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Sponge Cake Recipes

These 14 recipes highlight the distinctive light and fluffy sponge cake.

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Popular at afternoon teas in England, this light and delicious sponge cake was named in honor of Queen Victoria. See the recipe for Victoria Sponge Cake » Back to Royal Recipes: Food Fit for Kings »

Dulce de Leche Cake Luxuriant moistness is this dessert's calling card. The secret to achieving the cake's decadent texture is to poke it all over with a knife while it's still warm, before dousing it with a rich milk mixture so that it penetrates every part of the cake's interior. See this Recipe

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This classic dessert is moistened with the sweetened, wine-spiked cream known as syllabub. See the recipe for Raspberry Trifle »

Impress your guests with a show-stopping layer cake stuffed with a luscious custard filling and topped with meringue frosting.

Heaven and Hell Cake Dallas chef Stephan Pyles's rich, multilayered dessert of angel food and devil's food cake, peanut butter mousse, and milk chocolate ganache should be frozen before icing is added and refrigerated before it's sliced. See this Recipe

This pineapple sponge cake, developed by chef Judy Haubert as a Mother's Day gift for her mom, swaps coconut flour for the standard all-purpose. It makes for a moister crumb—as well as emphasizing pineapple's tropical flavor—and has the added bonus of making the cake naturally gluten-free.

This version of the traditional French Christmas cake is filled with coffee buttercream and covered in chocolate ganache. See the recipe for Buche de Noel »

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This classic German cake, a masterpiece of cherry brandy-soaked pastry engineering, improves the longer it sits.

These cupcakes are the perfect spring or summer treat--light and airy angel food cake is topped with a tangy lemon-mascarpone frosting and garnished with fresh berries.