Before you answer, you will need to know what a cake is. Cake is a form of sweet food made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, that is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and that share features with other desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.
The most commonly used cake ingredients include flour, sugar, eggs, butter or oil or margarine, a liquid, and leavening agents, such as baking soda or baking powder. Common additional ingredients and flavorings include dried, candied, or fresh fruit, nuts, cocoa, and extracts such as vanilla, with numerous substitutions for the primary ingredients. Cakes can also be filled with fruit preserves, nuts or dessert sauces (like pastry cream), iced with buttercream or other icings, and decorated with marzipan, piped borders, or candied fruit.
Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. There are countless cake recipes; some are bread-like, some are rich and elaborate, and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified so that even the most amateur of cooks may bake a cake.
- Masanitas Cake
- Amandine Cake
- Angel Cake
- Angel Food Cake
- Apple Cake
- Applesauce Cake
- Aranygaluska
- Avocado Cake
- Babka
- Ballokume
- Banana Bread
- Banana Cake
- Bara Birth
- Basbousa
- Batik Cake
- Battenberg Cake
- Baumkuchen
- Bebinca
- Beer Cake
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- Berlingozzo
- Better Than Sex Cake
- Bibingka
- Beinenstich
- Birthday Cake
- Bizcocho Dominicano
- Black Forest Cake
- Blackout Cake
- Blitztorte
- Blondie
- Bolo de mel
- Madeleine
- Boston Cream Pie
- Brazil Nut Cake
- Brazo de Mercedes
- Broye Poitevin
- Brownie
- Buccellato
- Budapestlangd
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- Bundt Cake
- Butter Cake
- Butterfly Cake
- Butterkuchen
- Carrot Cake
- Cassata
- Cassatella Di Sant’Agata
- Cassava Cake
- Castagnaccio
- Caterpillar Cake
- Charlotte
- Cheesecake
- Chenna Poda
- Chestnut Cake
- Chiffon Cake
- Chocolate Cake
- Chocolate Lime Cake
- Christmas Cake
- Clementine Cake
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- Coconut Cake
- Coffee Cake
- Coffee and Walnut Cake
- Cornbread
- Cozonac
- Crema de Fruta
- Cremeschnitte
- Crystal Cake
- Cuatro Leches Cake
- Cucumber Cake
- Cupcake
- Dacquiose
- Dadar Gulung
- Date Walnut Loaf
- Date Square
- Depression Cake
- Devil’s Food Cake
- Dobos Cake
- Dundee Cake
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- Dutch Carnival Cake
- Eccles Cake
- Eierschecke
- Erotic Cake
- Esterhazy Torte
- Falculelle
- Fat Rascal
- Faworki
- Fig Cake
- Fiancier
- Flourless Chocolate Cake
- Fondant Fancy
- Fragelite
- Frankfurter Kranz
- Frog Cake
- Fruitcake
- Funing Big Cake
- Funnel Cake
- Garash Cake
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- Gateau magique
- Gateau Nantais
- Genoa Cake
- Genoise
- German Chocolate Cake
- Ghevar
- Gingerbread
- Gooey Butter Cake
- Goose Breast
- Halloween Cake
- Hash Brownies
- Hedgehog Slive
- Hevva Cake
- Hot Milk Cake
- Hummingbird Cake
- Icecream Cake
- Jaffa Cakes
- Joffre Cake
- Kabuni
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- Khanom Bodin
- Khanom Farang Kudi CHin
- Kiev Cake
- King Cake
- Kladdkaka
- Klepon
- Klingeris
- Kolacz
- Kolaczki
- Kouign Amann
- Kornigou
- Kransekake
- Krantz Cake
- Kremowka
- Krowka
- Kue Cubit
- Kue Lapis
- Kue Mangkok
- Kutia
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- Lady Baltimore Cake
- Lamington
- Lane Cake
- Layer Cake
- Lemon Cake
- Madeira Cake
- Magdalena
- Makowiec
- Mantecada
- Marble Cake
- Marjolaine
- Mazurek
- Medovik
- Merveilleux
- Mille-feuille
- Miserable Cake
- Molten Chocolate Cake
- Moon Cake
- Moravian Sugar Cake
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- Muffin
- Napeleonskake
- Napelonshat
- Nonnette
- Onion Cake
- Opera Cake
- Oponki
- Orange and Polenta Cake
- Ostkaka
- Othellolagkage
- Pain D’epcies
- Pain de Genes
- Pain di Spagna
- Pan Cake
- Pandan Cake
- Panettone
- Panpepato
- Paris-Brest
- Parkin
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- Paroozzo
- Pavlova
- Petit Gateau
- Petits Fours
- Piernik
- Pineapple Cheesecake
- Plum Cake
- Poffertjes
- Pound Cake
- Princess Cake
- Prinzregententorte
- Pumpkin Bread
- Punschkrapfen
- Puto
- Putu
- Queen Cake
- Queen Elizabeth Cake
- Rainy Fruit Cake
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- Raisin Cake
- Red Bean Cake
- Red Velvet Cake
- Rock Cake
- Rum Baba
- Rum Cake
- Ruske Kape
- Sachertorte
- Sakotis
- Saizburger Nockerl
- Sans Rival
- Santiago Cake
- Sekacz
- Serabi
- Sernik
- Sesame Seed Cake
- Sfouf
- Sheet Cake
- Simnel Cake
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- Smith Island Cake
- Smorgastarta
- Snow Skin Mooncake
- Snowball Cake
- Souffle
- Spekkoek
- Spice Cake
- Spiku
- Spit Cake
- Sponge Cake
- St. Honore Cake
- Stack Cake
- Strawberry Cake
- Streuselkuchen
- Suncake
- Swiss Roll
- Tarte Tatin
- Tea Loaf
- Teacake
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- Three Chocolates Cakes
- Tiramisu
- Tocino De Cielo
- Tompouce
- Torta Caprese
- Torta Alla Monferrina
- Torta Setteveli
- Torta Tre Monti
- Traestammer
- Tres Leches Cake
- Tunis Cake
- Ube Cake
- Ul Boov
- Upside-down Cake
- Victoria Sponge Cake
- Vinarterta
- Wedding Cake
- Welsh Cake
- Wingko
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- Whoopie Pies
- Wine Cake
- Yule Log
- Zuger Kirschtorte
- Zuppa Inglese
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