Cake

The genius part of this rich and moist sheet cake recipe is the “reverse creaming” method. Instead of creaming butter and sugar before adding the liquid ingredients and flour, you’ll gradually add the liquid ingredients into the flour. As a result, the cake bakes almost perfectly flat—no domed tops, no layers to trim.

Equal parts fruit crumble and coffee cake, this not-too-sweet dessert starts out bright pink but bakes to a toasty golden brown.

Carnation malted milk powder, we love you (and this devilish cake) so, so much. If you're using an 8½x4½" pan, you should hold back 1 cup batter.

If you only have an 8½x4½" pan, there’s no need to go out and get a new one. Simply hold back about 1¾ cups batter for later—it makes a mean waffle!

What's better than cake? Breakfast cake. This one is even (almost) healthy.

It's worth taking a break from dancing to grab one of these desserts.

We have a storied history of publishing extremely complicated wedding cakes. Let's take a trip down memory lane.

Check out these 10 wedding-cake trends to help inspire your custom dessert.

We all know it: A lot of wedding cake is well, bad. Here's how to make sure that doesn't happen.

For extra texture, trick out your cake with rainbow or chocolate sprinkles, chopped candies, or your favorite cereal.

Room temperature cream cheese and butter are key to a smooth frosting (cold ingredients will form hard beads). Take them both out of the refrigerator three hours ahead of time.

Rhubarb-Almond Cake is an easy and elegant springtime dessert. Learn how to make it in this video.

Look for culinary lavender at specialty food stores, tea and spice shops, or online.

This reader requested recipe is from the April 2003 issue (pictured above).

It might feel like you’re beating the batter for a long time, but that’s what gives this cake an airy lift. Stay with it!

Want to bake a better birthday cake? Milk Bar's Christina Tosi and Bon Appétit's Alison Roman show you the ways to towering, sweet, frosted success.

Is this birthday cake a project? Yes, it certainly is. But you can tackle it one component at a time and work well in advance of party day. Watch the video here.

There’s nothing like a moist, fluffy, berry-streaked cake to make any weeknight (or, um, weekday morning) feel special.

A good pound cake is hard to find—but you can definitely make one at home. Crack the code with these tips from our test kitchen.

Brownie-haters of the world, unite. These non-chocolate desserts are just for you.

As if you need another reason to make this madeleine recipe for dessert: The batter can be prepped the day before.

Because it contains more essential oils, whole grain rye flour can spoil quickly. Store the unused portion in the fridge or freezer.

This could be sweet and mild or more savory, depending on the olive oil you use. It’s all good.

For smaller loaves, divide dough and nut paste mixture into four portions instead of two and bake in four mini loaf pans—for 40–45 minutes.