297 sheet cake recipes

Two-layer banana cake studded with chopped Butterfinger bars, spiked with dark rum, and coated in a glossy semisweet chocolate ganache. A showstopper that can be made 2 days ahead.

Three-ingredient triple fudge brownies built on chocolate pudding mix, chocolate cake mix, and semi-sweet chips. Dense, fudgy, and fast. The semi-homemade trick that fooled every PTA bake sale.

Chocolate truffle cake à la Café de Paris: layered chocolate cake split and filled with a glossy chocolate-fondant-cream ganache, chilled overnight for clean truffle slices.

Fudgy brownies with melted semi-sweet chocolate, sour cream, and chocolate chips folded in. Intentionally underbaked for a dense, gooey center that firms up as it cools.

A moist chocolate date cake baked in an 8-inch square pan with chocolate chips in the batter and a crunchy chip-nut-sugar topping. Dates softened in boiling water keep it impossibly tender. The kind of no-fuss cake you carry straight to the picnic in the pan.

Chocolate chip cookies made from yellow cake mix with just 5 extra ingredients. Soft, cakey cookies with walnuts that come together in minutes and bake in 12.

Reine de Saba, the classic French chocolate almond cake with a fudgy center and glossy chocolate glaze. Ground almonds replace most of the flour for a rich, dense crumb.

Gypsy John is a layered chocolate cake with rum-spiked whipped chocolate filling and a glossy ganache frosting. A rich, elegant dessert cut into squares for easy serving.

White Lily pound cake bakes a classic Southern butter-and-shortening pound cake with vanilla and almond extracts in soft White Lily flour. A Southern grandmother's pound cake recipe.

Quick toffee chocolate cake assembled from store-bought pound cake split and filled with chocolate-sour cream frosting and crushed English toffee. Ready in 25 minutes.

Chocolate pinon cookies with grated semi-sweet chocolate and toasted pine nuts in a buttery shortbread dough, dusted with powdered sugar. A Southwestern-inspired holiday cookie.

Black bottom cupcakes drop a sweet cream cheese filling studded with chocolate chips into chocolate cake mix batter, baking into a self-frosting cupcake. Travel-friendly picnic dessert with no icing to melt.

Three-layer chocolate souffle cake filled and frosted with homemade chocolate pudding made from scratch. Light, airy layers meet thick, velvety custard.

Double chocolate slice-and-bake refrigerator cookies with melted chocolate, mini chips, and a hint of cinnamon. Make-ahead dough freezes for 2 months.

A layered coffee cake built on a yellow cake mix and sour cream batter, swirled with a crunchy brown sugar streusel packed with chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon. Easy enough for a weekday morning, fancy enough for brunch guests.

Gold medal caramel bars layer a chocolate cake mix base with caramel topping and chocolate chips, then crumbled cake mix streusel. Four-ingredient potluck bars for the cookie swap.