Name Picture Origin Distinctive ingredients and description

Aranygaluska Hungary

Romania A cake with yeasty dough and vanilla custard

Avocado cake Prepared using avocado as a primary ingredient

Babka Poland Easter cake with icing

Ballokume [3] Albania Corn flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla

Banana cake Prepared using banana as a primary ingredient

Basbousa Somalia A traditional Somali sweet cake that is made of cooked semolina or farina soaked in simple syrup. Coconut is a popular addition. The syrup may also optionally contain orange flower water or rose water.

Batik cake Malaysia A non-baked cake dessert made by mixing broken Marie biscuits, combined with a chocolate sauce or runny custard.

Baumkuchen Germany A German variety of spit cake also popular in Japan. The characteristic rings, which resemble tree rings when sliced, give the cake its German name.

Baumkuchen Germany A kind of layered cake and a traditional dessert that is known in many countries throughout Europe and it is also a popular snack and dessert in Japan. The characteristic rings that appear when sliced resemble tree rings, and give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree cake".

Birthday cake Unknown A cake that has various ingredients, usually chocolate or sponge, and is often topped with icing and candles; the number of candles on top of the cake is often said to represent someone's age - for example, a birthday cake for a nine-year-old will have nine candles on top of it.

Bizcocho Dominicano Dominican Republic A cake with a moist and airy texture and meringue frosting

Blackout cake, sometimes known as "Brooklyn Blackout cake" Brooklyn, United States Chocolate pudding, chocolate layers, chocolate cake crumbs

Blitztorte [4] Germany A "lightning cake" or "quick cake".[5] Lemon zest and lemon juice add flavor to a blitztorte, which is a butter cake (butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and baking powder). It is called a blitztorte because it is quick to make. Also spelled as "blitz torte".[6]

Blondie United States A rich, sweet dessert bar. It is made from flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, and vanilla, and may also contain walnuts or pecans. It may contain white or dark chocolate chips and it can have a taste reminiscent of butterscotch.

Brazil nut cake Prepared using Brazil nuts as a primary ingredient, they are common in the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru

Butterkuchen Germany A simple buttery and sweet German cake baked on a tray[7]

Brownie United States, Canada A flat, baked square or bar developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized in both the US and Canada during the first half of the 20th century.

Bundt cake United States A cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive ring shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe, but they are often made with chocolate.

Butterfly cake United Kingdom A variant of cupcake, also called "fairy cake" for its fairy-like "wings". They can be made from any flavor of cake. The top of the fairy cake is cut off or carved out with a spoon, and cut in half. Then, butter cream, whipped cream, or other sweet filling like jam is spread into the hole. Finally, the two cut halves are stuck into the butter cream to look like butterfly wings. The wings of the cake are often decorated using icing to form various patterns.

Cassata Italy (Sicily) Cassata consists of round sponge cake moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling similar to cannoli cream. It is covered with a shell of marzipan, pink and green pastel colored icing, and decorative designs. The cassata is topped with candied fruit depicting cherries and slices of citrus fruit characteristic of Sicily.

Caterpillar cake United Kingdom Chocolate Swiss roll with sugar coated chocolate beans, loved by the British population[ citation needed ]

Cheesecake Ancient Greece Thin base made from crushed biscuits, with a thicker top layer of soft cheese, eggs and sugar. It can be baked or unbaked (in which case it is refrigerated.)

Chenna poda India (Orissa) A cake made from milk solids and semolina. Milk solids are the main ingredient and is known as "chhena". This cake is a specialty of the state of Orissa in India chhena cardamom ghee cashewnut

Clementine cake A cake prepared with clementine as a primary ingredient

Coconut cake United States A popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States. It is a cake frosted with a white frosting and covered in coconut flakes.

Cremeschnitte Slovenia

Croatia

Germany A vanilla and custard cream cake dessert popular in several central-European countries. There are many regional variations, but they all include puff pastry base and custard cream.

Crystal cake China One of the traditional desserts in China, it has more than 800 years of history. It was first invented in Xiagui during the Song Dynasty, then it spread far and wide. It was called "crystal cake" because its filling shines brightly, and its appearance is glittering and translucent, like a crystal.

Cucumber cake A cake prepared with cucumber as a primary ingredient. It is a dish in Goan cuisine.

