European cakes and tortes

This Napoleon Cake recipe features layers of flaky pastry and luscious vanilla-flecked pastry cream. It's a beautiful classic Russian cake.

Smetannik is a traditional Russian layer cake. It's usually made with a combination of flour, sugar, eggs, honey, and a sour cream frosting consisting of sour cream, vanilla, cream cheese, and milk

By: Francesca Montillo, ISDA Food & Travel Writer Growing up in southern Italy, I was pretty fortunate that I had a stay-at-home mom who was quite the cook and baker. It wasn’t until years later, after our move to the U.S., where mom joined the “working world,” and lost the time to bake all of … Continued

This Chocolate Layer Cake is an elegant and decadent chocolate dessert, by far one of the best chocolate cakes ever. It is moist and rich, with thin chocolate sponge cake layers, an irresistible chocolate and cream cheese frosting and topped with a silky chocolate ganache.

Dobos Torte is traditionally a confection with thin sponge layers, filled and frosted with a rich chocolate buttercream, and covered with a clear sheet of caramel glaze. In this version the caramel is cut into triangles and placed in a fan design on top of the cake.The chocolate buttercream uses uncooked egg yolks. It's very important to use pasteurized eggs for safe use in this dish. If you're preparing this cake for guests who might be sensitive to this, or if you prefer not to eat raw egg…

Italian Spumoni Cake with moist and crumbly layers of strawberry, chocolate and pistachio flavours, and frosted with vanilla buttercream.

There is a long running joke about just the one fruit cake making the rounds at Christmas, it being passed around like a hot potato. For the benefit of fruit cake lovers, I would like to debunk the myth. First of all, most fruit cake recipes make at least two loaves because of the amount of ingredients involved in making it. So if the joke were true, there should at least be two fruit cakes going around. Corniness aside, there are a lot of people who take fruit cake making seriously. I must…

This Paradise Cake features a fluffy vanilla-flavored sponge cake filled with sweet cream, honey, vanilla, and orange blossom. Simply heavenly!

Austrian Sacher Torte recipe in English! Two layers of dense chocolate cake, filled and coated with apricot jam and glazed with chocolate glaze.

While making Opera Cake from scratch will have you spend a hefty chunk of time in the kitchen, I swear it's so decadent, it's totally worth the effort.