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
Red Wine Chocolate Cake
Perfect for dinner parties, low-key birthday cakes or to cope with the stress of an election year, here’s a recipe that combines a few of our favorite things:…
Salted Caramel Frosting
Ingredients 1/2 cup (1 stick or 115g) unsalted butter 1 cup (200g) packed light or dark brown sugar (I prefer dark) 5 – 6 Tablespoons heavy cream,…
Cake Mix Hack: Easy Ways to Improve Boxed Cake Mix
Simple swaps with milk, butter, an extra egg, and vanilla can give boxed cake mix richer flavor. Learn how to adapt the package directions for better results.
Ooey Gooey Butter Cake
Ingredients Cake 1 package yellow cake mix 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), melted Filling 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, room temperature 2…
The Ode to Elvis Poke Cake
Ingredients For the Cake 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened 4 eggs 1 (18.25 oz.) box Duncan Hines butter golden cake mix 2/3…
Salted Caramel Poke Cake
Yellow cake soaked in cheesecake pudding and salted caramel, topped with Cool Whip and a salted caramel swirl. Ingredients 1 – 9×13 yellow cake, prepared (box mix or…
Almond Sheet Cake
The term sheet cake reminds me of grocery stores. It conjures up bakeries with fluorescent lighting and dry yellow cake with tooth-achingly sweet buttercream balloons piped on top.…
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Ingredients 1 1/2 cups sugar Scant 1 cup cake flour (not self-rising) 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 ounce semisweet chocolate, grated…
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Chocolate Angel Food Cake is delightfully light and fluffy and will be a real treat for chocolate lovers. Top with powdered sugar and strawberries and you have a…
Boston Cream Cupcakes
Boston cream bismarcks have been my favorite bakery treat since I was a child, so I put together this easy-to-make cupcake version. Ingredients 3 tablespoons shortening 1/3 cup…
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