Winning White Cake Recipes

Recipe: Coconut Cake with Rum Filling and Coconut Ermine Frosting

December 2016

Recipe: Red Velvet Cheesecake-Vanilla Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

December 2016

Recipe: Pepperming Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting

Decmeber 2016

Recipe: White Chocolate Poinsettia Cake

December 2016

Recipe: Spice Cake with Cranberry Filling

Pipe a ring of frosting around the cake layer, just inside the top edge, to keep filling from oozing out.

December 2015

Recipe: White Cake with Peppermint Frosting

Garnish with a fondant bow or Peppermint Meringue Cookies.

December 2014

Recipe: Red Velvet-White Chocolate Cheesecake

Whimsy meets elegance in all five layers of this red velvet-white chocolate wonder.

December 2013

Watch: Assembling Our White Layer Cake

Recipe: Gingerbread Cake with Buttermilk Frosting

Warm spices and molasses blend beautifully with tangy buttermilk frosting.

December 2014

Recipe: White Cake with Bourbon Buttercream and Seven-Minute FrostingTop this cake with Sugar-Coated Orange Slices and Sparkling Cherries.

December 2014

Recipe: Marbled Pumpkin Praline Cake

Marbled Pumpkin Praline Cake garnished with sugared pecans, kumquats, and bay leaves.

from 2012 Runner-Up Marylin Boone

Recipe: Peppermint-Hot Chocolate Cake Recipe

Peppermint-Hot Chocolate Cake garnished with peppermint candies and rolled wafer cookies.

from 2012 Runner-Up Brittany Shaw

Recipe: Mrs. Billett's White Cake

Think of this instant classic as the little black dress of white cakes. It's appropriate for every occasion on its own and versatile enough to show-case any of festive fillings and frostings.

Meet 2012 White Cake Recipe Contest Winner Sue Winter

from 2012 Winner Sue Winter

Recipe: Chocolate-Gingerbread-Toffee Cake

This cake recipe has all the wonderful flavors that come tumbling out of a stocking: milk chocolate Santas, gingerbread men, and buttery toffee candy.

Meet the 2011 White Cake Contest Winner Lynn Brown

from 2011 Winner Lynn Brown

Recipe: Layered Peppermint Cheesecake

We loved Melodie Belcher's cake, Runner-Up of our 2011 White Cake Contest, for its childlike whimsy, candy crunch, and—hello!—hidden layers of cheesecake.

from 2011 Runner-Up Melodie Belcher

Recipe: Tiramisù Layer Cake

This cake is hands down the tastiest of the many takes on tiramisù we ran across during judging of our 2011 White Cake Contest. Michelle Matile's runner-up recipe offers the delicious flavor of traditional tiramisù but the decorating opportunities of a layer cake.

from 2011 Runner-Up Michelle Matile