Cupcake Unknown A small cake with various ingredients, usually topped with icing

Dacquoise France Almonds, hazelnut, and chocolate

Date square Canada (probably) Also known as "matrimonial cake", a layer of minced dates with oat crumble

Dobos cake Hungary A sponge cake that is layered with chocolate butter cream and topped with thin caramel slices

Eierschecke Saxony and Thuringia (Germany) A sheet cake made of yeast dough topped with apple, quark (curd) and poppy seeds and parts of it are covered with a glaze made of cream, whole egg, sugar and flour for thickening.

Erotic cake [12] Unknown A cake made to resemble or decorated with the image of a human body (often nude or semi-nude), individual sex organs, or sexual activities, sometimes with a statement of a sexual nature written on it

Esterházy torte Hungary

Austria A Hungarian cake (torta) named after Prince Paul III Anton Esterházy de Galántha (1786–1866). It was invented by Budapest confectioners in the late 19th century. It consists of cognac or vanilla buttercream, sandwiched between layers of almond meringue (macaroon) dough. The torte is iced with a fondant glaze and decorated with a characteristic chocolate striped pattern.

Faworki Poland Sweet crisp cake in shape of a bow

Fig cake Egypt Prepared with fig as a primary ingredient

Financier France A small cake, the financier is light and moist, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. The distinctive feature of the recipe is beurre noisette (brown butter). Other ingredients include egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. They are baked in shaped molds, usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. In terms of texture, it is springy with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior.

Gâteau nantais Nantes Pound cake with almonds and rum.

Goose breast (Gåsebryst) [15] Denmark [15] A cream cake known as Gåsebryst in Denmark.[15] A Danish pastry bottom, topped with whipped cream, custard and jam, wrapped in marzipan.

Hash brownies Netherlands

Belgium Also known as "space cakes", these are bakery products made using one of the forms of cannabis, including hashish.

Hedgehog Slice It contains crushed biscuit, or rice puffs. It has totally different names in each language.

Jaffa Cakes United Kingdom A biscuit-sized cake introduced by MacVitie and Price in 1927, and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common forms of Jaffa Cakes are circular, 2.5 inches (64 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavored jelly, and a coating of chocolate.

Kabuni Albania [17] Rice, butter, mutton broth, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, cloves

Karpatka Poland Two to eight layers of very flattened sweet bake pastry with cream and sweet cheese, normally served with fruit and budyn and cardamom and ice cream which may have alcohol also on the side of this luxurious dessert

Kiev cake Ukraine Two airy layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling

Khanom bodin Thailand Wheat flour (or Maida flour), fresh butter, fresh milk, chicken eggs, sweetened condensed milk, white sugar, raisins, dried sweet gourds

Kołacz Poland Sweet cheese and cream

Kolaczki Poland Butter, sugar, jam, egg whites, different sweet sugar powder

Kransekake Denmark

Norway Almonds, sugar, egg whites

Kremówka Germany, Slovakia A Polish type of cream pie. It is made of two layers of puff pastry, filled with whipped cream, creamy buttercream, vanilla pastry cream (custard cream) or sometimes egg white cream, and is usually sprinkled with powdered sugar. It also can be decorated with cream or covered with a layer of icing.

Krówka Poland Chocolate, sponge base, caramel and coconut

Kue cubit Indonesia A small cake eaten as a snack.

Kutia Poland

Belarus

Ukraine

Lithuania

Russia Various nuts and raisins

Lady Baltimore cake Southern United States (its exact origins are disputed) Dried fruit, nuts, frosting

Lane cake Southeastern USA Candied fruit, sponge cake, pecans, coconut, bourbon, vanilla buttercream

Makowiec Poland Poppy seed cake, normally decorated with icing and orange

Magdalena Spain Eggs, granulated sugar, unsalted butter, unbleached white flour, lemon zest, baking powder and milk

Mazurek Poland Easter cake with a type of shortcrust tart and topping

Medovik Russia A layer cake popular in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union

Merveilleux Belgium Two light meringues welded and covered with whipped cream and dusted with chocolate shavings.

Mille-feuille France Also known as a Napoleon, is three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of pastry cream. The top is glazed in white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and combed into a distinctive pattern.

Misérable cake Belgium A type of almond sponge cake that is a traditional Belgian recipe

Molten chocolate cake France/United States Also known as lava cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a flourless chocolate cake (sometimes called a "chocolate decadence" cake) and a soufflé. Some other names used are "chocolate fondant", "chocolate moelleux", and "chocolate lava" cake.

Mooncake China A Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiujie)

Moravian sugar cake Pennsylvania German Country /United States A sweet coffee cake that originated in the colonial Moravian Church. It is made with a sweet yeast dough enriched with mashed potatoes and topped with a mixture of melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon.

