List of cakes

The following is a list of types of dessert cakes by country of origin and distinctive ingredients. The majority of cakes contain some kind of flour, egg, and sugar, and these ingredients are not listed.

Cakes

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Name	Picture	Origin	Distinctive ingredients and description
Angel cake		United Kingdom	Sponge cake, cream
Angel food cake		United States	Egg whites, vanilla, and cream of tartar
Apple cake		Unknown	Apple, caramel icing
Applesauce cake		Early colonial times in the New England Colonies of the northeastern United States[1]	Prepared using apple sauce, flour and sugar as primary ingredients
Aranygaluska		Hungary Romania	A cake with yeasty dough and vanilla custard
Avocado cake			Prepared using avocado as a primary ingredient
Babka		Poland	Easter cake with icing
Ballokume		Albania	Corn flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla
Banana cake			Prepared using banana as a primary ingredient
Basbousa		Somalia	A traditional Somali sweet cake that is made of cooked semolina or farina soaked in simple syrup. Coconut is a popular addition. The syrup may also optionally contain orange flower water or rose water.
Beer cake			Cake prepared with beer as a main ingredient. Pictured is a chocolate bundt cake infused with stout beer.
Better than sex cake		United States	Chocolate or yellow cake, sugar mixture, various fillings
Boston cream pie		United States	Egg custard, chocolate
Banana cake/bread		United States	Banana, sometimes nuts and chocolate
Banoffee pie		United Kingdom	Bananas, toffee, biscuits
Bara brith		United Kingdom (Wales)	Raisins, currants and candied peel
Battenberg cake		United Kingdom	Marzipan and apricot jam
Baumkuchen		Germany	A kind of layered cake and a traditional dessert that is in many countries throughout Europe and it is also a popular snack and dessert in Japan. The characteristic rings that appear when sliced resemble tree rings, and give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree cake".
Bibingka		Philippines	Coconut milk and rice flour
Bienenstich (Bee Sting)		Germany	Almonds, honey, custard cream
Birthday cake		Unknown	A cake that has various ingredients, usually chocolate or sponge, and is often topped with icing and candles; number of candles on top of the cake is often said to represent some one's age, for example, a birthday cake for a nine-year-old will have nine candles on top of it.
Bizcocho Dominicano		Dominican Republic	A cake with a moist and airy texture and meringue frosting
Black Forest cake, often known as "Black Forest gâteau"		Germany	Cherries, kirsch, and chocolate
Blitztorte, a "lightning cake"		Germany	Lemon zest and lemon juice add flavor to a blitztorte, which is a butter cake (butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and baking powder). It is called a blitztorte because it is quick to make.
Blondie		United States	A rich, sweet dessert bar. It is made from flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, and vanilla, and may also contain walnuts or pecans. It may contain white or dark chocolate chips and it can have a taste reminiscent of butterscotch.
Bolo de mel		Madeira Islands	Sweet, heavy cake made with molasses or honey, often with walnuts and almonds. Literally means "honey cake".
Brazil nut cake			Prepared using Brazil nuts as a primary ingredient, they are common in the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
Brownie		United States, Canada	A flat, baked square or bar developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized in both the US and Canada during the first half of the 20th century.
Buccellato		Sicily	Honey, marsala, aniseed, and raisins
Budapestlängd		Sweden	Rolled meringue-hazelnut cake filled with whipped cream and pieces of canned peach, apricot, or mandarin orange.
Bundt cake		United States	A cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive ring shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe, but they are often made with chocolate.
Butter cake		United Kingdom	Butter
Butterfly cake		United Kingdom	A variant of cupcake, also called "fairy cake" for its fairy-like "wings". They can be made from any flavor of cake. The top of the fairy cake is cut off or carved out with a spoon, and cut in half. Then, butter cream, whipped cream, or other sweet filling like jam is spread into the hole. Finally, the two cut halves are stuck into the butter cream to look like butterfly wings. The wings of the cake are often decorated using icing to form various patterns.
