Top 10 Homemade Cake Recipes

You have your favourite cake; perhaps you have several. Have you ever wondered where yours fares on the top ten list of homemade cakes? Read on and find out.

1. Mile High Chocolate Cake.

For chocolate lovers this is the ultimate cake recipe. It consists of four dark chocolate layers with milk chocolate filling. It is rich and decadent and easy to make.

2. Fresh Coconut Layer Cake

Vanilla cake layers brushed with a syrup made from coconut water and sugar make for a moist and delicious cake. The frosting includes fresh toasted coconut for the most intense flavor.

3. Rum-Scented Marble Cake

Everyone likes a little rum, and finding some in your cake is always a nice surprise. This bundt cake has a choclate center flavored with rum, guaranteed to please.

4. Persian Love Cake

This is a cake to be remembered. Combining a lemon-cardamom chiffon cake with saffron and rose scented whipped cream, it also has pistachios and candied rose petals for a stand-out middle eastern effect.

5. Semisweet Chocolate Layer Cake with Vanilla Cream Filling

This moist dark chocolate cake has a delicious fluffy cream filling, reminiscent of Oreos or Hydrox cookies. Complete with a chocolate ganache, it is chocolate cake at its creamiest.

6. Mixed Berry Chiffon Cake with Almond Cream Frosting

Sometimes berries make for the finest dessert, especially when they're in season. Excellent for a summer outing, this cake is filled with almond custard and raspberry preserves and crowned with a multitude of fresh berries.

7. Twelve Layer Mocha Cake

If you like a little coffee with your cake, here is a great recipe. With espresso soaked spongecake, hazelnut meringue, chocolate souffle' along with coffee and mocha buttercreams, it may not be the easiest cake to make but it is well worth the effort.

8. Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake with Cream Cheese and Butterfinger Frosting

The combination of chocolate and peanut butter is a favorite with many people. This cake uses golden brown sugar for an extra burst of flavor. And the vanilla cream cheese frosting is to die for.

9. White Chocolate Layer Cake with Apricot Filling and White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

You cannot have a top ten cake list without a white chocolate one making a showing, and this one is a real winner. Using apricots when they're in season adds to the flavor. Walnuts pressed into the frosting make an ultimate finish.

10. Cherry-Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake

A variation on the familiar Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, this creation utilizes a more rustic flair. It is cooked in a skillet then turned out onto a serving platter, exposing caramelized sugar and fruit. A little balsamic vinegar on the side turns up the taste to a new level.

These are only ten of many favourite cakes from around the world. You can find a multitude of cooking websites that will list other cake recipes and cake baking products. However, the ones listed here can be completely satisfying in your hunt for the best homemade cakes to be found.