Top 10 List: Best Cake Recipes (2024)

Emmanuel Munkhondia — September 9, 2022 @ 11:03 am Reply

I want to know how to bake cakes chocolate

Ahmed — July 4, 2022 @ 2:12 am Reply

it looks so amazing and am famished

Linda — May 25, 2022 @ 3:40 pm Reply

I can’t wait to make the German Chocolate Cake. Every cake I have made from you has turned out amazing!

George — April 13, 2022 @ 7:29 pm Reply

This all looks amazing (:

Jeannette Bailey — August 17, 2021 @ 11:56 pm Reply

White cake coconut icing

Liz — August 30, 2017 @ 3:49 pm Reply

when making ared velvet cake can I use powdered food colour

gcobisa makita — May 18, 2017 @ 8:46 am Reply

i love your cakes. please tell me if you have ingredience to try at home

Maria — February 22, 2017 @ 10:44 pm Reply

That peanut butter cup cake broke my focus (and made me drool!) so much that I hardly noticed the salted caramel apple cake (swoon!). YUM and YUM!

These cakes look awesome Michelle! I am a snickers bars and a peanut butter cup candy lover so both of the Snickers Cake and Peanut Butter Overloaded Cake are calling out to me! But that Ultimate Cookies and Cream Oreo Cake looks so stunning! I always seem to gravitate to oreo cookie recipes. I used to make alot of ganach style layer cakes and have not made a cake in a long time. You certainly are inspiring me with this Top 10 Cake List!

Colleen — February 22, 2017 @ 4:40 pm Reply

Mmmmm…..cake! Coconut. Carrot with cream cheese frosting. Lemon with berry sauce on the side (Sarah Moulton). Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. OK, let’s get real, any cake is my favorite.

Kim — February 22, 2017 @ 4:21 pm Reply

I can attest to how good the German Chocolate Cake is. I was NOT a fan of this cake before I made it but someone requested a wedding cake made completely out of GCC and this is the recipe I used. It was delish and I had a million positive comments on it at the wedding.

Tessa M Huff — February 22, 2017 @ 10:37 am Reply

Do you e make Swiss or Italian meringue buttercream. I love that so much better than American buttercream now. It’s a little more involved, but I think it’s worth it! A little harder too when you have a 2 year old helper ?

Debra — February 22, 2017 @ 7:44 am Reply

One of my favorite cakes: https://bakingfamily.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/the-mystery-of-queen-elizabeth-cake/

Miro — February 22, 2017 @ 6:17 am Reply

Number 10, the ultimate cookies & cream Oreo cake, was a birth cake made by my husband two years ago. I hide the leftovers in the freezer for a month afterwards and secretly savored the awesomeness of it all the while longer. Hands down, an epic cake.

asliceofbread.co.uk — November 4, 2016 @ 7:17 pm Reply

Spent a long time over this but finally settled on the Snickers cake…. just. The Peanut Butter Cup Overload pushed it very close!

Errol

pooja — March 14, 2016 @ 6:55 am Reply

Yammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy

jose — February 25, 2016 @ 1:22 pm Reply

so you like texas sheet cake more than the chocolate cake with whipped cream mocha ganache? they both look like great choices, but the latter looks a little bit more exquisiste

charlene — June 7, 2015 @ 9:08 pm Reply

Thowes look good

manoj singh — June 7, 2015 @ 9:34 am Reply

I iike cakes and I am burning ….

JoleeStudio — April 20, 2015 @ 7:05 am Reply

I want the Reece cup cake!!! They all look amazing!

Oh man I wish I had a slice of one of these right now. They all look amazing; it wouldn’t matter which one I had.

Jorie Kapp — March 22, 2015 @ 5:18 pm Reply

This all look great!

Your cakes are lovely! I cannot wait to try them out.

Regards,
Brigitta

Jess B — March 19, 2015 @ 11:58 am Reply

I have been thinking about the peanut butter cup overload cake since it was posted last year 4 days (!!!) after my birthday. I have had it bookmarked to make for this year! I made it Tuesday for an early 30th birthday celebration with friends last night and it was such a hit! The chocolate cake was wonderful and is still amazingly moist (even though the whole thing was sliced up so I ate pre-sliced cake for breakfast…with bacon) and the frosting is amazing! Super decadent, and exactly what I wanted for my 30th. Thanks for a great recipe! Now, I need to find some more excuses to bake cake to try out some of these other recipes…

Kari — March 17, 2015 @ 9:24 pm Reply

I miss Rum Cake from my honeymoon. I guess I will have to make it at home!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com

Mmmmm cake heaven!

Linda — March 17, 2015 @ 12:51 am Reply

My first time of hearing of a Ho Ho Cake but it sure sounds good. Have made the Texas Sheet Cake many times and love to make the Pumpkin Roll. Love anything with peanut butter in it.

