Make sure that your bananas are soft and ripe to give the banana cake the best flavor and texture. This recipe forms the base of our Banana Split Bombe dessert.
White cake is layered with a fruit and nut filling and slathered with fluffy frosting in this traditional Southern dessert. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode 709.
Honey lovers, this cake's for you! The batter and double glazes get their sweetness from the golden liquid produced by hard-working bees. Savory sage and citrusy lemon zest offer balance to this crowd-pleasing...
This extravagant dessert has everything: ice cream, nuts, fluffy marshmallow, and enough satisfyingly cakey bits to hold it all together. Sometimes more is better.
This cake can be made in advance, but we love it when the filling is warm and syrupy. If you have about 20 minutes to make the filling just before assembling the cake, go for it.
This decadent dessert is courtesy of chefs Matt and Ted Lee, from their book "Simple, Fresh, Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor."Photo credit: Ben Fink
Five pastel layers form this colorful creation. You can also use the batter to make four dozen cupcakes or a two- or three-layer cake (bake each layer a few minutes longer than instructed). Use our Seven-Minute...
This beautifully textured cake is soft, crumbly, and crunchy all at once-a crowd-pleasing dessert you can serve all year. Semolina flour gives the light and tender interior a bit of heartiness, and almond...
The key to this recipe's moist crumb? You guessed it: yogurt. Emblazoned with thick pieces of rhubarb--in peak season in early spring--it's a next-level spring dessert. Temper the vegetable's sour notes...
Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, adapted from Essential Emeril: Favorite Recipes and Hard-Won Wisdom From My Life in the Kitchen, Oxmoor House, 2015, courtesy Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
For our fanciful pinecones, oval almond cakes are crafted with cookie cutters, covered with chocolate frosting, and topped with "scales," each one a carefully arranged almond slice.
A showstopping holiday dessert that's a piece of cake? Meet this four-layer chocolate confection, which comes together from a one-bowl batter and three-ingredient frosting. Coconut oil gives it an especially...
Serve slices of this cake along with a cup of Ceylon black tea. Light and subtle, the tea's honey and citrus flavors make it a natural foil for a variety of fruits, buttery cakes, and custard desserts...
This ursine chocolate cake gets its soft and fuzzy look from icing piped on with a grass tip. With his chubby belly, constructed from a mound of cake, he's almost too cute to eat.
A tasty dessert full of carrots, nuts, and spices, this Passover cake is dusted with a mixture of granulated sugar and potato starch instead of confectioners' sugar, which contains cornstarch, a non-kosher...
The white shade of this frosting belies the fresh mint flavor, which is achieved by steeping fresh mint in milk when making the custard base, and then adding extract at the end for extra intensity. Use...
Homemade gingerbread cookies stand in for the store-bought chocolate wafers in the well-known version of this nostalgic treat, and are arranged in freestanding circles rather than in a loaf shape. A sweet-tart...
To make this Northeastern interpretation of an old-fashioned upside-down cake, cranberries and toasted pecans are topped with buttery batter, and then baked and inverted. The cranberries soften in the...
With its luxuriously rich filling and real-fruit topping, cheesecake commanded a relatively steep price at 20th-century diners. One bite of this classic provided all the justification anyone needed.
The ice cream version of the classic Italian dessert builds on the traditional flavors by using vanilla and coffee ice cream alongside homemade ladyfingers. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode...
Mini but mighty, these rich, Middle Eastern-inspired rings are made with half flour, half ground pistachios (for a vivid-green color, seek out the blanched Sicilian variety), and flavored with pistachio...
Ground cardamom adds a soothing aroma and unique flavor to this classic crumb-cake recipe from reader Suzanne Shuey of Shippensburg, PA. If you don't like cardamom, you can substitute ground ginger or...
A silky cheesecake made with cream cheese and sour cream -- and featuring melted bitter-sweet chocolate, cocoa powder, plus a chocolate-wafer crust -- is a lesson in decadence.
Martha takes tres leches cake to the next level by adding yet another milk. The vanilla-flecked batter is enriched with milk powder, whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. Finish with whipped...
Bring some drama to the table with this jam-filled vanilla cake topped with ethereal meringue. It's just the recipe to make use of juicy raspberries when they're in season.