Winter is for cakes, cookies, chocolates, and snow. Nights are cold and long in the winter season. This winter make a tasty dessert for yourself and your loved ones, comfortably sitting on your couch at home. When the weather is cold and snowing outside, it is the perfect time to pop the kettle on and sit on the sofa with a delicious spongy cake. On this list of 20 fantastic winter cake recipes, you will find melted chocolate cake, spicy gingerbread, savory orange cake, cheesecake, and even a carrot-flavored cake. All these winter cake recipes contain seasonal fruit, melted chocolate, and seasonal vegetables with warming spices.
1.Beetroot Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe
Chocolate and beetroot are bedfellows in winter. In a mixing bowl, mix the eggs, brown sugar, melted dark chocolate, flour, cocoa powder, grated beet, maple syrup, and honey. Bake until it is fluffy. Beets make the cake super moist and garnish the cake with chocolate chips. It is a perfect dessert for winter breakfast or any dinner party.
2.Orange Cake Recipe
You can eat this delicious orange cake for dessert or breakfast. In a large mixing bowl, mix sugar, eggs, canola oil, almond milk, flour, orange juice, baking powder, vanilla, and salt, then blend it. Bake it for about 25-30 minutes until it is fluffy. During cooling, make the orange curd and put it in the middle of the cake. This orange slice cake is very lightweight and has a savory texture because of brown sugar and syrups.
3.One-Bowl Chocolate Cake Recipe
It is the quickest, softest, eggless chocolate cake recipe. It is perfect for cozy winter days. Unlike most chocolate cake recipes, you can start with the dry fruit first, then sift it into a large bowl to evenly stir the cocoa powder, yogurt, baking powder, baking soda, and a pinch of salt into the flour and granulated sugar.
4.Hot Chocolate Cake Recipe
Hot chocolate cake is rich, decadent, and perfect for the winter. Add milk, melted butter, Milkmaid, flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and spices into a large bowl, and mix it. After baking, soak it with a cup of hot chocolate for a dense flavor.
5.Italian Pear Almond Cake Recipe
This recipe came from Europe. The Italian Pear Almond Cake recipe has pear fruit and nuts without frosting. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Add melted butter, baking powder, baking soda, pear, eggs, flour, lemon juice, and salt into a bowl and whisk it. Bake it for 1 hour, and sprinkle sugar and chopped almonds on top.
6.Gingerbread Cake Recipe With Cheese Frosting
Gingerbread cake is ideal for Christmas dinner and winter holidays. It is easy, fluffy, densely flavored, and wonderfully spicy with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. The crumb is super airy and dark because of the whipped cream on the top.
7.Cheese Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
Cheese coffee cake is an ideal treat to try this winter season with mid-morning tea. Thick Cream Cheese Coffee Cake is made with almond flour, has a layer of coffee, and is topped with a crunchy Cinnamon powder with whipped cream and strawberry.
8.Toffee Apple And Cinnamon Sponge Cake Recipe
Toffee apple and cinnamon sponge cake is a two-layer cake with caramelized apple cinnamon sponges, buttercream frost mixed with toffee sauce, fudge chunks, and whipped cream for decoration. It is a showstopper cake for any celebration.
9.Carrot Cake Recipe
Carrots have a natural sweetness. This easy-to-make carrot cake recipe is gluten-free, with pineapple, or walnuts free. It is made from scratch, and super delicious. It is a single-layer cake with cheese cream frosting.
10.Easy Banana Muffins Recipe
These banana muffins are moist, buttery, and spiced with cinnamon powder. You will need ripe bananas and vanilla extract, salt, milk, cinnamon, and nutmeg for flavor, and chocolate chips for decoration. It is an easy, kid-friendly recipe.
11.Nutella Crinkle Cookies Recipe
Chocolatey and filled with chopped hazelnuts, these cookies are chewy and soft-baked, stuffed with Nutella in the middle, and rolled in brown sugar. Nutella gives the chocolaty flavor. Crunchy hazelnuts add texture. It tastes like a Ferrero Rocher cookie.
12.Eggless Vanilla Cake Recipe
This vanilla cake is eggless and a delicious recipe for the kids. It is a very easy-to-make creamy cake with a nice vanilla flavor and without any baking soda or baking powder.
13.Fruit Ice-cream Cake Recipe
If you are an ice cream lover, then this cake is a must-try on a cold night. The summery dessert combines both fruit cake and ice cream. The recipe has three different types of fruits, and essential ingredients: milk, yogurt, baking soda, flour, baking powder, sugar, and oil.
14.Black Forest Cake Recipe
The Black Forest Cake is an all-time favorite recipe for any time celebrations and Christmas winter. This soft, moist black forest cake is made of layers of moist chocolate cake, MILKMAID, and cherries, and has a filling of whipped cream.
15.Apple Pie Recipe
Apple Pie is a classic American favorite dessert during Christmas and winter seasons. The sweet aroma of cinnamon, with the fragrance of baked apples, creates a holiday warmth, and MILKMAID adds creaminess to the filling, enhancing the dessert flavor and texture. When you bite into the flaky crust, the burst of sweetness, fluffy from the inside, and creamy filling increase the taste of the Apple Pie.
16.Jaffa Cake Recipe
Jaffa Cake is a cake covered with chocolate. This delicious circular cake takes Jaffa oranges as an inspiration to make an orange chocolatey texture with crunchy crushed Jaffa ganache.
17.Custard Cake Recipe
Whether you are celebrating any occasion or have a craving for small snacks, then this cake is perfect for you. The baked custard cake recipe has custard powder, glucose syrup, blueberries, Egg, Wheat Flour, Sugar, and Milk Powder.
18.Parsnip And Orange Spiced Cake Recipe
Nadiya Hussain created this tasty gluten-free winter cake with a spicy warmth and zesty oranges. Parsnip and orange spiced cake is made with cinnamon, crushed nutmeg, and orange, and topped with cashews.
19.Gluten-free Earl Grey Fruit Loaf Recipe
This vegan and gluten-free Earl Grey Earl fruit cake is lightly sweet and delicious for winter nights. It is a buttery cake loaf infused with Earl Grey tea with a hint of cardamom, and orange icing. It is a vegan, low-fat, and last-minute delicious Christmas dessert recipe.
20.Clementine Cake Recipe
The clementine cake has whole clementine, flour, satsuma oranges, semolina, butter, and almonds. It is a naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, and easy-to-make recipe. Clementine is a winter treat, you can enjoy for the winter period.