This simple chocolate cake is a favorite of Lucinda Scala Quinn's oldest son, Calder. Topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries, it makes for an easy and delicious dessert.
Author: Martha Stewart
Use this recipe to make our French Almond Macarons.
Author: Martha Stewart
Leveling the tops of the cakes helps them to stack neatly and makes a smooth surface for frosting. For easier trimming, refrigerate the cooled cake layers for about an hour before slicing off the tops...
Author: Martha Stewart
Playful, surprising, and utterly irresistible -- upside-down sweets never fail to wow family and friends.
Author: Martha Stewart
This combination of chevre, mascarpone, and cream cheese is baked to perfection. Every bite is as rich as you'd expect, though surprisingly light and airy.
Author: Martha Stewart
Scented geraniums lend their perfume and subtle flavor to this rich dessert.
Author: Martha Stewart
Semolina is a coarse-ground flour made from durum wheat. Look for it in the baking section of your supermarket or health-food store.
Author: Martha Stewart
Sandwich chocolate meringue discs between milk chocolate ganache and coffee buttercream and frost with more buttercream and crushed hazelnuts for this over-the-top dessert.
Author: Martha Stewart
This rendition of a Southern specialty gets its deep-red hue from food coloring and comes from Martha Stewart -- not our Martha but her namesake, a home cook from Montclair, New Jersey.
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Take your pumpkin spice cake to the next level with this pretty, party-worthy presentation.
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Make this chocolate genoise for our Chocolate Mousse Cake.
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Viva Italia! This grape-studded cake, which is traditionally made to celebrate the beginning of the fruit harvest, is a sweet yet understated way to finish the meal.
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This traditional British holiday dessert from food writer Jane Hornby's "What to Cook and How to Cook It" is a cross between sticky toffee and Christmas pudding, but with a lighter feel. Dates add moisture...
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This summertime strawberry dessert is sweet, simple, and sure to please. Handle the shortcake dough as little as possible for light, fluffy biscuits every time.
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In this elegant buche de noel, sponge cake is brushed with espresso syrup, filled with caramel, and swathed in seven-minute frosting. For the finishing touch, the snowy white exterior is bruleed with a...
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A purée of bourbon and plump Medjool dates suffuses this divinely intense dessert; it gets swirled into both the batter and the caramel glaze. This recipe comes from Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection:...
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A warm Marsala-spiked walnut cake is spread with apricot jam, rolled, and dusted with confectioners' sugar.
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Use this homemade vanilla buttercream frosting recipe to decorate our Basic Yellow Cake or Basic Chocolate Cake.
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Honey lovers, this cake's for you! The batter and double glazes get their sweetness from the golden liquid produced by hard-working bees. Savory sage and citrusy lemon zest offer balance to this crowd-pleasing...
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A plain-Jane orange chiffon cake gets dolled up with aromatic orange juice and zest in the batter.
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Carrot cake, naturally, is the foundation for our cotton-candy-tailed Easter bunny cake. Miniature marshmallows make fur that is inexpensive, easy to apply, and fun to eat, while gold licorice whiskers...
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What's better than digging into a slice of cheesecake? That's easy -- eating the whole thing! Give each guest a tiny version of the classic creamy, graham cracker-crusted treat. These cakes manage to trump...
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Gina DePalma shares her recipe for panforte, a delicious Italian pasty.
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This cake is a variation on the classic New Orleans dessert Bananas Foster. Prepare the banana topping right before serving.
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Thanks to the coconut flavor, this cake will whisk you away to a warmer, tropical climate.
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Use this recipe to make Mint Chocolate-Chip Cake and Swirly Cupcakes.
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Take a dive into this quick, easy, and delicious rhubarb treat that'll keep you and your friends coming back for a second helping. Serve with vanilla ice cream.
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Is an upside-down cake upside down when it's baking or when it's served? In this lightly spiced version, the base-later, the top-combines ripe black plums and red raspberries. Inverted onto a serving dish...
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Use this recipe to make our Blackberry Buttermilk Cake.
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Crunchy roasted cocoa nibs give this cake an unforgettable texture; pepper-flecked icing adds a slightly punchy finish. The recipe comes from chef Kierin Baldwin of New York's The Dutch restaurant.
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Grated carrot is the secret to the moist crumb and mellow sweetness of this loaf cake topped with thick swirls of tangy cream-cheese frosting.
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Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, adapted from Essential Emeril: Favorite Recipes and Hard-Won Wisdom From My Life in the Kitchen, Oxmoor House, 2015, courtesy Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
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Use this recipe to make Zuccotto. The cake baked in the sheet pan will be used to form the domed sides. The cake in the round pan will become the bottom.
Author: Martha Stewart
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Walnuts add a nutty dimension to this rich, decadent dessert. This maple-walnut cake with brown sugar frosting is perfect for any fall occasion.
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We love this combination of dark-hued fruits, but you can swap in other berries, such as raspberries, or stone fruit, such as nectarines or peaches.
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Proof positive that you don't need frosting to create a spectacular cake! Here, Martha adorns this eight-layer showstopper with fresh berries, edible flowers, and powdered sugar.
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The key to this recipe's moist crumb? You guessed it: yogurt. Emblazoned with thick pieces of rhubarb--in peak season in early spring--it's a next-level spring dessert. Temper the vegetable's sour notes...
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One layer of this banana cake and another layer of Coconut Cake surrounded by cream cheese frosting and colored coconut flakes comprise the very special Alexis' Heart Cake.
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Jolts of cocoa and espresso flavor every layer: the filling, the frosting, the truffles are all infused with mocha.
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Seeking a Halloween party dessert? Look no further than this moist buttermilk-chocolate cake frosted with vanilla buttercream. Revelers will rave about the decadent cake topper, which is inspired by Edgar...
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Blood oranges have the most complex flavor of all the orange varieties.
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Maple syrup not only flavors this luscious cheesecake, but it also is brushed on thinly sliced pears that are broiled to create a very unique decoration atop this festive dessert.
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At a traditional German Christmas table, stollen is likely to appear as a beloved part of breakfast or as a conclusion to the holiday meal. A stollen begins as a sweet, rich yeast dough, which is then...
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This intensely rich, silken frosting works well on spice, carrot, or pound cakes. Try it on our Caramelized-Apple Spice Cake.
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