Cake Recipes

Find the best cake recipe for your restaurant or other food business
By Kristina Seleshanko Cakes are an American favorite, and a good cake recipe will keep your customers coming back for more. There are an extraordinary number of cakes to choose from, allowing you to please your customers with traditional favorites and creative new concoctions. Display your cakes well, and your customers will not be able to resist!

When seeking cake recipes and cake recipe tips, look for desserts your customers are familiar with (like chocolate pudding cake) as well as more exotic desserts (like mandarin orange cake)...and don't neglect cheesecakes, either. When researching cake recipes, try the following:

1. Seek an online cake recipe that appeals to you.

2. Buy a cake recipe book written by an established cookbook author.

3. Test several cake recipes and cake recipe ingredients in your kitchen, choosing only the very best concoctions for your customers.

Select an online cake recipe

Recipes found online have the advantage of being free, and often they are reviewed by fellow cooks (although most are amateur). Although it makes sense to look for a cake recipe at a well-established recipe website, don't neglect smaller websites dedicated to desserts.
Try:  Joyofbaking.com features many free cake recipes, including blackberry cream cheese coffee cake, buttermilk fruit cake, cherry cake and hummingbird cake. PastryWiz also offers free cake recipes, like mocha pudding cake, mandarin orange cake and pumpkin cake with chocolate glaze.

Find a cake recipe card for cheesecake

Cheesecake continues to delight American taste buds, so don't forget to add one or two to your menu. A standard cheesecake is a good place to begin, but also check out some of the more creative cheesecake recipes available.
Try:  Recipes 4 Cakes has a good selection of cheesecake recipes, including amaretto cheesecake, chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake and orange blossom cheesecake. Cheesecake-Recipes.com also has many recipes for cheesecakes, like gala apricot, brownie swirl, banana nut and lemon delight cheesecake.

Make use of a cake recipe book

A good cake recipe book is a must if you have serious interest in cooking cakes for your customers. Not only will a cookbook offer tested recipes, but it should offer excellent general baking tips that can help make cakes easy to prepare and delicious to eat.
Try:  Tower.com sells Manuela Paul, Maria Guarnaschelli and Rose Levy Beranbaum's definitive "The Cake Bible." Cooking.com carries "The Cake Book" by Tish Boyle, with plenty of recipes and tips for making the perfect cake. Books Nation offers "Cheesecakes Extraordinaire" by Mary Crownover, with over 100 recipes for all types of cheesecakes.

• When thinking about cake recipe ingredients, consider swapping ordinary milk with buttermilk. It will give the cake better texture. For each cup of buttermilk, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to the cake's dry ingredients.