List of cakes facts for kids

The following is a list of types of dessert cakes by country of origin and distinctive ingredients. The majority of the cakes contain some kind of flour, egg, and sugar, and these ingredients are not listed.

Cakes

Name	Picture	Origin	Distinctive ingredients and description
Angel cake		United Kingdom	Sponge cake, cream, food colouring
Angel food cake		United States	Egg whites, vanilla, and cream of tartar
Apple cake		Germany	Apple, caramel icing
Applesauce cake		Early colonial times in the New England Colonies of the Northeastern United States	Prepared using apple sauce, flour and sugar as primary ingredients
Aranygaluska		Hungary Romania	A cake with yeasty dough and vanilla custard
Avocado cake			Prepared using avocado as a primary ingredient
Babka		Poland	Easter cake with icing
Ballokume		Albania	Corn flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla
Banana cake			Prepared using banana as a primary ingredient
Basbousa		Egypt	A traditional Egyptian sweet cake that is made of cooked semolina or farina soaked in simple syrup. Coconut is a popular addition. The syrup may also optionally contain orange flower water or rose water.
Batik cake		Malaysia	A non-baked cake dessert made by mixing broken Marie biscuits, combined with a chocolate sauce or runny custard.
Baumkuchen		Germany	A German variety of spit cake also popular in Japan. The characteristic rings, which resemble tree rings when sliced, give the cake its German name.
Bebinca		India	Flour, sugar, ghee (clarified butter), coconut milk, egg yolk
Beer cake			Cake prepared with beer as a main ingredient. Pictured is a chocolate bundt cake infused with stout beer.
Boston cream pie		United States	Egg custard, chocolate
Banana cake/bread		United States	Banana, sometimes nuts and chocolate
Banoffee pie		United Kingdom	Bananas, toffee, biscuits
Bara brith		United Kingdom (Wales)	Raisins, currants and candied peel
Battenberg cake		United Kingdom	Marzipan and apricot jam
Baumkuchen		Germany	A kind of layered cake and a traditional dessert that is known in many countries throughout Europe and it is also a popular snack and dessert in Japan. The characteristic rings that appear when sliced resemble tree rings, and give the cake its German name, Baumkuchen, which literally translates to "tree cake".
Bibingka		Philippines	Coconut milk and rice flour
Bienenstich (Bee Sting)		Germany	Almonds, honey, custard cream
Birthday cake		Unknown	A cake that has various ingredients, usually chocolate or sponge, and is often topped with icing and candles; the number of candles on top of the cake is often said to represent someone's age - for example, a birthday cake for a nine-year-old will have nine candles on top of it.
Bizcocho Dominicano		Dominican Republic	A cake with a moist and airy texture and meringue frosting
Black Forest cake, often known as "Black Forest gâteau" or "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte"		Germany	Cherries, kirsch, and chocolate
Blackout cake, sometimes known as "Brooklyn Blackout cake"		Brooklyn, United States	Chocolate pudding, chocolate layers, chocolate cake crumbs
Blitztorte		Germany	A "lightning cake" or "quick cake". Lemon zest and lemon juice add flavor to a blitztorte, which is a butter cake (butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and baking powder). It is called a blitztorte because it is quick to make. Also spelled as "blitz torte".
Blondie		United States	A rich, sweet dessert bar. It is made from flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder, and vanilla, and may also contain walnuts or pecans. It may contain white or dark chocolate chips and it can have a taste reminiscent of butterscotch.
Bolo de mel		Madeira Islands	Sweet, heavy cake made with molasses or honey, often with walnuts and almonds. Literally means "honey cake".
Brazil nut cake			Prepared using Brazil nuts as a primary ingredient, they are common in the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
Brazo de Mercedes		Philippines	A traditional Filipino meringue roll with a custard filling typically dusted with powdered sugar.
Butterkuchen		Germany	A simple buttery and sweet German cake baked on a tray
Brownie		United States, Canada	A flat, baked square or bar developed in the United States at the end of the 19th century and popularized in both the US and Canada during the first half of the 20th century.
Buccellato		Sicily	Honey, marsala wine, aniseed, and raisins
Budapestlängd		Sweden	Rolled meringue-hazelnut cake filled with whipped cream and pieces of canned peach, apricot, or mandarin orange.
Bundt cake		United States	A cake that is baked in a Bundt pan, shaping it into a distinctive ring shape. The shape is inspired by a traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf, but Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe, but they are often made with chocolate.
