Top 10 List: Best Cake Recipes
[We continue to update the “Top 10” series of posts with cakes!]
It took me quite awhile to come around on the subject of cake. Growing up, I stopped requesting traditional cake for my birthday somewhere around middle school. My mom always asked what we’d like, and by then I no longer found plain birthday cake appealing and began asking for either ice cream cakes or cheesecakes. Now, I still love both of those options, but once I started to dabble in baking, I found that cakes can be totally amazing, especially if you enjoy getting creative!
Needless to say, I now revel in making cakes at home. Below is an updated list of my 10 favorite cake recipes… Enjoy!
1. Classic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
2. Coconut Bundt Cake with White Chocolate-Coconut Glaze
6. Peanut Butter Cup Overload Cake
10. Ultimate Cookies and Cream Oreo Cake
Q: What’s YOUR favorite cake recipe?
You know, I am not a huge cake fan either, but I have to say that I LOVE Dorie’s Perfect Party Cake. It is my favorite cake ever, hands down. But all of your cakes look delicious!
Oh how I continually enjoy everything that you post!
I hope you realize how inspiring you are!!! :)
Wonderful selection for your top 10. Now to try and decide which would be my favourite but that Apple Pie Cake is brand-new to me and looks delicious.
So many good cakes to choose from here! I particularly like chocolate sheet cake, and the layered chocolate cake you have here looks fabulous. Lately I’ve been experimenting with chocolate angel food cake, which is a nice lighter way to get my chocolate fix. Thanks for sharing these!
Oh wow, this is incredible!! I want them all! But especially the brownie mosaic cheese cake and the peanut butter torte. Beautiful!
Wow all your cakes look gorgeous especially that chocolate peanut butter torte!
Yum, all of them, especially tiramisu…
It’s funny you say you don’t like cakes, in the sense of those white birthday cakes with frosting. I don’t like them neither, but I don’t even call them cakes :-). Your collection above is what I call cakes, and I absolutely love them. My favorite cake at the moment is probably dark chocolate mousse cake :-)
Mmmmm! All of these cakes look beautiful!
I wish I hadn’t read this post. Rather, I wish I hadn’t read this post while we are in the middle of our 10-week Challenge. Now I must go and cry somewhere… but first I will print all of these off and save them for when I can make them :)
I really want to try your brownie mosia and apple pie cakes.
My favorites though are german chocolate and italian cream cakes.
I want to make so many of these cakes! I’m glad you’re doing these “top favorite” posts, it’s a great way to see some of the oldies you have on your blog. I’ll be bookmarking a few of these! Thank you. :)
Ooooh, looking at all these cake I want some right now …
I just love cake! I want to try all of these. It’s so nice to be able to read what people liked and didn’t like! thanks!
Ohhh wow. This is tempting me to bake even though I just made a lemon layer cake yesterday! That brownie cheesecake is for sure a show stopper, everyone raves when I make it. Also have made your peanut butter torte and chocolate cake (which is also my go-to cake!) and love them. The one fail I had was with the Perfect Party Cake, but after reading more reviews on other blogs seems many people struggled with the cake being dense and not right. Sign my up for that tiramisu, it’s definitely on my list!
hi i would like to have recipe how to make the best and yummiest cake ever:)
Ooh, and how could I forget an upside-down plum cake from Real Simple? I made it four times last summer alone!
I love cake! Lemon cake, cranberry upside down cake, all kinds of chocolate cake (including an amazing four-layer one with salted caramel and chocolate ganache I made from a recipe in Bon Appetit in probably 2009). Team Cake! :-)
I have tried the Hershey Perfectly Chocolate chocolate cake recipe and it used to be my go to recipe until I discovered One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes (Martha Stewart Baking cookbook). If I don’t have any dutch process cocoa (my preferred cocoa) on hand, I just use regular Hershey’s Cocoa and the cake turns out well. I frost it with the chocolate frosting recipe on the back of the Hershey cocoa can–I’ll use dutch process cocoa for the frosting if I used it in the cake recipe– or I fill it the cake with cookies and cream filling (love oreos and whipped cream!) and frost with chocolate ganache. Ooh, I also sometimes fill the cake with a whipped peanut butter ganache and top with chocolate ganache…it’s like a big Reese’s cup cake.
I made your white cake and loved it. I filled it with lemon curd. Yum! Your brownie cheesecake looks wonderful!
I want them ALL:)
I feel exactly the same way about cake. I really need to bake that brownie cheesecake now!
Wish I saw this earlier, my mom loooves carrot cake but hasn’t found a “good” recipe for one yet, would’ve been perfect to make for mother’s day. Bookmarking it to try one day though, thanks! And your photos are drool-worthy, I want to eat all of those cakes. Now. :)
Well I just gained 10lbs looking at these recipes, good choices Michelle, I have made the carrot cake from here, next I will make the crumb cake.
I’m with you–cake? I can take it or leave it. But your peanut butter chocolate cheesecake is one of THE best desserts I’ve ever made! Holy yummers! I’m really interested in that carrot cake, though! It looks amazing!
Actually I cannot make up my mind, I love so many different cakes, maybe right now it will have to be carrot cake. But I love to look at those gorgeous chocolate cakes with so many layers, even if I cannot eat cream (New lactose intolerance here)… sigh!
I’m not surprised about any of these cakes, they all look amazing! I want some cake for breakfast, now!
Great! I was supposed to start my diet today, but now I have 10 good reasons not to.
Drool City! Too early in the morning to see all this stuff! ;)
I’ve never made crumb cake before (I’m intrigued… I’ve never heard of it – perhaps it’s not an English thing), but I have a recipe for an apple streusel cake that has never let me down. It’s kind of my go-to-cake for when I don’t have a lot of time but still want something delicious for dessert.
it is delicious I have made it several times now and its a hit with whole family.
Me? I LOVE cake! all kinds. I used to shoot and edit wedding videos and my husband always knew when I was editing the “cake” shots because he’d come home to cupcakes. I could have really used this post then.
My favorite cake is a triple coconut cake. Among your top ten, I’d love to try the Russian Grandmother’s Apple Pie-Cake!
Well, my wife is Russian so maybe I should make that cake for her. Anyhow, I think the Ho Ho cake looks really good. Once in awhile, I bring a dessert into work for um, continuance of friendly co-worker relationships (to make people happy). But being a teacher, I don’t think I’ll call it “Ho Ho cake” because kids are immature. Come to think of it, we all have our immature moments probably because we work with 9th graders all day!
Oh great, now its 10pm at night and all I want is a huge peice of cake! THANKS! Just kidding, all of these recipes look amazing can’t wait to try a few!