Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

If there is ever a day for a special dessert, it's Christmas. And, I'm sorry, guys, but pies belong to Thanksgiving. (Actually, so does turkey. Bring on the tamales or spaghetti & meatballs, please.) 


Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table


Here are nine of our favorite cakes, from cheesecakes to layer cakes, that will even impress your mother-in-law.

(Click the titles to go to the recipes.)


Mom's Italian Cream Cake

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

If we had company, my mom was making this cake. While I yearned for chocolate cake as a kid, I'm in love with this cake as an adult. The pecans, the coconut, the cream cheese - oh man, it's luscious. 


Yellow Cake with Chocolate Filling and Salted Caramel Buttercream

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

My secret to the salted caramel frosting is this: I use fleur de sel...not as a finishing salt, but actually in the frosting. I think that makes it extra delicious.


Chocolate Coffee Cheescake

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

Are you thinking cheesecake? Christmas makes me think of cheesecake. This cheesecake is intensely chocolate with a subtle coffee flavor and a layer of silky ganache on top. SWOON.


Perfect Cheesecake

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

Ok, so maybe you ARE thinking cheesecake but want a more traditional one? Let me introduce you to what I call "perfect cheesecake." A reviewer says, "It was like silk, stunningly creamy and amazing. 10 stars!!"


Chocolate Praline Roulade

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

A light and airy flourless chocolate cake filled with a vanilla cream cheese topped studded with bits of pecan praline. The entire cake is enrobed in the richest chocolate ganache ever and is adorned with piped chocolate decorations. A dessert fit for Paul Hollywood...or your mother-in-law. 


Boozy Pudding Cake

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

THIS is one of the most popular recipes EVER on the blog! Does it surprise you that it's an adaptation of a Pioneer Woman recipe? I made this when I highlighted her (then newest) cookbook, A Year of Holidays. My secret: Kahlua. 


Spiced Poppy Seed Cake with Almond Buttercream

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

A poppy seed cake made with warm spices, honey, and a little whole wheat flour.  The frosting is a rich, fluffy, American buttercream flavored with almond & vanilla. Oh. My. 


Flourless Mocha Cake

 Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

Fudgy, rich, and chocolatey with a hint of coffee flavor, this flourless cake is perfect for anyone wanting a decadent dessert without gluten. 


Yellow Cake with Cookie Dough Filling and Fudge Frosting

Nine Showstopping Cakes for your Christmas Dessert Table

The holidays are a time to go all-out with desserts, so why not go all-out with cookie dough filling?!? A hit with kids and adults alike. Let's take a moment to meditate on those fudge frosting swirls. 


Now to decide which one to make this year...

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