Cakes & Holiday Cakes

From an easy one-bowl chocolate cake to holiday showpieces, these recipes walk you through each step with timings and make-ahead notes. For Christmas, try a rich alcohol-free fruit cake or a rolled yule log.

• One-Bowl Chocolate Cake With Easy Chocolate Frosting

  A moist, deeply chocolate one-bowl cake made with oil and hot coffee or water. Bake it as a sheet cake or layers, plus a simple chocolate buttercream.

• Yule Log Cake Decorations: 15 Ideas (Meringue Mushrooms, Bark and More)

  Yule log cake decorations: how to make frosting look like bark, 15 easy ideas including meringue mushrooms, sugared cranberries and chocolate twigs, and a.

• Yule Log Cake Recipe (Easy Bûche de Noël)

  This yule log cake recipe rolls without cracking: chocolate sponge, whipped ganache filling, bark frosting and festive decorations. Step-by-step photos.