30 incredible cakes to bake immediately

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30 incredible cakes to bake immediately

Peanut butter frosting, maple glaze, buttercream roses and cream cheese frosting: we count down 30 of our favourite cake recipes from classic sponges to gooey chocolate cakes and mildly insane creations.

Whether it’s for a celebration, an amicable afternoon tea or even a midnight snack, cake is a wondrous thing indeed. From featherlight and spongy to dense and fudgy, our list of over 30 confectionary creations covers all possible bases for utter deliciousness.

CLASSICS CAKES

Carrot cake with cream cheese and lemon icing
Hot milk sponge cake with vanilla buttercream
Pound cake
Red velvet cake

Carrot cake with cream cheese-and-lemon icing
Carrot cake with cream cheese-and-lemon icing

TOP CHOC CAKES

Dense beetroot and chocolate cake
Dense smoked chocolate and vanilla fudge cake encrusted with pink peppercorns
Dense sweet potato, orange and dark chocolate cake
White and dark chocolate truffle cake

White and dark chocolate truffle cake
White and dark chocolate truffle cake

TUTTI FRUITY CAKES

Apple and olive oil layer cake with maple icing
Banana and blueberry cake
Pumpkin cake with prunes in dessert wine syrup and candied pumpkin
Sweet potato and date cake with cream cheese topping

Banana and blueberry cake
Banana and blueberry cake

NICE AND NUTTY CAKES

Gluten-free chocolate and hazelnut cake with peanut butter icing
Hazelnut, cinnamon and coconut cake
Peanut butter loaf
Pistachio and orange cake

Hazelnut, cinnamon and coconut cake
Hazelnut, cinnamon and coconut cake

LOAF CAKES

Banana bread with cinnamon sugared pecans
Beat in one granadilla cake
Cherry coconut and almond loaf cake
Dense date cake with thick peanut butter frosting

Cherry, coconut and almond loaf cake
Cherry, coconut and almond loaf cake

READERS’ WINNERS CAKES

Angel’s delight cake
Chocolate cake with caramel icing and fudge sauce
Cinnamon crumb cake with maple glaze
Coffee and date cake
White chocolate cardamom and orange layered cake with white chocolate ganache

Cinnamon crumb cake with maple glaze
Cinnamon crumb cake with maple glaze

TASTE 10TH BIRTHDAY CAKES

Dense white chocolate cake with buttercream roses
Easy Belgian chocolate ice-cream cake with honeycomb shards
Milk stout-and-chocolate cake with butterscotch sauce, caramel chocolate shards and dark chocolate icing
Nutty Wheat, sweet potato, orange and dark chocolate bundt cake with milk chocolate ganache and white chocolate shavings

Milk stout-and-chocolate cake with butterscotch sauce, caramel chocolate shards and dark chocolate icing.
Milk stout-and-chocolate cake with butterscotch sauce, caramel chocolate shards and dark chocolate icing.

CHRISTMAS CAKES

Christmas panettone layer cake
Fruit cake
Legendary Christmas fruitcake
Turkish fig and brandy-chocolate Christmas cake with Morello cherry ganache and Swiss meringue frosting

Fruit cake
Fruit cake

 

TASTE Article by: TASTE

The TASTE team is a happy bunch of keen cooks and writers, always on the look out for the next food trend or the next piece of cake.

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