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Smith Island Cake

This dessert island is known for its refined layer cakes.

King Cake, replete with a baby in the middle. (Usually, the baby is inside the cake, though.)

Once a Year, a Nightmarish King Cake Baby Roams New Orleans

The Mardi Gras mascot incites more jitters than good fortune.

Paula Mejia February 14, 2018

Most Texas sheet cakes come topped with pecans.

Texas Sheet Cake

Funerals in the Lone Star State call for this comforting chocolate treat.

A young competitor showcases a perfect toss.

The Great Fruitcake Toss

Why throw old cakes away when you can launch them by hand, slingshot, or cannon?

This year's atrocious, beautiful cake.

The Mother and Daughter Charming the Internet With Ugly Cakes

It's their birthday tradition.

Paula Mejia January 16, 2018

The French wedding cake.

Croquembouche

This French wedding cake is a caramel-wrapped tower of pastry balls.

Fresh-pressed pandan leaf adds a limey glow to this refresher.

Pandan Leaf Extract

This plant adds a hint of vanilla and a wash of brilliant green to any dish.

A Kransekake in all its glory.

Kransekake

For special occasions, Norwegians stack 18 rings of cake into a tower.

Have your cake and eat it, too.

Atomic Cake

This Chicago specialty stacks three cakes into one monster dessert.

A slice of black cake baked by Mrs. Annemarie Charles, from San Fernando, Trinidad.

Black Cake

Fruit soaks in rum for up to a year to make this rich Caribbean Christmas cake.

Pistachio-flavored instant pudding mix gives Watergate Cake a cosmic glow.

Watergate Cake

Beneath its "cover-up" of icing, this dessert hides a bunch of nuts.

Spit cake in progress.

Lithuanian Spit Cake

This dessert is roasted over a fire and looks like a tree.

One whole election cake weighed more than 70 pounds.

Hartford Election Cake

These massive, booze-filled cakes once made voting sweet.

Ovenly bakes a modern rendition of blackout cake in Brooklyn and wider New York.

Brooklyn Blackout Cake

A cake as dark as a city hiding from enemy bombers.

Ul boov's layers symbolize age and status.

Ul Boov

Mongolia's "shoe sole cake" has the ritual significance of a Christmas tree or family shrine.

Mock mushrooms are often added to yule log cakes, made of either meringue or marzipan.

Yule Log Cake

These holiday cakes link Christmas to the Norse god of lightning.

Modern mooncakes for sale in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Did Mooncakes Help the Chinese Overthrow the Mongols?

On the enduring power of myth and metaphor.

Natasha Frost August 11, 2017

Fruit cake found at Cape Adare thought to be from Scott's Northern Party (1911)

Almost Edible, 106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica

Even the original owners didn't want to eat it.

Natasha Frost August 11, 2017