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Best Cocoa Brownies

Cocoa brownies have the softest center and chewiest candylike top "crust" of all because all of the fat in the recipe (except for a small amount of cocoa butter in the cocoa) is butter, and all of the...

Author: Alice Medrich

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

This cake, thought to have first appeared in the 1920s, has had such names as pineapple glacé and pineapple skillet cake.

Triple Layer Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

An easy Triple-Layer Carrot Cake recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Author: Becky Guyton

Ice Cream Cone Cake

Kids (and more than a few adults) will almost certainly shriek with joy at the sight of this fantasy dessert. Golden, buttery cake layers sandwich chocolate cookie crumbs and are topped with a custard...

Author: Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez

Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake with Buttermilk Icing

When the pumpkin pie is gone, but you've only just begun to get your fill of pumpkin desserts, this bundt will fill the void quite nicely (and the somewhat more assertive spices will welcome the season...

Fresh Ginger Cake

This is the most often requested recipe in my repertoire, and I've passed it on to many, many people. It appears so often on Bay Area menus (sometimes called Dave's ginger cake, which, I admit, amuses...

Author: David Lebovitz

Banana Coconut Muffins

These moist, easy muffins rely on mashed bananas and flaked coconut for sublime texture and tropical-leaning flavor.

Sunshine Cake

Even in its simplicity, there's something about this buttery almond cake that just feels special. Baking it in a pie dish allows for you to serve it straight out of the vessel, whether for breakfast or...

Author: Sheela Prakash

Berry Cream Cheese Cake

The dark brown sugar gives this cake a little molasses edge, which cuts the sweetness of the berries and the richness of the cream cheese.

Author: Yossy Arefi

Philadelphia Classic Cheesecake

The classic cheesecake features a nutty base of crushed graham crackers and a rich and fluffy cake.

Author: The Kraft Heinz Company

Apricot Coffee Cake

Author: Rick Rodgers

Whoopie Pies

We prefer Droste brand Dutch-process cocoa for this recipe because it gives the cakes a richer chocolate flavor. Though whoopie pies can be served on the same day they're made, we think the cakes are much...

Puerto Rican Pineapple Rum Cake

Chef Kris Wessel of Florida Cookery in Miami Beach, Florida, shared this recipe as part of a Palm Tree Christmas menu he created exclusively for Epicurious. At Wessel family Christmases at Grandmother...

Author: Kris Wessel

Raspberry Buttermilk Cake

Author: Melissa Roberts

Whipped Cream Cake

At first glance, this cake seems to contain no butter or oil. But on closer analysis, I discovered that the butterfat contained in the cream was more than equal to the usual amount of butter added.

Author: Rose Levy Beranbaum

Coconut Layer Cake

At Shubox Cafe, this dessert is known as Awesome Coconut Cake, aptly named by one of the cafe's best customers. To make this recipe, you'll need to buy one 15-ounce can of sweetened cream of coconut. Some...

Ozark Pudding

Author: Sheri Castle

Blackberry and Chocolate Ice Cream Icebox Cake

This easy dessert for summer is simply assembled with whipped cream, blackberry jam, chocolate graham crackers, & storebought chocolate ice cream.

Author: Kendra Vaculin

Christmas Glazed Apple Cake (Weihnachten Gedeckter Apfelkuchen)

Covered Apple Cake (Gedeckter Apfelkuchen) is one of the cakes you're sure to find in almost every single bakery across Germany. To make it, you line a springform pan with a sweet short pastry, fill the...

Author: Luisa Weiss

Old Fashioned Crumb Cake

My dad grew up in the Bronx of the 1920s and was very fond of the yeasty crumb cakes found in many German-Jewish bakeries there. He calls the moist, tender cakes "crumb buns" and loves to eat them with...

Author: Ruth Cousineau

Old Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake

Author: Marilyn Hoicowitz

Candied Holiday Fruitcake

Author: Catherine Hilburn

Blueberry Streusel Cake

We doubt you'll have any leftovers from this homey blueberry cake crowned by a buttery, brown-sugar-sweetened streusel topping, but if you do, it will make a fabulous companion to your morning coffee.

Author: Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez

Chocolate Cherry Cola Cake

I love to celebrate birthdays with the crew and my bandmates. When we're on the road, it's nice to have the band family celebrate. Jimi's birthday falls at the end of October, and I sometimes make this...

Author: Kimberly Schlapman

Gramercy Tavern Gingerbread

The use of leavening in a cake is first recorded in a recipe for gingerbread from Amelia Simmons's American Cookery, published in Hartford in 1796; I guess you could say it is the original great American...

Author: Claudia Fleming

Lemon Icebox Cake

Author: Adam Randall

Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

Small wedges of this luscious, superchocolaty cake go a long way.

Author: Jill Silverman Hough

Apple, Pear, and Cranberry Coffee Cake

Author: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.