’s® RapidRise Yeast 2 tablespoons sugar ½ teaspoon salt ¾ cup very warm water (120°F to 130°F) 2…
Cake Flour Substitute: Corrected Measurements
All-purpose flour mixed with cornstarch is a useful approximation when a recipe permits a cake-flour substitute. It is not identical to every commercial cake flour. Recipe at a…
Caramel Apple Upside-Down Cornmeal Cake
A buttery mixture of apples, pecans, and cranberries tops flakey cornmeal cake. Serve it with a scoop of cinnamon ice cream. 6 Tablespoons. butter 4 medium apples, peeled,…
Marbelous Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake with Salted Caramel Glaze
Edwina Gadsby, of Great Falls, Montana, won the $2,500 Dessert category in the 2010 Annual Recipe Challenge with her company-worthy bundt cake. Nonstick cooking spray 2 cups all-purpose…
Whole Wheat Chocolate-Blueberry Cake
Dorothy Olsen, of Provo, Utah, won both the $25,000 Grand Prize and the Good and Healthy category in the 2010 Annual Recipe Challenge with her delicious and wholesome…
Green Tomato Breakfast Cake
Before the first frost hits, harvest your green tomatoes and whip together this breakfast cake. The recipe is based on a 40-year-old recipe for plum cake that first…
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