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Forget the boxed version you grew up with. This yellow cake recipe gets a rich dark-chocolate frosting with a touch of tang thanks to sour cream. For the best presentation, it’s important to cut the cake layers evenly. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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If there’s only one cake you ever learn to make, let it be this: a classic with soft, colorful vanilla cake layers and a rich chocolate-sour cream frosting.
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A smidge of almond extract delivers a boost of flavor to our best vanilla cake recipe, and the cream cheese buttercream frosting takes it over the top.
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The nostalgic yellow cake flavor in cupcake form. If using a darker muffin tin, keep an eye on the edges—those pans encourage more browning, and you might end up removing these from the oven a few minutes earlier. Get the recipe for vanilla cream cheese frosting here. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
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For extra texture, trick out your cake with rainbow or chocolate sprinkles, chopped candies, or your favorite cereal.
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How do you make chocolate sheet cake better? Just add brown butter frosting, whose nuttiness is enhanced by an ingredient found in most grocery stores.
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This homemade cream cheese frosting can be used to add a pleasantly sweet and tangy note to almost any cupcake, layer cake, or any recipe that calls for buttercream.
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Cake flour gives these classic white cupcakes a very fine, tender crumb, and the high ratio of egg whites to yolks ensures a snowy hue. Get the recipe for vanilla cream cheese frosting here.
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Fruity olive oil means this fudgy cake will stay moist for days.
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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.
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Our best gluten-free chocolate cake recipe combines oat and rice flours for a tender fudgy all-occasion dessert. The pudding-like frosting is just a bonus.
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Extremely plush, fine-crumbed, and dare-we-say moist, this is like the best wedding cake—and you mix it entirely by hand.
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Both frosted and unfrosted, one supermarket brand was the undisputed champ.
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Recipes for whatever 2023 throws at you, from a birthday-worthy confetti cake to a show-stopping PB&J dome cake.
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Whether you're trying to impress a date or taking the whole thing straight to the dome, this flourless chocolate cake is what you need.
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Learn how to make chocolate cake, the easy, intermediate, and advance ways.
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We have embarked on a taste test tour of supermarket foods. Today's topic: chocolate icing.
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We tested every mix from Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, Dolly Parton, and more to determine which box is worthy of your birthday.
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Seize the day with our carrot cake with cream cheese frosting recipe!
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Shilpa Uskokovic spent days in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen making tray after tray of red velvet cake to develop her perfect recipe. Watch as she experiments with every variable to arrive at the ultimate red velvet—from the rich chocolatey taste to the fluffiest cream frosting—before publishing it for Bon Appétit.
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Get the entire recipe, plus access to over 50,000 more from Bon Appetit and Epicurious: https://bit.ly/3uLqs8D
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You'll never buy the boxed version again. And there's no need to worry about multiple tiers and pans when it's all baked on one sheet pan. We made the sprinkles optional, but they're a must-have in our opinion.
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Brighten up a birthday with our chocolate birthday cake recipe!
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Get the buttercream frosting ready and let's do this thing.
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Join chef Samantha Seneviratne as she makes Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake with Caramel Cream from the home kitchen. Perfect for warmer summer months when turning the oven on is the last thing on your mind, Sam's recipe sees ginger cookies soften into layers of tender cake surrounded by loads of raspberries and lofty caramel cream.
Get the recipe: Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake
More no-bake desserts, right this way →
Get the recipe: Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake
More no-bake desserts, right this way →