The first time I made brown butter cake, I poured the butter straight from the pan into the mixer while it was still warm and liquid. The cake came out dense, greasy, and barely rose at all. This homemade brown butter cake fixes that exact mistake, a moist, tender cake with deep nutty, caramel flavor…
The first time I made peach cake, I sliced into it expecting a beautiful cross-section of fruit throughout, and instead found every single piece of peach sitting in a soggy layer at the bottom. The top two-thirds of the cake was peach cake in name only. This homemade peach cake fixes that exact problem, a…
The first time I made ube cake, I left it in the oven five minutes too long because I got distracted answering the door. When I finally pulled it out, the crumb had gone from a bright violet to a dull, brownish gray. That one mistake taught me more about ube cake than any recipe…
The first time I made this cake for a birthday, I grabbed the wrong sprinkles without thinking twice. By the time the batter hit the pans, it had turned a dull, streaky gray. This homemade funfetti cake recipe is the fix for that exact mistake, a soft, moist vanilla layer cake loaded with sprinkles and…
If you have never made tres leches cake before, you are about to understand why 700 million people across Latin America consider it one of the great desserts of the world. The premise sounds strange at first. You bake a light sponge cake, poke hundreds of holes in it while it is still warm, then…
Bold claim: this is the moistest chocolate cake you will ever make without butter. That is not a small thing to say. Butter-based chocolate cakes have a loyal following for good reason: they taste rich, they have structure, and generations of home bakers have grown up making them. But butter has one weakness that olive…
There is a reason this cake has been on American tables since the 1920s and shows no signs of leaving. It is visually dramatic for something that requires almost no decorating skill. The presentation does itself: caramelized pineapple rings, glossy brown sugar topping, and maraschino cherries in every center, all revealed the moment you flip…
Nobody knows exactly why it is called hummingbird cake. The most popular theory is that the cake is sweet enough to attract hummingbirds. Another suggests the name comes from Jamaica, where the national bird is the doctor bird hummingbird (Trochilus polytmus), and where banana and pineapple are both native ingredients. The most likely explanation is…
Every baker has that one bunch of bananas they forget on the counter. They start yellow. They spot. They turn soft and dark and slightly embarrassing. And then, almost every time, they become banana bread. Not anymore. This easy banana cake does everything banana bread does, and then a few things banana bread simply cannot….
Matcha cake is one of those recipes that either works beautifully or disappoints completely, and the difference almost always comes down to one thing: the quality of the matcha powder you put in the batter. This recipe gets that right from the start. It uses a combination of butter and oil for a crumb that…