20 Best Dessert and Cake Recipes

The 20 best cake recipes and dessert recipes, as chosen by our readers

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Over the years, we've tempted our readers with dessert recipes we've collected from all over the globe. We took a look at the recipe pages that people have bookmarked, linked to, and searched for the most.
What we found was surprising—cakes rule our readers' dessert cart (naturally), but a few unique cookies and sweets also floated to the top of the list. SAVEUR.com readers have a soft spot for regional sweets and a fondness for coconut. They prefer chocolate over fruit desserts, with chocolate–peanut butter combinations, well, taking the cake.
Here are SAVEUR's 20 most popular sweets and cake recipes, in descending order.

20. German Chocolate Cake

This decadent triple-layer dessert takes its name from German's Sweet Chocolate, a product that's not German at all: the versatile baking chocolate was created by an American baker named Samuel German in 1852. The origins of the cake were detailed by Nick Malgieri in "American Beauty," an article in SAVEUR's December 2009 issue.

Get the German Chocolate Cake recipe

Comments (5)

by ahtia on 2011-04-29

I would love to have all recipes from your December 2010 issue, especially the recipe for Vanilla-Rum Custard please print

by NIKITA27 on 2012-10-05

The 20 Best Desserts does not have desserts after the 1st one. It points to other main courses...

by MARIEM8005@MAIL.COM on 2013-03-14

I don"t have any comment

by MARIEM8005@MAIL.COM on 2013-03-14

I am sorry I don't have any comment at this time thanks

Marie Lourdes Michel

by MARIEM8005@MAIL.COM on 2013-03-14

Iam very please that I am part of you now I am a cake lover I love to bake plese don't forget to send me all the cake recipe you have my only trouble I am not too good to do cake decoration I would like to take a cake decoration classes. thanks

Marie Lourdes Michel