The following is a list of types of dessert cakes by country of origin and distinctive ingredient. The majority of cakes contain some kind of flour, egg and sugar. These ingredients are not listed:
| Name | Image | Origin | Main ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel cake | United Kingdom | Sponge cake, cream. | |
| Angel food cake | United States | Vanilla and cream of tartar | |
| Apple cake | Unknown | Apple | |
| Aranygaluska | Hungary or Romania | Yeasty dough; vanilla custard | |
| Bakewell tart | United Kingdom | Almond, and raspberry jam; is often topped with icing. May be given additional ingredients, such as glace cherries in the case of cherry bakewells, lemon in the case of lemon bakewells or toffee in the case of toffee bakewells. | |
| Ballokume | Albania | Cornflour,butter,sugar and vanillia | |
| 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 | Varies | |
| Bibingka | Philippines | Coconut milk and rice flour | |
| Bienenstich (Bee Sting) | Germany | Almonds, honey, custard cream | |
| Birthday cake | Unknown | Varies, usually chocolate or sponge, and is often topped with
icing and candles |
|
| Black Forest cake, often known as "Black Forest gâteau" | Germany | Cherries, kirsch, and chocolate | |
| 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 | Varies, often chocolate | |
| Butter cake | United Kingdom | Butter | |
| Butterfly cake | United Kingdom | Varies | |
| Carrot cake | Denmark | Carrots | |
| Cheesecake | Cream cheese and pastry; may come in a variety of flavours. | ||
| Chiffon cake | United States | Vegetable oil | |
| 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". | |
| Coffee cake | Germany | Cinnamon | |
| Croquembouche | France | Caramel, almond, and chocolate | |
| Cupcake | Worldwide | Varies; is usually topped with icing, but the colour of the icing may vary (is sometimes topped with chocolate flavoured icing in which the case the icing will be brown, is sometimes lemon, and is sometimes orange). | |
| Dacquoise | France | Almonds, hazelnut, and chocolate | |
| Date and walnut loaf | United Kingdom | Dates, walnuts, treacle, and tea | |
| Date square | Probably Canada | Also known as Matrimonial Cake, is 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 | Spongecake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with thin caramel slices | |
| Dundee cake | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Fruit cake with almonds on it | |
| Eccles cake | United Kingdom | Currants | |
| Esterhazy torte | Hungary, Austria | chocolate buttercream, sponge cake | |
| Fat rascal | United Kingdom | Dried fruit, peel, oats | |
| Flourless chocolate cake | Unknown | Chocolate | |
| French Fancy | United Kingdom | Fondant, cream | |
| Frog cake | Australia | Cream, icing | |
| Fruitcake | Caribbean | Candied fruit; many versions of the fruit cake contain currants, sultanas and glace cherries. | |
| Funing big cake | Funing County, Jiangsu province, China. | Its raw materials are traditionally comprised of sticky rice, white sugar and refined lard. Due to health concerns associated with lard consumption, sometimes vegetable oil is used instead of lard. | |
| Genoa cake | Probably Genoa | Sultanas, raisins, glacé Cherries | |
| Genoise (Genoese cake) | Probably Genoa | Whole egg | |
| Gingerbread | Probably United Kingdom | Ginger | |
| Gooey butter cake | United States | Butter | |
| Hot milk cake | Probably United States | Milk, and mocha | |
| Ice cream cake | Unknown | Ice cream | |
| Jaffa Cakes | United Kingdom | Orange juice | |
| Kabuni | Albania | Rice, butter, mutton broth, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, cloves | |
| Kendal Mint Cake | United Kingdom | Peppermint | |
| 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 | |
| Kouign-amann | Brittany, France | Butter | |
| Kransekake | Denmark, Norway | Almonds, sugar, egg whites | |
| Lady Baltimore Cake | United States | Dried Fruit, Nuts, Frosting | |
| Lamington | Australia | Chocolate icing, and desiccated coconut | |
| Layer cake | Yolk, sugar, butter, flour | ||
| Lemon cake | Unknown | Lemon | |
| Madeira cake | United Kingdom | Butter and sugar | |
| Magdalenas | Spain | Eggs, granulated sugar, unsalted butter, unbleached white flower, lemon zest, baking powder and milk | |
| Mantecada | Northern Spain | Eggs, flour, sugar and butter (cow fat in the Mantecadas de Astorga; corn flour in Colombia) | |
| Marble cake | Denmark | Mixture of flavours including vanilla, coffee, and/or chocolate | |
| 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. | |
| Molten chocolate cake | United States | Chocolate. | |
| Mooncake | China | Varies | |
| Muffin | Unknown | Varies | |
| Opera cake | France | Ganache, sponge cake, and coffee syrup | |
| Orange and polenta cake | Italy | Oranges and polenta | |
| Pampepato | Italy | Varies, almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts | |
| Panettone | Italy | Raisins, orange peel, and lemon peel | |
| Parkin | United Kingdom | Treacle and oats | |
| Pavlova | Australia/New Zealand | Egg white and sugar (meringue); named after Anna Pavlova | |
| Petits fours | France | Butter cream | |
| Pineapple upside-down cake | United Kingdom | Pineapple | |
| Pontefract cake | United Kingdom | Liquorice | |
| Pound cake | United Kingdom | Butter, sugar | |
| Prinsesstårta | 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 Elisabeth cake | Quebec, Canada | Coconut, dates | |
| Qumeshtore me pete | Albania | cream vanillia,syrup,juice lemon and lemon skin | |
| Red bean cake | Japan and China | Azuki bean and red bean paste | |
| Red velvet cake | United States | red colouring and cocoa | |
| Rum cake | Caribbean | Rum, dried fruit | |
| Ruske kape | Bosnia and Serbia | Chocolate, and coconut | |
| Sachertorte | Austria | Apricot, and cream | |
| Šakotis | Lithuanian-Polish | Traditional cake created by painting layers of dough onto a rotating spit while being baked. | |
| Salzburger Nockerl | Austria | Egg yolk, flour and milk | |
| Sesame seed cake | Sesame seeds, often with honey as a sweetener | ||
| Simnel cake | United Kingdom | Marzipan and dried fruit | |
| Soufflé | France | Cream sauce or purée with beaten egg whites | |
| Spekkoek | Dutch East Indies | Multi-layered, containing cinnamon, clove, mace and anise. | |
| Spice cake | United States | Predominant flavorings include spices such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger and/or mace | |
| Sponge cake | United Kingdom | Flour, sugar and eggs. | |
| St. Honoré cake | France | Caramel and Chiboust cream | |
| Stack cake | United States | Varies | |
| Streuselkuchen | Germany | Streusel (butter, flour and sugar) | |
| Sultana and cherry cake | United Kingdom | Sultanas and glace cherries | |
| Suncake | Taiwan | Flaky pastry | |
| Swiss roll | United Kingdom, not Switzerland as the name implies | Jam and creamy filling; may come in different colours. | |
| Tarte Tatin | France | Apple | |
| 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 | San Marino | Hazelnuts | |
| Tres leches cake | Costa Rica, Mexico or Nicaragua | Evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream or sour cream | |
| Tunis cake | Chocolate and marzipan | ||
| Upside-down cake | United Kingdom | Varies | |
| Victoria sponge cake | United Kingdom | Varies | |
| Wedding cake | Unknown | Varies | |
| Welsh cake | United Kingdom (Wales) | Currants | |
| Whoopie pies | United States | Cocoa, vanilla | |
| Wine cake | Colombia | Wine | |
| Yōkan | Japan | Red bean paste |
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If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmastered importunity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)