Famous cakes

By popular demand, we are now posting the princess cake recipe from Bronte’s book Fika & Hygge – with a few added hints and tips for making the perfect cake. It’s not the easiest cake in the world to make, let’s be honest. But you can do it! You just need some patience and a bit of guidance… And soon you’ll have the perfect Fika cake for your afternoon tea party – and what a beautiful centre piece it is on the table. The cake stems from the royal household in Sweden. Back in the 1940’s when…

The cake became famous in Kiev, Ukraine in 1956. It was developed in a Soviet confectionery factory, but don’t think for a second this is not artisan beauty.

Medovik is a traditional 8 layer honey cake from Russia, and truly one of a kind. It is soft, moist, with lots of caramely-nutty flavour, and just enough tang from the sour cream to beautifully balance out all that honey goodness.

Recreating the famous Cipriani (Harry's bar) Meringue Vanilla Cake that features layers of vanilla sponge cake filled with creamy custard and topped fluffy meringue that's lightly toasted for added flavour.

The white chocolate coconut Bundt cake from Doan’s Bakery in Woodland Hills, California has had famous recipients gushing for years.

Meet this famous layered cake (a.k.a. Dobos Torte) from the Austro-­Hungarian Empire. The buttercream is intensely chocolatey, with a touch of caramel.

The perfect pound cake is moist and flavorful with a crisp, golden brown crust. We tested 4 famous pound cake recipes from King Arthur Baking Co., Grandbaby Cakes, Carla Hall, and Ina Garten to find the best pound cake recipe out here.

I couldn’t help taking another bite of it, and then another.