Recipe Index: Cake

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Eggnog Pound Cake
Here's a perfect cake for the holidays, an eggnog pound cake. This recipe is a favorite of my friend Evie, a professional pastry chef, who passed it on to us. If you like eggnog and pound cake, you'll love this...
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
When I first encountered Clotilde Dusoulier's fabulous Chocolate and Zucchini website, I thought to myself, "How wonderful, the ingredients of my favorite cake!" My grandmother taught me how to bake when I was very young, and later when I was...
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
This pineapple upside-down cake is one of my father's favorite recipes (he'll look for almost any excuse to make it). The cake is wonderfully dense, with a slight almond flavor and with sweetness from caramel and pineapple. Dad has recently...
Triple-Layer White Cake with Orange Curd Filling
My father has always been the baker in the family. (Mom claims she baked plenty of cakes for us growing up, but since it has been more than 20 years since we all left home, none of us remember and...
Persimmon Pudding Cake
Hachiya persimmons can bake up into a delicious, moist cake that is almost a pudding. This recipe takes only a half cup of added sugar and uses the sweetness of the persimmon pulp.
Peach Blueberry Cake
I found this peach blueberry cake recipe on epicurious and couldn't resist trying it. The crust is almost biscuit-like and has a rich buttery flavor. Although the original recipe calls for the cake to be cooked for 1 3/4 hours...
Applesauce Spice Cake
July marks the beginning oJf the apple season here. The brightly striped Gravensteins are the first to ripen. And when they do, we spend weeks making homemade applesauce and apple butter. As our freezer is now packed with applesauce, and...
Strawberry Cream Cake
My father has been looking for an excuse to make this cake since he first saw it in Cook's Illustrated (May/June 2006). With dual imperatives of Mother's Day being two weeks away and my brother John's birthday (never mind that...
Bittersweet Chocolate Cake
There is one day a year in which I will happily indulge in a piece of chocolate cake, and that is Valentine's Day, which also happens to be my birthday. This is the cake I made for this year's birthday...
Apple Coffee Cake
Almost every Sunday morning growing up, my father would make a huge apple coffee cake for us after church. Recently I pulled this recipe from the Boston Globe; they had it listed as an apple cake for the Jewish high...
Blueberry Buckle
Hanging out with my dad is like living in a test kitchen. Dad's baking experiments are the bane of anyone's low carb diet. One must have formidable willpower to resist his creations, and fortunately for my taste buds, I don't...
Suzanne's Chocolate Cake
My friend Suzanne served in the Peace Corps for two years in Kenya in the late Eighties. The Peace Corps at that time published a recipe book for their volunteers that provided a chocolate cake recipe that was special in...
Mrs. Adams' Delicious Pound Cake
My mother has been praising our neighbor Mrs. Adams' pound cake for many years. My mother is a self-described cake person ("There are cake people and there are pie people. I'm a cake person.") who gets dreamy eyed just thinking...
Orange Cornmeal Cake
When we first came across this recipe in Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine we had to try it out. We've made it several times now, and everytime with great results. It's sort of a cross between a coffee cake and...
Carrot Cake
We love the carrot cake recipe from the Silver Palate cookbook. However, each bite is enough to send a normal person into sugar shock. So here is our recipe with the sugar level much reduced.