47 Delicious Homemade Cakes

Filled with rich fruit preserves and topped with black-raspberry-flavored buttercream, this cake is a raspberry lover's dream.

Recipe: Chambord Layer Cake

A slice of our cake needs no more accompaniment than a glass of cold milk. Nothing mixes up faster than this Easy Chocolate Party Cake, also known as "dump" cake (dump all ingredients into one bowl, mix, and bake — candles and a chorus of "Happy Birthday" optional).

Recipes: Easy Chocolate Party Cake, Fudgy Cream-Cheese Frosting

Luscious lemon cake is a zesty alternative to classic vanilla. Lemon's versatility gives you plenty of options for filling — lemon curd, raspberry jam, or buttercream frosting.

Recipe: Lemon Cake

This moist single-layer vanilla cake has a delicate texture and delectable crumb, but it's the old-fashioned browned-butter glaze that gives it a nutty flavor. It's also delightfully versatile.

Recipe: Basic Vanilla Cake

For a quicker and almost-homemade strawberry cake, let white cake mix stand in for a cake made from scratch. Reduce the liquid called for in the mix by 1/3 cup and add 1 cup strawberry preserves and 1/8 teaspoon red food coloring. Bake the two 9-inch layers according to package instructions. Shorten the process (and cleanup) even more by using store-bought whipped cream. Top with strawberries and 1/4 cup preserves.

This decadent carrot cake is coated with a sweet buttermilk glaze before being topped with traditional cream cheese frosting.

Recipe: Nanny's Full o' Love Glazed Carrot Cake

Each layer of this incredible cake is topped with sinfully sweet pecans, sugar, and fudge.

Recipe: Praline Turtle Cake

Vanilla Icing coats Red Velvet Cake, a four-layer temptation.

Recipes:
Red Velvet Cake
Cooked Vanilla Icing

Celebrate spring's arrival with fresh strawberries and billows of cream on this moist cake.

Recipe: Fresh Strawberry Cake

For an alternative that's less sweet and a time-saver, too, omit the icing and serve the cake warm with a pat of butter. Or top with powdered sugar or ready-made fudge sauce.

Recipes: Banana-Caramel Cake, Caramel Icing

Filled with cassis-spiked blackberry jam and coated with lemon buttercream, our Lemon-Blackberry Cake will be a treat you'll want to share with the whole family: There will be enough slices to go around.

Recipes: Lemon-Blackberry Cake, Blackberry-Cassis Jam, Lemon Buttercream

Delicately sweet, with a texture that makes everyone smile, breakfast cakes such as these can be created in little time with absolutely no special equipment.

Recipe: Crunchy Coffee Cake

Layers of rum syrup are hidden within this toasted coconut confection.

Recipe: Coconut Cake

The moist and spicy layers of this cake need nothing more than a cool complement of cinnamon-flavored whipped cream to sandwich them together.

Recipes: Stacked Applesauce Cake, Cinnamon Whipped Cream

Mini lemon cakes with fresh berries are a light and sweet summer indulgence.

Recipe: Lemon Cakes with Berry Salsa

In this variation on our Basic Chocolate Cake, warm caramel sauce spooned into a ramekin's base results in a cake with an irresistibly gooey surprise.

Recipe: Warm Chocolate and Caramel Cakes

Made with cocoa and dark brown sugar and topped with a chocolate-almond glaze, this velvety cake is perfect for any occasion.

Recipe: Chocolate Tea Cake

Two fluffy layers of meringue surround creamy pineapple filling.

Recipe: Pineapple Meringue Cake

Boston cream pie (really a cake) probably got its misnomer when Early American cooks, for lack of cake pans, baked it in pie tins. Filled with vanilla pudding and topped with a chocolate glaze, this dessert is delicious, whatever it's called!

Recipes: Boston Cream Pie, Chocolate Glaze