Thick Italian meringue is sandwiched between moist layers of cake, which is topped off with sweetened shredded coconut in this recipe from chef Thomas Keller. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/thomas-kellers-coconut-cake/”>Thomas Keller’s Coconut Cake</a> (Matt Taylor-Gross/)
At New York’s Milk Bar, Christina Tosi makes this towering cake every spring, when sweet and tiny tristar strawberries are in season. This is by no means an everyday cake, but it’s worth the work that you’ll put in, and worthy of a special occasion. Get the recipe for <a href=”http://www.saveur.com/strawberry-lemon-layer-cake-recipe”>Strawberry Lemon Cake</a> (Matt Taylor-Gross/)
This impressive layer cake consists of 10 thin cake layers sandwiches with an old-fashioned chocolate fudge icing. Get the recipe for <a href=”http://www.saveur.com/smith-island-cake-recipe”>Classic Smith Island Cake</a> (Ryan Liebe | Food Styling Mariana Velasquez/)
Hummingbird cake is a luscious, fruit-and-nut-studded layer cake served in Atlanta’s Watershed restaurant. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/hummingbird-cake/”>Hummingbird Cake</a> (Matt Taylor-Gross/)
This classic, German, cherry-filled chocolate cake, a masterpiece of cherry brandy-soaked pastry engineering, improves the longer it sits. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/black-forest-cake/”>Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte)</a> (Todd Coleman/)
Three velvety layers sandwiched with thick dark chocolate icing make a decadent, crowd-pleasing dessert. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Very-Moist-Chocolate-Layer-Cake/”>Very Moist Chocolate Layer Cake</a> (Todd Coleman/)
This buttery cake slathered with rich caramel icing has earned local fame on Chicago’s South Side—it’s one of our favorites to make for special occasions. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Roses-Famous-Caramel-Cake/”>Rose’s Famous Caramel Cake</a> (James Oseland/)
This rich, multilayered dessert of angel food and devil’s food cake, peanut butter mousse, and milk chocolate ganache should be frozen before icing is added and refrigerated before it’s sliced. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Heaven-and-Hell-Cake/”>Heaven and Hell Cake</a> (Matt Taylor-Gross/)
Packed with coconut and pecans and covered in cream cheese frosting, this cake is a specialty of Georgia home cook Cile Ellis. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/pecan-cream-cake/”>Pecan Cream Cake</a> (Landon Nordeman/)
A classic white cake recipe with a foolproof frosting. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/best-white-layer-cake-recipe/”>White Mountain Layer Cake with Marshmallow Buttercream</a> (Matt Taylor-Gross/)
A traditional Southern confection, this regal dessert gained popularity through writer Owen Wister’s 1906 romance novel, Lady Baltimore. Three dreamy white layers of cake are infused with rose water and slathered with an Italian meringue frosting studded with pecans, raisins, dried figs, and candied orange peel. Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Lady-Baltimore-Cake-/”>Lady Baltimore Cake</a> (André Baranowski/)
This recipe is based on one in Emma Rylander Lane’s <em>Some Good Things to Eat</em> (self-published, 1898). Get the recipe for <a href=”https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Lane-Cake-Recipe/”>Lane Cake</a> (Todd Coleman/)