Melissa Dumitru — March 16, 2015 @ 10:58 pm Reply

I am really enjoying your daily blogs and gloriously mouth watering pictures of food I want to eat and cook. So far I have only managed to look at the pictures but its still a joy, so thank you. Keep up the great work, from a devoted foodie now running a non profit who is too tired to cook!!! Cheers M x

I always used to request Angel Food Cake for my birthday because traditional cake just didn’t do it for me. It takes a really special cake recipe for me to say, “Wow, that was good.” I will have to give some of these a try!

Barbara — March 16, 2015 @ 5:25 pm Reply

My all time favorite is your Perfect Party Cake
(March 29, 2008). It has the best ever meld of flavors.

Jamie — March 16, 2015 @ 12:16 pm Reply

I want to make all the cakes! Except the pumpkin one – blech, pumpkin. :) Everything I’ve made from your recipes has turned out amazing. Now I want cake…

Margie — March 16, 2015 @ 10:57 am Reply

Your cakes are the absolute best!! They look gorgeous and taste even better. I think that the peanut butter overload cake is the only one of the ten I haven’t made yet.

your snickers cake is AMAZZZZZZZZING!!!!! [yes, it requires all the Z’s and exclamation points]

Oh man I wish I had the chocolate peanut butter thang going on at home right now! I don’t have my own personal favorite cake right now…work in progress?

Joke — March 16, 2015 @ 5:03 am Reply

I LOVE LOVE your snickers cake, i’ve made it two times and my family is still talking about it. Next up is the blueberry buckle :)

Jessica — March 15, 2015 @ 7:18 pm Reply

I have also made the Hershey’s Chocolate Cake Recipe and it is AMAZING. I have officially stopped looking for chocolate cake recipes. It’s my one and only! Will have to try making some of these other cakes – especially the homemade tiramisu and carrot cakes :-P. Thanks so much for sharing your faves!

pomelo — July 28, 2014 @ 9:35 am Reply

hmmmm!!!i luv cakes,,its so yammy…i want 2 bake diff. flavors of cakes someday @..i want 2 try all of those rcipes.

Baker in need — May 11, 2014 @ 12:54 pm Reply

Today is Mother’s Day and I want to make a 3 layered cake but my mom doesn’t like cake what should I make the three layered not cake out of please anwser fast I need your answer right away

Cayla — April 29, 2014 @ 9:13 am Reply

These recipes look delicious I will have to try one one day.

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nancy — October 23, 2013 @ 5:26 am Reply

They all look yummy!!! I love cakes

Mikamaika — April 16, 2013 @ 9:14 pm Reply

it looks so yummy!

jujie — February 12, 2013 @ 7:10 am Reply

oh… thanks for all great ideas.. i just enjoyed my red velvet cakes (bakes in my tiny oven) and the whole family thought i bought it from cake house… !! great experience…

RisaG — May 14, 2011 @ 9:40 pm Reply

My absolute favorite of all time is Ebinger’s Black Out Cake. There is a great recipe for it in Molly O’Neill’s New York Cookbook. She got the recipe from one of the family member’s of Ebinger’s Bakery before they went out of business.

I also love a really good cheesecake and last is Boston Cream Pie, which is not a pie but a cake. I had the real thing at the Parker House Hotel, where it was created, last summer.

I have made the Ebinger’s Black Out Cake a few times. It is a wonderful cake. Soooo chocolate-y.

I love any kind of ice cream cake, but especially ones that have a crunchy layer in them. Sanders Bumpy Cake is also pretty incredible. I once made a toffee candy cake that I had to put a lock on so I wouldn’t keep sneaking slivers of it. Crumb cake definitely reminds me of my childhood in NYC. I can’t wait to try your recipe.

Trying to determine my fave is like trying to figure out which arm is my favorite. They’re all fabulous! I’d made up my mind to back off cakes for a bit. Hmmmmm, may have to rethink that. You’ve whet my appetite.

Jarrelle — May 11, 2011 @ 11:20 am Reply

You are fabulous!!! I have 2 birthdays to make cakes for and using 2 of them from your top 10!! Thank you so much for sharing! I cannot wait to make these:)

I doubt I could say no to any of the cakes you pictured above, but if I have to choose one that I absolutely love, I would say “Tuxedo Cake” :)

Fig and almond cheesecake PLEASE! :D

Tracy — May 10, 2011 @ 1:07 pm Reply

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!

Emily Malloy @Cleanliness — May 10, 2011 @ 12:20 pm Reply

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 …

alex — May 9, 2011 @ 1:51 pm Reply

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!

Katie — May 9, 2011 @ 12:47 pm Reply

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!

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. :)

Dawn — May 9, 2011 @ 9:27 am Reply

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!

Silvia — May 9, 2011 @ 8:34 am Reply

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!

Become a Chef — May 9, 2011 @ 6:04 am Reply

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.

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!

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!