Cake

Miso and 100% whole wheat flour add salty-nutty complexity to this super tender crumb cake.

Tender, nutty, and studded with caramel-glazed apple halves, Claire Saffitz’s apple cake is the best apple cake. (There, we said it.)

One bite of this piña colada–inspired tres leches cake and you’ll understand why it earned the moniker “three sheets to the wind.”

Don’t be surprised at how quickly this olive oil and cornmeal-enriched sheet cake will disappear.

Pure homemade birthday love. If you've got a bowl, a cheap hand mixer, and a couple of measuring cups, you can make this rich, chocolatey cake.

The most casual-cool carrot cake of all time.

Why shouldn’t sticky toffee pudding be baked in a classic Bundt shape and bathed in a salted toffee sauce? Yep, we couldn’t think of a reason either.

This (gluten-free!) flourless chocolate cake is decadent, rich, and super-easy to make.

Everybody has heard of molten chocolate cake, so we thought we’d try to create a caramel version, with a toffee-ish tender cake encasing a runny dulce de leche center.

Earthy-sweet beet purée gives this gluten-free chocolate cake a beautiful red velvet hue.

This is the light, fluffy, cloudlike cheesecake that wants to get burnt, cracked, and cooked at high heat. Which also means this is the cheesecake that’s impossible to mess up.

Pumpkin Spice Bread gets all grown up thanks to the addition of fresh ginger in this super-moist no-fuss bread with a crunchy pumpkin seed topping.

Every cook should have at least one good dessert up their sleeve, and this classic, lightly-glazed lemon pound cake should be yours.

Meet your new favorite birthday cake.

CINNAMON. CRUMBLE.

There's cake under there, we swear!

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

Stacks on stacks on stacks.