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.

Loved by kids and adults alike, this old-fashioned gingerbread is the perfect treat to keep on hand during the cooler months.

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.