This is a ridiculously easy cake to make, with a gorgeous chocolate flavor packed with warm spices and the fudgy texture we all want in a chocolate cake. Use this recipe to bake an 8-inch two ...

Blueberry and lemon are one of our favorite summer flavor duos (see our lemon-blueberry breakfast cake and lemon-blueberry ...

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Millionaire’s shortbread is the ultimate show-off bake. Tender shortbread stacked with chewy caramel, glossy chocolate, and flakes of shimmering sea salt? It’s practically begging to be peacocked ...

Place one layer of cake on the board and top with about 1 cup of frosting. Using an offset spatula, evenly frost the top of the cake to the edges. Repeat the process with the remaining cake layers.

I first stumbled upon an old-fashioned blitz torte, a German layer cake traditionally filled with custard and topped with meringue, when researching recipes for my second cookbook, “The Vintage ...

For that, I skipped melted chocolate in favor of cocoa powder. Melted chocolate tends to dry out cake batter, and unless you’re using 100 percent unsweetened chocolate, adding bar chocolate also ...

The texture of the cake is moist and fluffy, thanks to the buttermilk, plus oil, butter, and, in some instances, sour cream. Notes from the Food & Wine Test Kitchen ...