Cassata		Italy (Sicily)	Cassata consists of round sponge cake moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling similar to cannoli cream. It is covered with a shell of marzipan, pink and green pastel colored icing, and decorative designs. The cassata is topped with candied fruit depicting cherries and slices of citrus fruit characteristic of Sicily.
Carrot cake		United Kingdom	Moist, dense, sweet cake made with carrots
Cheesecake		Greece	Thin base made from crushed biscuits, with a thicker top layer of soft cheese, eggs and sugar. It can be baked or unbaked (in which case it is refrigerated.)
Chestnut cake			Prepared using chestnuts or water chestnuts as a main ingredient. It is a dish in Chinese cuisine.[2]
Chiffon cake		United States	Light, airy cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour
Chocolate cake		Unknown	Chocolate
Christmas cake		United Kingdom	Dried fruit such as sultanas or raisins; cinnamon, treacle, cherries, and almond; is quite often topped with icing. If topped with icing, the icing may be decorated with decorations, such as models of Santa Claus, or may have labels such as "Happy Christmas".
Cinco leches cake		Mexico	A cake made with five milks.
Clementine cake			A cake prepared with clementine as a primary ingredient
Coconut cake		United States	A popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States. It is a cake frosted with a white frosting and covered in coconut flakes.
Coffee cake		Germany	Cinnamon
Cremeschnitte		Slovenia Croatia Germany	A vanilla and custard cream cake dessert popular in several central-European countries. There are many regional variations, but they all include puff pastry base and custard cream.
Croquembouche		France	Caramel, almond, and chocolate
Crystal cake		China	One of the traditional desserts in China, it has more than 800 years of history. It was first invented in Xiagui during the Song Dynasty, then it spread far and wide. It was called "crystal cake" because its filling shines brightly, and its appearance is glittering and translucent, like a crystal.
Cuatro leches cake		Spain Mexico	Cake made with four milks and it is similar to the tres leches cake.
Cucumber cake			A cake prepared with cucumber as a primary ingredient. It is a dish in Goan cuisine.
Cupcake		Unknown	A small cake with various ingredients, usually topped with icing
Dacquoise		France	Almonds, hazelnut, and chocolate
Date and walnut loaf		United Kingdom	Dates, walnuts, treacle, and tea
Date square		Canada (probably)	Also known as "matrimonial cake", a layer of minced dates with oat crumble
Depression cake		United States	Made without milk, sugar, butter, or eggs
Devil's food cake		United States	Chocolate and/or cocoa, and baking soda
Dobos cake		Hungary	A sponge cake that is layered with chocolate butter cream and topped with thin caramel slices
Dundee cake		United Kingdom (Scotland)	Fruit cake with almonds on it but without glacé cherries
Eccles cake		United Kingdom	Zante currants
Esterházy torte		Hungary Austria	A Hungarian cake (torta) named after Prince Paul III Anton Esterházy de Galántha (1786–1866). It was invented by Budapest confectioners in the late 19th century. It consists of cognac or vanilla buttercream, sandwiched between layers of almond meringue (macaroon) dough. The torte is iced with a fondant glaze and decorated with a characteristic chocolate striped pattern.
Fat rascal		United Kingdom	Dried fruit, peel, oats
Faworki		Poland	Sweet crisp cake in shape of a bow
Fig cake			Prepared with fig as a primary ingredient
Financier		France	A small cake, the financier is light and moist, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. The distinctive feature of the recipe is beurre noisette (brown butter). Other ingredients include egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. They are baked in shaped molds, usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. In terms of texture, it is springy with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior.
Flourless chocolate cake		Unknown	Chocolate
Fondant Fancy		United Kingdom	Icing (in any of a number of colors), cream
Fragelité		Denmark	Meringue, almonds, butter, coffee
Frog cake		Australia	Cream, icing
Fruitcake		Ancient Rome	Candied fruit; many versions of the fruit cake contain currants, sultanas, and glacé cherries
Fountain cake		India	Cream, ice cream cake
Funing big cake		China (Funing County, Jiangsu province)	Sticky rice, white sugar, and refined lard. Due to health concerns associated with lard consumption, sometimes vegetable oil is used instead of lard.[3]
Genoa cake		Italy (Genoa, probably)	Sultanas, raisins, glacé cherries
Genoise (Genoese cake)		Italy (Genoa, probably)	Whole egg
Gingerbread		United Kingdom (probably)	Ginger
Gooey butter cake		United States	Butter
Goose Breast		Denmark	A cream cake known as Gåsebryst in Denmark. A Danish pastry bottom, topped with whipped cream, custard and jam, wrapped in marzipan.
