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23 Sheet Cake Recipes for Big Crowds (or Just You)
For bake sales, birthday parties, or just a week of snacking.
By Joe Sevier and The Editors of Epicurious
Crumb Cake Is Better When It’s Mostly Crumb
To make this morning staple the New Jersey way, we’re talking a 1:1 ratio of soft crumb to tender cake.
By Rebecca Firkser
New Jersey Crumb Cake
New Jersey crumb cake has evolved into a ratio of at least half, if not more, moist crumb topping to cake.
By Rebecca Firkser
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37 Birthday Cake Recipes to Make All Your Wishes Come True
Gifts are nice and all, but nothing beats homemade birthday cake.
By Emily Saladino and The Editors of Epicurious
Angel Food Cake With Whipped Chocolate Frosting
Luscious, fluffy whipped cream icing transforms angel cake into an impossibly dreamy dessert.
By Judy Collins
Texas Sheet Cake
Don’t mess with lush chocolate cake, fudgy frosting, and crunchy toasted pecans. (Who would want to?)
By Julie Richardson
Lemon Chiffon Cake
By Kathy Specht
Lemon-Blueberry Quick Bread
A classic lemon-blueberry bread is a thing of beauty. Plush lemon cake studded with jammy, perfectly suspended blueberries gets coated in a glossy, dripping glaze.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Lemon Pound Cake
With fewer than 10 ingredients and bright flavor, there’s never a wrong time to make this crowd-pleasing dessert.
By Darren DiPietro
The Secret to Level Cake Layers? Toothpicks
Build towering multilayer cakes with this stress-free technique.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Smith Island Cake
This Smith Island Cake recipe boasts eight layers of yellow cake covered in a blanket of chocolate ganache.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Flourless Chocolate Cake
This flourless chocolate cake is rich and densely chocolaty. It’s just the kind of low-effort, high-reward recipe we love.
By The Gourmet Test Kitchen
Chocolate Cupcakes
Buttermilk makes the chocolate cupcakes moist and fluffy, and using oil instead of butter means they keep well.
By Zoe Denenberg
Moravian Sugar Cake
If a coffee cake and a focaccia had a baby, it would look something like this Moravian sugar cake.
By Casey Elsass
How to Keep Your Rhubarb Cake From Getting Soggy
Rhubarb is juicy, which can spell disaster in a cake. Here’s how to bake one that doesn’t sog out.
By Jesse Szewczyk
Rhubarb Cake
This rhubarb cake recipe keeps things simple and scatters thinly sliced fresh rhubarb on top of the cake
By Jesse Szewczyk
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37 Mother’s Day Cakes That’ll Make Mama Swoon
Layers of chocolate, frills of coconut, tangy lemon-glazed and rhubarb-studded: You’ve hit the cake motherlode.
By Joe Sevier and The Editors of Epicurious
The Best Bundt Pan, Tested and Reviewed
Cake pans are more than just round and square.
By Allison Robicelli
Super Easy Vanilla Cupcakes
A swoosh of buttercream is all you need to finish off this easy vanilla cupcake recipe.
By Amy Sedaris
This Iconic Louisiana Cake Adds Coconutty Crunch to a Classic Bundt
This favorite from church functions and community gatherings is somewhere between a pound cake and a coffee cake, with loads of toasty coconut on the exterior.
By Vallery Lomas