Butter cake		United Kingdom	Butter
Butterfly cake		United Kingdom	A variant of cupcake, also called "fairy cake" for its fairy-like "wings". They can be made from any flavor of cake. The top of the fairy cake is cut off or carved out with a spoon, and cut in half. Then, butter cream, whipped cream, or other sweet filling like jam is spread into the hole. Finally, the two cut halves are stuck into the butter cream to look like butterfly wings. The wings of the cake are often decorated using icing to form various patterns.
Cassata		Italy (Sicily)	Cassata consists of round sponge cake moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta cheese, candied peel, and a chocolate or vanilla filling similar to cannoli cream. It is covered with a shell of marzipan, pink and green pastel colored icing, and decorative designs. The cassata is topped with candied fruit depicting cherries and slices of citrus fruit characteristic of Sicily.
Cassava Cake		Philippines	A Filipino dessert make of grated yucca and egg
Carrot cake		United Kingdom	Moist, dense, sweet cake made with carrots
Caterpillar cake		United Kingdom	Chocolate Swiss roll with sugar coated chocolate beans, loved by the British population
Charlotte (cake)		France	Bread, sponge cake or biscuits; fruit puree or custard
Cheesecake		Ancient Greece	Thin base made from crushed biscuits, with a thicker top layer of soft cheese, eggs and sugar. It can be baked or unbaked (in which case it is refrigerated.)
Chenna poda		India (Orissa)	A cake made from milk solids and semolina. Milk solids are the main ingredient and is known as "chhena". This cake is a specialty of the state of Orissa in India chhena cardamom ghee cashewnut
Chestnut cake			Prepared using chestnuts or water chestnuts as a main ingredient. It is a dish in Chinese cuisine.
Chiffon cake		United States	Light, airy cake made with vegetable oil, eggs, sugar, flour
Chocolate cake		Unknown	Chocolate
Chocolate Lime cake		Unknown	Primary ingredients: lime juice, lime slices, green coloring, chocolate syrup
Christmas cake		United Kingdom	Dried fruit such as sultanas or raisins; cinnamon, treacle, cherries, and almond; is quite often topped with icing. If topped with icing, the icing may be decorated with decorations, such as models of Santa Claus, or may have labels such as "Happy Christmas".
Clementine cake			A cake prepared with clementine as a primary ingredient
Coconut cake		United States	A popular dessert in the Southern region of the United States. It is a cake frosted with a white frosting and covered in coconut flakes.
Coffee cake		Germany	Cinnamon
Crema de fruta		Philippines	A traditional Filipino fruitcake made with layers of sponge cake, sweet custard or whipped cream, gelatin or gulaman (agar), and various preserved or fresh fruits, including mangoes, pineapples, cherries, and strawberries.
Cremeschnitte		Slovenia Croatia Germany	A vanilla and custard cream cake dessert popular in several central-European countries. There are many regional variations, but they all include puff pastry base and custard cream.
Croquembouche		France	Caramel, almond, and chocolate
Crystal cake		China	One of the traditional desserts in China, it has more than 800 years of history. It was first invented in Xiagui during the Song Dynasty, then it spread far and wide. It was called "crystal cake" because its filling shines brightly, and its appearance is glittering and translucent, like a crystal.
Cuatro leches cake		Spain Mexico	Cake made with four milks and it is similar to the tres leches cake.
Cucumber cake			A cake prepared with cucumber as a primary ingredient. It is a dish in Goan cuisine.
Cupcake		Unknown	A small cake with various ingredients, usually topped with icing
Dacquoise		France	Almonds, hazelnut, and chocolate
Date and walnut loaf		United Kingdom	Dates, walnuts, treacle, and tea
Date square		Canada (probably)	Also known as "matrimonial cake", a layer of minced dates with oat crumble
Depression cake		United States	Made without milk, sugar, butter, or eggs
Devil's food cake		United States	Chocolate or cocoa, and baking soda
Dobos cake		Hungary	A sponge cake that is layered with chocolate butter cream and topped with thin caramel slices
Dundee cake		United Kingdom (Scotland)	Fruit cake with almonds on it but without glacé cherries
Dutch carnival cake		Netherlands	A traditional a Dutch delicacy that is similar to gingerbread cake
Eccles cake		United Kingdom	Zante currants
Eierschecke		Saxony and Thuringia (Germany)	A sheet cake made of yeast dough topped with apple, quark (curd) and poppy seeds and parts of it are covered with a glaze made of cream, whole egg, sugar and flour for thickening.