Halloween cake			A cake prepared with Halloween-themed decorations
Hash brownies		Netherlands Belgium	Also known as "space cakes", these are bakery products made using one of the forms of cannabis, including hashish.
Hot milk cake		United States (probably)	Milk, and mocha
Ice cream cake		Unknown	Ice cream
Jaffa Cakes		United Kingdom	A biscuit-sized cake introduced by MacVitie and Price in 1927, and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common forms of Jaffa Cakes are circular, 2.5 inches (64 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavored jelly, and a coating of chocolate.
Kabuni		Albania	Rice, butter, mutton broth, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, cloves
Karpatka		Poland	Two to eight layers of very flattened sweet bake pastry with cream and sweet cheese, normally served with fruit and budyn and cardamom and ice cream which may have alcohol also on the side of this luxurious dessert
Kiev cake		Ukraine	Two airy layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling
King cake		France Spain	Sugar, cinnamon, milk, and butter
Kladdkaka		Sweden	Chocolate
Kliņģeris		Latvia	Yeast, raisins, spices
Kolacz		Poland	Sweet cheese and cream
Kolaczki		Poland	Butter, sugar, jam, egg whites, different sweet sugar powder
Kouign-amann		France (Brittany)	Butter
Kutia		Poland Belarus Ukraine Lithuania Russia	Various nuts and raisins
Kransekake		Denmark Norway	Almonds, sugar, egg whites
Kremówka		Germany, Slovakia	A Polish type of cream pie. It is made of two layers of puff pastry, filled with whipped cream, creamy buttercream, vanilla pastry cream (custard cream) or sometimes egg white cream, and is usually sprinkled with powdered sugar. It also can be decorated with cream or covered with a layer of icing.
Krowka		Poland	Chocolate, sponge base, caramel and coconut
Lady Baltimore cake		Southern United States (its exact origins are disputed)	Dried fruit, nuts, frosting
Lamanki or Klamäti		Poland	Chocolate, cinnamon
Lamington		Australia	Chocolate icing, and desiccated coconut
Layer cake		Unknown	Egg yolk, sugar, butter, flour
Lemon cake		Unknown	Lemon
Madeira cake		United Kingdom	Butter and sugar, usually flavored with lemon. Sometimes confused with Bolo de mel cakes, which are actually made in Madeira using a completely different recipe.
Makowiec		Poland	Poppy seed cake, normally decorated with icing and orange
Magdalena		Spain	Eggs, granulated sugar, unsalted butter, unbleached white flour, lemon zest, baking powder and milk
Mantecada		Spain	Eggs, flour, sugar and butter (cow fat in the Mantecadas de Astorga; corn flour in Colombia)
Marble cake		Denmark	Vanilla, coffee, and/or chocolate
Mazurek		Poland	Easter cake with a type of shortcrust tart and topping
Merveilleux		Belgium	Two light meringues welded and covered with whipped cream and dusted with chocolate shavings.
Mille-feuille		France	Also known as a Napoleon, is three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of pastry cream. The top is glazed in white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and combed into a distinctive pattern.
Misérable cake		Belgium	A type of almond sponge cake that is a traditional Belgian recipe
Molten chocolate cake		France/United States	Also known as lava cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a flourless chocolate cake (sometimes called a "chocolate decadence" cake) and a soufflé. Some other names used are "chocolate fondant", "chocolate moelleux", and "chocolate lava" cake.
Mooncake		China	A Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiujie)
Muffin		Unknown	An individual-sized quick bread product which can be sweet or savory. The typical American "muffin" is similar to a cupcake in size and cooking methods. These can come in both savory varieties, such as corn or cheese muffins, or sweet varieties such as blueberry or banana. It also refers to a flatter disk-shaped bread of English origin, commonly referred to as an "English muffin" outside the United Kingdom. These muffins are also popular in Commonwealth countries and the United States.
