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Chocolate Banana Icebox Cake

Banana pudding with a twist, this icebox cake embraces chocolate wafers instead of the classic vanilla. After a bit of time in the fridge, the cookies...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Banana Snacking Cake With Salted Caramel Glaze

This buttery snacking cake is a bit like banana bread, but richer, and topped with a sticky caramel frosting that is dotted with crunchy flakes of sea...

Author: Melissa Clark

Tunnel of Fudge Cake

The original tunnel-of-fudge cake won second place in the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest for the late Ella Rita Helfrich of Houston. That version used...

Author: The New York Times

Whole Orange Snack Cake

It may strike you as curious, but adding an entire orange to this easy snacking cake, rind and all, imparts a wonderful flavor reminiscent of orange marmalade,...

Author: Samantha Seneviratne

Chocolate Snacking Cake With Tangerine Glaze

This moist, darkly bittersweet snacking cake is easily mixed with a whisk. Using a neutral oil rather than butter allows the chocolate flavor to shine,...

Author: Melissa Clark

Buttermilk Glazed Pineapple Carrot Cake

This easy pineapple-carrot cake first ran in The New York Times Magazine in the spring of 1972, and it is one of the recipes that former Times columnist...

Author: Jean Hewitt

Birthday Baked Alaska

Baked alaska is beautiful, elegant and dramatic. It's easy to make; it's convenient (it must be made ahead); it's got ice cream (enough said); it's got...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Chocolate Cheesecake With Graham Cracker Crunch

It's worth tasting a few brands of graham crackers to find one you particularly like - preferably one with whole-wheat flour and a good dash of salt and...

Author: Julia Moskin

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Legend has it that the St. Louis gooey butter cake originated by accident in the 1930s, when a baker mixed up the proportion of butter in one of his coffee...

Author: Melissa Clark

Lemon Drizzle Cake

This light and moist lemon poundcake has a crunchy sugar glaze that crystallizes on top, giving a contrasting texture to the soft crumb underneath. It's...

Author: Melissa Clark

Dulce de Leche Chocoflan

Also known as el pastel imposible (the impossible cake), chocoflan is a baking wonder, its layers of chocolate cake batter and dulce de leche flan swapping...

Author: Genevieve Ko

Bananas Foster Poundcake

Named after a customer at Brennan's restaurant in New Orleans, bananas Foster is traditionally served over vanilla ice cream or over pound cake. But what...

Author: Millie Peartree

Gâteau Basque

Bixente Marichular, founder of the Musée du Gâteau Basque in Sare, France, says the pastry is part of Basque patrimony: Every family has a recipe, and...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Mulling Spice Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

The spices in this cake from "Live Life Deliciously" by Tara Bench (Shadow Mountain, 2020) are, indeed, those you'd use if you were mulling cider or wine....

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Chocolate Streusel Poundcake

In this stunning dessert, a moist and soft chocolate poundcake is topped on two sides - bottom and top - with crunchy, slightly salty streusel flecked...

Author: Melissa Clark

Lemony Turmeric Tea Cake

This cake, which is adapted from "Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over," is so good and so simple to put together, you might come to call...

Author: Alison Roman

Pecan Crunch Cream Cheese Poundcake

This is an exceptionally velvety and tender cake, reminiscent (in the best possible way) of the frozen pound cake you might buy at the supermarket. Perfected...

Author: Julia Moskin

Lemon Snacking Cake With Coconut Glaze

With a poundcake-like texture and zippy lemon flavor, this tender treat is loaded with grated citrus zest and topped with a sweet, mellow coconut frosting....

Author: Melissa Clark

Hummingbird Cake

This super-simple tropical cake contains a hefty amount of mashed bananas and crushed pineapple. Often associated with the American South, where it is...

Author: Vallery Lomas

Bibingka (Coconut Rice Cakes With Banana Leaves)

Bibingka is a cake made of rice flour, so it's naturally gluten-free, chewy but tender throughout, with a soufflé-like fluffiness. It's traditionally...

Author: Angela Dimayuga

Whiskey Soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake

This recipe is a more sophisticated (and boozier) version of one found in Maida Heatter's "Book of Great Chocolate Desserts." The cake is rich, dense and...

Author: Melissa Clark

Crunchy Berry Almond Crumble

The paradox of a fruit crisp is that it's usually not crisp, nor is a fruit crumble necessarily crumbly. Here, however, the crumbs are as crisp as cookies,...

Author: Melissa Clark

Lane Cake

This version of the classic Southern cake takes all of fruitcake's best elements - bourbon-soaked dried fruit, toasty pecans and shredded coconut - and...

Author: Yewande Komolafe

Earl Grey Madeleines

Cédric Grolet, the pastry chef of Le Meurice hotel in Paris, is famous for his Instagram feed, which has nearly a million and a half followers, his tattoos...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Lisbon Chocolate Cake

On my first day in Lisbon, I became a statistic: I lost all my credit cards to a talented thief on the No. 28 tram. After "the incident," I wanted to leave...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Apricot Snack Cake

This simple and tender cake is prepared entirely in the food processor, with juicy apricots, fragrant vanilla and nutty almond flour, which accentuates...

Author: Kay Chun

Japanese Cheesecake

Japanese cheesecakes, sometimes called soufflé or cotton cheesecakes, have a melt-in-the-mouth texture that's like a classic cheesecake crossed with an...

Author: Melissa Clark

Date Cake Delicious

The women of the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club in Wichita, Kan., have been preparing lunches for each other since 1891. Originally conceived as a way...

Author: Kim Severson

Brown Sugar Roulade With Burnt Honey Apples

If the flavors of winter could be rolled into one, then this meringue roulade would be the result: Warming cinnamon, burnt honey, sweet apples and tangy...

Author: Yotam Ottolenghi

Pear Snacking Cake With Brown Butter Glaze

This moist and tender cake has a similar texture to pumpkin or banana bread, with a delicate pear flavor scented with nutmeg and a touch of clove. But...

Author: Melissa Clark

Apricot Snack Cake

This simple and tender cake is prepared entirely in the food processor, with juicy apricots, fragrant vanilla and nutty almond flour, which accentuates...

Author: Kay Chun

Miso Maple Loaf Cake

This cake, adapted from "Baking With Dorie" (Mariner Books, 2021), is comforting and surprising. The ingredients that give it its name, miso and maple...

Author: Dorie Greenspan

Chocolate Cheesecake With Graham Cracker Crunch

It's worth tasting a few brands of graham crackers to find one you particularly like - preferably one with whole-wheat flour and a good dash of salt and...

Author: Julia Moskin

Chocolate Streusel Poundcake

In this stunning dessert, a moist and soft chocolate poundcake is topped on two sides - bottom and top - with crunchy, slightly salty streusel flecked...

Author: Melissa Clark

Crunchy Berry Almond Crumble

The paradox of a fruit crisp is that it's usually not crisp, nor is a fruit crumble necessarily crumbly. Here, however, the crumbs are as crisp as cookies,...

Author: Melissa Clark

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Legend has it that the St. Louis gooey butter cake originated by accident in the 1930s, when a baker mixed up the proportion of butter in one of his coffee...

Author: Melissa Clark