Pie may be an essential holiday dessert, but the right cake can easily steal the spotlight. Luckily, there’s a cake for every holiday occasion — from light and fluffy to dense and rich. Whether you’re in charge of a dessert for a holiday potluck, Christmas brunch or dinner party, here are a few recipes to help you bring the sweets nobody can stop talking about.
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Yule Log Cake
Tap into your inner pastry chef and wow your guests with a classic showstopper: the Yule log. Also called Bûche de Noël, this traditional jelly roll–style cake is a fun dessert to make that's festive for any holiday occasion.
Olive Oil Cake
If you’re new to olive oil cakes, be prepared to fall in love. Ultra-moist, tender and flavorful, they’re a breeze to make, travel well, and are versatile enough for holiday brunches, potlucks or dinner. The biggest challenge will be deciding between serving it with a simple dusting of powdered sugar or fresh fruit and whipped cream.
Upside-Down Cake
Literally baked upside-down in a pan to create a caramelized, deeply flavorful top, upside-down cakes make an easy, wow-worthy dessert. Our rich and festive version — chock-full of seasonal superstars like apples, pears and dried cranberries — can be made one or two days in advance.
Bundt Cake
This rich, tender cake gets its distinctive shape from the vessel in which it’s baked — a Bundt pan. Our version, which is decked out with festive sugared cranberries and a simple glaze, makes an excellent centerpiece dessert for your holiday table.
Gluten-Free Cake
Gluten-free baking can be a little tricky, since alternative flours and sweeteners tend to behave differently. Step one — find a great gluten-free cake recipe (such as our Double Chocolate Cake) and stick to it. Packed with decadent flavor from baking chocolate and cocoa powder, our festive cake also packs dates and applesauce for sweetness.
No-Bake Cheesecake
Save precious oven space by whipping up a no-bake cheesecake. Easy and fun to make, this is also a great recipe to make with your kids. You’ll both love making it almost as much as you will love digging into the final product — a luscious, tangy and mildly sweet cake with a buttery graham cracker crust and spiced pumpkin filling.
The Easiest Cake of All Time
Aka the cake you don’t have to make. Reserve one of our decked-out holiday cakes, such as our luscious Gâteau Basque cake, for pickup from your local Whole Foods Market store. All of our baked good contain unbleached, unbromated flour, cage-free or better eggs, and no hydrogenated fats or high-fructose corn syrup.
Need to stock up on 365 by Whole Foods Market baking ingredients like organic all-purpose flour, cane sugar and semi-sweet chocolate baking chips? You can shop holiday essentials for pickup or delivery* opens in a new tab or visit your nearest store to start shopping.
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