Napoleonshat		Denmark	A marzipan based cake, shaped like a Napoleon's Hat and dipped in dark chocolate
Napeleonskake		Norway Denmark Iceland	A cake that is similar to tompouce, but it has different flavors like caramel or carob
Nasturtium cake		Spain	A cake made primarily with egg yolk and syrup, prepared in a water bath. The cake is usually presented in a cylindrical shape or a rectangle, depending on the mold. It can often be served at room temperature.
Onion cake			A savory or sweet cake prepared with onion as a primary ingredient
Oponki or Paczki		Poland	Round spongy yeast cake with sweet topping and other chocolate
Opera cake		France	Ganache, sponge cake, and coffee syrup
Orange and polenta cake		Italy	Oranges and polenta
Othellolagkage		Denmark	A layer cake with sponge cake, cream, chocolate, raspberry, egg, vanilla, marzipan,
Paczki		Poland	Round cake with spongy yeast containing strawberry, liqueur, budyn and (sweet) cheese, and other chocolate
Pan di Spagna		Italy	A sponge cake. Italian Jewish families make a traditional version for a Passover.[4]
Pancake		Ancient Rome	Flat, round cake, made with eggs, milk, and plain flour
Panpepato		Italy	Various nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts
Panettone		Italy	Raisins, orange peel, and lemon peel
Parkin		United Kingdom	Treacle and oats
Pavlova		New Zealand	Egg white and sugar (meringue); named after Anna Pavlova
Petit Gâteau		France	Chocolate and served with ice cream
Petits fours		France	Butter cream
Piernik		Poland	Gingerbread with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and cardamom
Pineapple upside-down cake		United Kingdom	Pineapple
Plum cake		United Kingdom (England)	Referred to fruitcake prepared with dried plum and spices in England since around 1700. Today it refers to a cake prepared with dried fruits such as raisins as the primary ingredients.
Pound cake		United Kingdom	Butter, sugar, eggs, flour
Princess cake		Sweden	Alternating layers of sponge cake and whipped cream, a layer of berry jam and a layer of custard, all topped with a layer of (green) marzipan.
Prinzregententorte		Germany	Sponge cake, buttercream, and dark chocolate glaze
Pumpkin bread		United States	Pumpkin, sometimes chocolate
Punschkrapfen		Austria	Cake crumbs, nougat chocolate, apricot jam, and rum
Queen Elizabeth cake		Canada (Quebec)	Coconut, dates
Qumeshtore me pete		Albania	Cream, vanilla, syrup, lemon juice, and lemon skin
Red bean cake		Japan China	Azuki bean and red bean paste
Red velvet cake		United States	Red coloring and cocoa
Rum cake		Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago	Rum, dried fruit
Rum baba		Italian	Rum, yeast, whipped cream
Ruske kape		Bosnia Serbia	Chocolate and coconut
Sachertorte		Austria	Apricot and cream
Šakotis		Lithuania Poland	Traditional cake created by painting layers of dough onto a rotating spit while being baked
Salzburger Nockerl		Austria	Egg yolk, flour and milk
Sekacz		Poland	Sponge cake with chocolate
Sernik		Poland	Cream cheese, sponge cake, raisins and different spices
Sesame seed cake		Unknown	Sesame seeds, often with honey as a sweetener
Sfouf		Lebanon	Almonds and semolina
Simnel cake		United Kingdom	Marzipan and dried fruit
Smoked salmon cheesecake		United Kingdom (Scotland)	Savory cheesecake containing smoked salmon
Smörgåstårta		Sweden Estonia Finland	A cake that literally means "sandwich-cake" or "sandwich gateau'", it is a Scandinavian cuisine dish that is popular in Sweden, Estonia (as võileivatort), and Finland (as voileipäkakku). This savory cake has ingredients similar to a sandwich, but has such a large amount of filling that it more resembles a layered cream cake with garnished top.