Esterházy torte		Hungary Austria	A Hungarian cake (torta) named after Prince Paul III Anton Esterházy de Galántha (1786–1866). It was invented by Budapest confectioners in the late 19th century. It consists of cognac or vanilla buttercream, sandwiched between layers of almond meringue (macaroon) dough. The torte is iced with a fondant glaze and decorated with a characteristic chocolate striped pattern.
Fat rascal		United Kingdom	Dried fruit, peel, oats
Faworki		Poland	Sweet crisp cake in shape of a bow
Fig cake		Egypt	Prepared with fig as a primary ingredient
Financier		France	A small cake, the financier is light and moist, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. The distinctive feature of the recipe is beurre noisette (brown butter). Other ingredients include egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. They are baked in shaped molds, usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. In terms of texture, it is springy with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior.
Flourless chocolate cake		Unknown	Chocolate
Fondant Fancy		United Kingdom	Icing (in any of a number of colors), cream
Fragelité		Denmark	Meringue, almonds, butter, coffee
Frankfurter Kranz (Frankfurt Crown Cake)		Germany	Sponge cake, buttercream icing, red jam (typically strawberry, blackcurrant or cherry jam); brittle nuts, toasted almondflakes and/or ground hazelnuts
Frog cake		Australia	Cream, icing
Fruitcake		Ancient Rome	Candied fruit; many versions of the fruit cake contain currants, sultanas, and glacé cherries
Funing big cake		China (Funing County, Jiangsu province)	Sticky rice, white sugar, and refined lard. Due to health concerns associated with lard consumption, sometimes vegetable oil is used instead of lard.
Funnel cake		United States	Choux pastry with powdered sugar or other toppings, usually fruit
Gâteau nantais		Nantes	Pound cake with almonds and rum.
Garash cake		Bulgaria	Walnuts, egg whites, crystal or powdered sugar
Genoa cake		Italy (Genoa, probably)	Sultanas, raisins, glacé cherries
Genoise (Genoese cake)		Italy (Genoa, probably)	Whole egg
German Chocolate Cake		United States	Chocolate cake with coconut-pecan frosting
Gingerbread		United Kingdom (probably)	Ginger
Gooey butter cake		United States	Butter
Goose breast (Gåsebryst)		Denmark	A cream cake known as Gåsebryst in Denmark. A Danish pastry bottom, topped with whipped cream, custard and jam, wrapped in marzipan.
Ghevar		India	Flour, ghee, kewra, milk, clarified butter, sugar, almonds, pistachio, saffron, green cardamom etc.
Halloween cake			A cake prepared with Halloween-themed decorations
Hash brownies		Netherlands Belgium
Hedgehog Slice			It contains crushed biscuit, or rice puffs. It has totally different names in each language.
Hevva cake		Cornwall, England	It's also called heavy cake
Hot milk cake		United States (probably)	Milk, and mocha
Hummingbird cake		Jamaica	Banana, pineapple, pecan, vanilla, spice
Ice cream cake		Unknown	Ice cream
Jaffa Cakes		United Kingdom	A biscuit-sized cake introduced by MacVitie and Price in 1927, and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common forms of Jaffa Cakes are circular, 2.5 inches (64 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a Genoise sponge base, a layer of orange flavored jelly, and a coating of chocolate.
Joffre cake		Romania	Chocolate ganache cake
Kabuni		Albania	Rice, butter, mutton broth, raisins, sugar, cinnamon, cloves
Karpatka		Poland	Two to eight layers of very flattened sweet bake pastry with cream and sweet cheese, normally served with fruit and budyn and cardamom and ice cream which may have alcohol also on the side of this luxurious dessert
Kiev cake		Ukraine	Two airy layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling
King cake		France Spain	Sugar, cinnamon, milk, and butter
Khanom bodin		Thailand	Wheat flour (or Maida flour), fresh butter, fresh milk, chicken eggs, sweetened condensed milk, white sugar, raisins, dried sweet gourds
Khanom farang kudi chin		Thailand	Duck egg, wheat flour, white sugar, raisins, dried sweet gourds
Kladdkaka		Sweden	Chocolate
Kliņģeris		Latvia	Yeast, raisins, spices
Kołacz		Poland	Sweet cheese and cream
Kolaczki		Poland	Butter, sugar, jam, egg whites, different sweet sugar powder
Kouign-amann		France (Brittany)	Butter
Kransekake		Denmark Norway	Almonds, sugar, egg whites
Krantz cake		Israel (ashkenazi food)	Chocolate or poppy seeds filling.
Kremówka		Germany, Slovakia	A Polish type of cream pie. It is made of two layers of puff pastry, filled with whipped cream, creamy buttercream, vanilla pastry cream (custard cream) or sometimes egg white cream, and is usually sprinkled with powdered sugar. It also can be decorated with cream or covered with a layer of icing.
