Cake

How do you make chocolate sheet cake better? Just add brown butter frosting, whose nuttiness is enhanced by an ingredient found in most grocery stores.

This is our quintessential summer dessert: rich ricotta cake swirled through with jammy berries in every bite.

This plushy almond cake with toasted-sugar edges is the perfect match for sweet fruit and a dollop of softly whipped cream.

The retro classic pineapple upside-down cake gets an instant upgrade with sophisticated, fruity Luxardo cherries.

Studded with chocolate and cookies and flavored with anise-infused cream, this delightful cake is also a spectacular use for stale bread: Grind it up, then use it instead of flour.

With mashed bananas in the cake batter and sliced bananas sandwiched between the layers, our best banana cake recipe is a banana extravaganza.

Sponge cake takes a bath in sweet saffron-infused milk, emerges sunshine-yellow and ready to feed a crowd.

Light, airy, and delicately sweet, this showstopper is inspired by the layered fruit and cream cakes in Japanese bakeries.

Our favorite carrot cake recipe gets a crunch from toasted walnuts and a boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, which are optional but recommended.

A deep, dark, molten chocolate cake recipe with a liquid chocolate center thanks to a spoonful of ganache, which melts as the cake bakes.

In the spirit of Hawaiian butter mochi, this head-turning cake requires minimal cleanup and no fancy equipment.

Preserved lemons rein in the sweetness in this plush olive-oil-based loaf.

Roasting strawberries is a great way to get that Valentine’s Day staple on your dessert menu, even with out-of-season berries.

We took the classic yeasted French dessert cakes known as babas on a tropical vacation with a boozy pineapple-rum sauce and pillowy whipped coconut cream.

Each bite of this luscious, melt-in-your-mouth banana cake is crowned with a crackly sugar crust that’s worth grabbing a kitchen torch to make.

Ayesha Curry’s holiday-worthy rum cake gets its cheery flavor from two kinds of rum: spiced rum in the cake batter and dark rum in the sticky maple glaze.

Almond flour is a wonderfully sweet, nutty complement for fresh carrots, walnuts, and raisins.

This tender, gently spiced cake enrobed in dark chocolate ganache requires that you make your own sweet potato purée. And yes, it’s absolutely worth it.

These showstopping miniature baked Alaskas are as foolproof as they are impressive, plus every easy-to-make component can be made ahead of time.

When life gives you lemons, make Mina Stone's irresistibly moist and zesty olive oil cake.