Snowball cake		United States	Marshmallow and coconut frosting
Snow skin mooncake		Hong Kong	A Chinese food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a non-baked mooncake which originated in Hong Kong. The snow skin mooncake was developed by a bakery in Hong Kong, because the traditional mooncakes were made with salted duck egg yolks and lotus seed paste, resulting in very high sugar and oil content. It is also known as "snowy mooncake", "icy mooncake", and "crystal mooncake".
Soufflé		France	Cream sauce or purée with beaten egg whites
Spekkoek		Dutch East Indies	Multi-layered, containing cinnamon, clove, mace, and anise
Spice cake		North America	Spices such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, and/or mace
Spit cake		Ancient Greece	A term for hollow, cylindrical cakes prepared on a rotating spit in several European countries
Sponge cake		United Kingdom	Flour, sugar, and eggs
St. Honoré cake		France	Caramel and Chiboust cream
Stack cake		United States	A cake that replaces a wedding cake
Strawberry cake			A cake that uses strawberry as a primary ingredient
Streuselkuchen		Germany	Streusel (butter, flour, and sugar)
Studenterbrød		Denmark	Trøffelmasse (crumbled cakes, cocoa-powder, sugar, butter, liquor), raspberry and chocolate.
Sultana and cherry cake		United Kingdom	Sultanas and glacé cherries
Suncake		Taiwan	A popular Taiwanese dessert originally from the city of Taichung in Taiwan. The typical fillings consist of maltose (condensed malt sugar), and they are usually sold in special gift boxes as souvenirs for visitors.
Swiss roll		United Kingdom	Jam and creamy filling; may come in different colors. Developed in the UK, and not Switzerland as the name implies.
Tarte Tatin		France	Varies, commonly apple or pear
Tea loaf		United Kingdom	Currants, sultanas, and tea
Teacake		United Kingdom	Currants and sultanas
Tiramisu		Italy	Savoiardi and espresso
Tompouce		Netherlands	Cream, icing
Torta Tre Monti		Italy (San Marino)	Hazelnuts
Tres leches cake		Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Sponge cake soaked with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream or sour cream
Tunis cake		Scotland Northern Ireland	Chocolate and marzipan
Træstammer		Denmark	Literally "wooden-logs". Trøffelmasse (crumbled cakes, cocoa-powder, sugar, butter, rum), marzipan and chocolate Sweden has a similar cake known as Punsch-rolls.
Upside-down cake		United Kingdom	A cake that various ingredients like kiwi fruit or guava.
Victoria sponge cake		United Kingdom	A cake that was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. It is often referred to simply as "sponge cake", though it contains additional fat. A typical Victoria sponge consists of raspberry jam and whipped double cream or vanilla cream. The jam and cream are sandwiched between two sponge cakes; the top of the cake is not iced or decorated apart from a dusting of icing sugar. The Women's Institute publishes a variation on the Victoria sandwich that has raspberry jam as the filling and is dusted with caster sugar, not icing sugar.
Vínarterta		Iceland	A multi-layered cake made from dough and plum jam
Wedding cake		Unknown	A traditional cake that is served at wedding receptions following dinner. In the UK, the wedding cake is served at a wedding breakfast, a shared meal held after the ceremony (not necessary in the morning). In modern Western culture, the cake is usually on display and served to guests at the reception.
Welsh cake		United Kingdom (Wales)	Currants
Whoopie pies		United States	Cocoa, vanilla
Wine cake		Colombia	Wine

See also

• List of baked goods
• List of breads
• List of buns
• List of desserts
• List of pancakes
• List of pastries

References

1. Ojakangas, B.A. Great Old-Fashioned American Desserts. University of Minnesota Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-1-4529-0711-6.
2. Richardson, A.; Young, G. (2014). The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing. Simon & Schuster. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-4391-4256-1.
3. "The Funing cake was traced from the workshop black and doping a variety of low-quality additives" (in Chinese). Chinese network news. February 1, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
4. Kaufman, Sheilah. "Sponge Cake - Pan Di Spagna". JW Magazine. Jewish Women International. Retrieved 6 December 2015.