Cake

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

In Yorkshire, the holidays usher in this salty-sweet combo.

A few Baltimore bakeries still serve this cheesecake named after 19th-century cottage cheese.

This traditional dessert commemorates the country's sweet taste of victory over the French emperor in 1812.

Goa's signature baked pudding cake is multicultural and multilayered.

At some New Orleans weddings, bridesmaids predict their futures with these hidden charms.

This beloved Russian dessert is the brainchild of Soviet-era housewives with meat grinders.

Meet Sweden's savory “sandwich cake.”

The dainty, cream-filled specialty is on the brink of extinction.

At Danish birthday parties, you can have your cake and decapitate it, too.

The decadent pastry almost outshines the Slovenian lake it's named for.

On November 5, the British celebrate a thwarted assassination attempt with bonfires and deliciously dense, sticky gingerbread.

A cake so gooey, it requires a spoon.

One small Portuguese town celebrates a saint with phallic cakes.