Cake Recipes and Decorating Ideas

This is a brilliant tried and tested recipe for using a glut of courgettes and carrots. It makes for a delicious teatime treat that incorporates spices, mixed fruit and chopped walnuts. Eat now or freeze for later. Rest assured the courgettes are undetectable in this lovely loaf of goodness.

Learn how to make a fabulous two-layer chocolate cake with dulce de leche filling. I've included step-by-step instructions with my own photos and video to help you along.

Tomato soup cake was poet Sylvia Plath's favorite to bake. For her, baking was therapeutic. I made it for a literary-themed English Department meeting. Included here are the recipe itself, my review, and a history of Plath's life.

These easy recipes require just one box of cake mix and one mix-in. That's it: just two ingredients that you probably have on hand. In this article, you'll find 20 enticing combinations with instructions and photos.

Enjoy this delicious peanut butter pound cake with or without frosting. Recipes and step-by-step instructions with photos are included.

This simple and easy no-bake cheesecake calls for just four ingredients and is ready to eat in about four hours.

This recipe is inspired by memories of cooking with my mother. In my hometown, honeycomb cake was often served at teatime with a cup of coffee or tea. Let me show you how to make it.

Check out these extremely nerdy wedding cakes! It doesn't get any better than this!

What's the difference between sponge, genoise and chiffon Cake? Tips for making light airy cakes and a recipe for Powder Puffs, an Australian classic also known as Sponge Kisses.

Delightfully rich and gorgeously chocolatey, this recipe is one which calls out to be devoured and its lusciously seductive flavors enjoyed to the fullest.

This is a deliciously light and fluffy souffle-like cheesecake with delicate hints of orange.

Add just a few ingredients to a plain boxed cake mix to quickly and easily whip up the homemade flavor of an old-fashioned spice cake.

Petit fours are tiny, iced layer cakes. Often served as part of an assorted pastry tray, these elegant treats are usually made with layers of génoise cake, jam, and French buttercream frosting. This simplified recipe features shortcuts that let you focus on the fun part—decorating.

Of all my mom's desserts, this banana cake is my favorite. In this article, I'll show you how to make it!

Yorkshire parkin is a gingery oat cake made with sticky treacle that is traditionally eaten around a bonfire with friends and family on the night of Guy Falks (November 5th).

These 20 upside-down cake recipes aren't like your grandmother's pineapple one. These use all sorts of fruits, adding a new twist to an old favorite. Photos and step-by-step instructions provided.