Muffin Unknown An individual-sized quick bread product which can be sweet or savory. The typical American "muffin" is similar to a cupcake in size and cooking methods. These can come in both savory varieties, such as corn or cheese muffins, or sweet varieties such as blueberry or banana. It also refers to a flatter disk-shaped bread of English origin, commonly referred to as an "English muffin" outside the United Kingdom. These muffins are also popular in Commonwealth countries and the United States.

Napeleonskake [24][ self-published source ] Norway

Denmark

Iceland A cake that is similar to tompouce, but it has different flavors like caramel or carob

Nasturtium cake [25][ self-published source ] Spain [25] A cake made primarily with egg yolk and syrup, prepared in a water bath. The cake is usually presented in a cylindrical shape or a rectangle, depending on the mold. It can often be served at room temperature.

Onion cake A savory or sweet cake prepared with onion as a primary ingredient[26]

Oponki or Pączki Poland Round spongy yeast cake with sweet topping and other chocolate

Ostkaka Sweden Also called Swedish cheesecake

Piernik [31] Poland [31] Gingerbread with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and cardamom

Plum cake United Kingdom (England) Referred to fruitcake prepared with dried plum and spices in England since around 1700. Today it refers to a cake prepared with dried fruits such as raisins as the primary ingredients.

Prinzregententorte Germany Sponge cake, buttercream, and dark chocolate glaze

Punschkrapfen Austria Cake crumbs, nougat chocolate, apricot jam, and rum

Queen cake United Kingdom A soft, muffin-sized cake, popular from early 18th century, and containing currants and flavored with mace and orange, or lemon water.

Raisin cake Cake prepared with raisins as a primary ingredient

Šakotis Lithuania

Poland Traditional cake created by painting layers of dough onto a rotating spit while being baked

Sans rival Philippines layers of buttercream, meringue and chopped cashews

Sekacz Poland Sponge cake with chocolate

Sernik Poland Cream cheese, sponge cake, raisins and different spices

Smörgåstårta Sweden

Estonia

Finland A cake that literally means "sandwich-cake" or "sandwich gateau", it is a Scandinavian cuisine dish that is popular in Sweden, Estonia (as võileivatort), and Finland (as voileipäkakku). This savory cake has ingredients similar to a sandwich, but has such a large amount of filling that it more resembles a layered cream cake with garnished top.

Snow skin mooncake Hong Kong A Chinese food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a non-baked mooncake which originated in Hong Kong. The snow skin mooncake was developed by a bakery in Hong Kong, because the traditional mooncakes were made with salted duck egg yolks and lotus seed paste, resulting in very high sugar and oil content. It is also known as "snowy mooncake", "icy mooncake", and "crystal mooncake".

Soufflé France Cream sauce or purée with beaten egg whites

Spit cake Ancient Greece A term for hollow, cylindrical cakes prepared on a rotating spit in several European countries

Stack cake United States A cake that replaces a wedding cake

Strawberry cake A cake that uses strawberry as a primary ingredient

Suncake Taiwan A popular Taiwanese dessert originally from the city of Taichung in Taiwan. The typical fillings consist of maltose (condensed malt sugar), and they are usually sold in special gift boxes as souvenirs for visitors.

Swiss roll United Kingdom Jam and creamy filling; may come in different colors. Developed in the UK, and not Switzerland as the name implies.

Tarte Tatin France Varies, commonly apple or pear

Træstammer [32] Denmark Literally "wooden-logs". Trøffelmasse (crumbled cakes, cocoa-powder, sugar, butter, rum), marzipan and chocolate Sweden has a similar cake known as Punsch-rolls.

Ul boov Mongolia A cake made with sheep fat

Upside-down cake United Kingdom A cake that is flipped upside-down before serving. Usually made with fruit, particularly pineapple.

Victoria sponge cake United Kingdom A cake that was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. It is often referred to simply as "sponge cake", though it contains additional fat. A typical Victoria sponge consists of raspberry jam and whipped double cream or vanilla cream. The jam and cream are sandwiched between two sponge cakes; the top of the cake is not iced or decorated apart from a dusting of icing sugar. The Women's Institute publishes a variation on the Victoria sandwich that has raspberry jam as the filling and is dusted with caster sugar, not icing sugar.

Vínarterta Iceland A multi-layered cake made from dough and plum jam

Wedding cake Unknown A traditional cake that is served at wedding receptions following dinner. In the UK, the wedding cake is served at a wedding breakfast, a shared meal held after the ceremony (not necessarily in the morning). In modern Western culture, the cake is usually on display and served to guests at the reception.