7 Simple Cakes That Will Wow Your Family

Elegant and simple, this rich and buttery pound cake is like the little black dress of dessert.

Jam-packed with fresh strawberries, this strawberry cake is one of the simplest, most delicious cakes you’ll ever make.

Adapted from Melissa Weller, this chocolate chip ricotta cake has a rich flavor and an impossibly moist texture.

Loaded with blueberries and bright flavor, this lemon blueberry pound cake makes a wonderful brunch or anytime cake.

With chunks of sweet apples nestled in a tender and buttery rum cake, this French apple cake is the essence of simplicity.

This chocolate loaf cake from Ina Garten tastes as rich and chocolaty as a brownie.

This old-fashioned vanilla butter cake drenched in syrup is the 1963 winner of the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest.