Baked Potato Cake

  3.0 – 1 reviews  • Dessert Level: Easy Total: 2 hr 25 min Prep: 1 hr 55 min Cook: 30 min Yield: 16 to 20 Ingredients Cooking spray 2 16-to-18-ounce boxes white cake mix (plus required ingredients) 1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 tablespoon milk 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting … Read more

Walnut Cake with American Frosting

  3.7 – 3 reviews  • Nut Recipes This cake makes a perfect autumnal wedding cake – in fact, we had it for our own wedding, baked by our dear friend Dervilla. We decorated it with sparklers and dark red rose petals, which made for a rather dramatic and beautiful effect. It keeps well, so you could … Read more

Red Velvet-Cherry Cake Roll

  4.0 – 21 reviews  • Level: Easy Total: 1 hr 5 min Prep: 40 min Cook: 25 min Yield: 10 servings Ingredients Unsalted butter, for the baking sheet 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 2 cups cherry-flavored cola 2 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 … Read more

Spicy Texas Sheet Cake

  4.8 – 4 reviews  • Dessert Chocolate and chiles rule in this class on a crowd-pleasing sheet cake. The tender cake and luscious pecan-studded frosting have just the right balance of sweet and heat. Level: Easy Total: 2 hr 10 min Active: 35 min Yield: 12 servings Ingredients 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, plus more … Read more

The Best Vanilla Cake

  4.2 – 79 reviews  • Buttermilk We love the light texture that cake flour gives baked goods, but we didn’t want you to buy a whole box of it. So we used a cheat—all-purpose flour mixed with cornstarch. Cornstarch blocks the formation of gluten in the flour and makes the cake airy and tender. We also … Read more

Vanilla Wacky Cake

  4.3 – 18 reviews  • Dessert The “wacky” in the title refers to breaking all the rules of baking. Born out of necessity during the Great Depression, this cake swaps out the expected milk, butter and eggs—which were expensive and hard to find at the time—for water, oil and vinegar. And, yet, through some smart kitchen … Read more

Igloo Cake

  3.8 – 5 reviews  • Winter Level: Easy Total: 2 hr Prep: 2 hr Yield: 12-16 servings Ingredients Unsalted butter, for the pans All-purpose flour, for the pans 1 18.25-ounce box yellow cake mix (plus required ingredients) 1 pound white chocolate, chopped 1 8-ounce container white sanding sugar 2 16-ounce tubs vanilla frosting 2 drops neon … Read more

Popcorn Cake

  5.0 – 2 reviews  • Dessert Level: Intermediate Total: 1 hr 30 min Prep: 1 hr 30 min Yield: 10-12 servings Ingredients 1 18.25-ounce box yellow cake mix (plus required ingredients) 4 cups vanilla frosting Cornstarch, for dusting 1 pound white rolled fondant 1/2 pound red rolled fondant 2 to 3 cups caramel corn Instructions Prepare … Read more

Stars-and-Stripes Cake

  4.0 – 2 reviews  • Level: Intermediate Total: 2 hr 30 min Active: 1 hr Yield: 10 to 12 servings Ingredients 1 1/4 cups cake flour 1 tablespoon Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 8 large eggs, separated 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla … Read more

Galaxy Cake

  4.0 – 6 reviews  • Dessert Level: Easy Total: 10 min Active: 10 min Yield: 8 servings Instructions Galaxy cakes have exploded on Instagram, but making the mirror glaze on top can be tricky. We created this easy version using store-bought frosting instead. Place a round layer cake on an upside-down cake pan set on a … Read more