Krówka		Poland	Chocolate, sponge base, caramel and coconut
Kue cubit		Indonesia	A small cake eaten as a snack.
Kutia		Poland Belarus Ukraine Lithuania Russia	Various nuts and raisins
Lady Baltimore cake		Southern United States (its exact origins are disputed)	Dried fruit, nuts, frosting
Lamington		Australia	Chocolate icing, and desiccated coconut
Lane cake		Southeastern USA	Candied fruit, sponge cake, pecans, coconut, bourbon, vanilla buttercream
Layer cake		Unknown	Egg yolk, sugar, butter, flour
Lemon cake		Unknown	Cake with a lemon flavor
Madeira cake		United Kingdom	Butter and sugar, usually flavored with lemon. Sometimes confused with Bolo de mel cakes, which are actually made in Madeira using a completely different recipe.
Makowiec		Poland	Poppy seed cake, normally decorated with icing and orange
Magdalena		Spain	Eggs, granulated sugar, vegetable oil (usually olive oil), unbleached white flour, lemon zest, baking powder and milk. Spanish version of muffins or cupcakes (but always without topping).
Mantecada		Spain	Eggs, flour, sugar and butter (cow fat in the Mantecadas de Astorga; corn flour in Colombia)
Marble cake		Denmark	Vanilla, coffee, or chocolate
Marjolaine		France	Meringue, praline, and chocolate. Created by Fernand Point
Mazurek		Poland	Easter cake with a type of shortcrust tart and topping
Medovik		Russia	A layer cake popular in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union
Merveilleux		Belgium	Two light meringues welded and covered with whipped cream and dusted with chocolate shavings.
Mille-feuille		France	Also known as a Napoleon, is three layers of puff pastry alternating with two layers of pastry cream. The top is glazed in white (icing) and brown (chocolate) strips, and combed into a distinctive pattern.
Misérable cake		Belgium	A type of almond sponge cake that is a traditional Belgian recipe
Molten chocolate cake		France/United States	Also known as lava cake is a popular dessert that combines the elements of a flourless chocolate cake (sometimes called a "chocolate decadence" cake) and a soufflé. Some other names used are "chocolate fondant", "chocolate moelleux", and "chocolate lava" cake.
Mooncake		China	A Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhongqiujie)
Moravian sugar cake		Pennsylvania German Country /United States	A sweet coffee cake that originated in the colonial Moravian Church. It is made with a sweet yeast dough enriched with mashed potatoes and topped with a mixture of melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
Muffin		Unknown	An individual-sized quick bread product which can be sweet or savory. The typical American "muffin" is similar to a cupcake in size and cooking methods. These can come in both savory varieties, such as corn or cheese muffins, or sweet varieties such as blueberry or banana. It also refers to a flatter disk-shaped bread of English origin, commonly referred to as an "English muffin" outside the United Kingdom. These muffins are also popular in Commonwealth countries and the United States.
Napoleonshat		Denmark	A marzipan based cake, shaped like a Napoleon's Hat and dipped in dark chocolate
Napeleonskake		Norway Denmark Iceland	A cake that is similar to tompouce, but it has different flavors like caramel or carob
Onion cake			A savory or sweet cake prepared with onion as a primary ingredient
Oponki or Pączki		Poland	Round spongy yeast cake with sweet topping and other chocolate
Opera cake		France	Ganache, sponge cake, and coffee syrup
Orange and polenta cake		Italy	Oranges and polenta
Ostkaka		Sweden	Also called Swedish cheesecake
Othellolagkage		Denmark	A layer cake with sponge cake, cream, chocolate, raspberry, egg, vanilla, marzipan,
Pan di Spagna		Italy	A sponge cake. Italian Jewish families make a traditional version for a Passover.
Pancake			Flat, round cake, made with eggs, milk, and plain flour
Panpepato		Italy	Various nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts
Panettone		Italy	Raisins, orange peel, and lemon peel
Paris–Brest		France	Choux pastry and praline flavoured cream
Parkin		United Kingdom	Treacle and oats
Pavlova		Australia New Zealand	Egg white and sugar (meringue); named after Anna Pavlova
Petit Gâteau		France	Chocolate and served with ice cream
Petits fours		France	Butter cream
Piernik		Poland	Gingerbread with cinnamon, ginger, cloves and cardamom
Pineapple Cheesecake			A no bake cheesecake with pineapple either as main filling or as topping.
Plum cake		United Kingdom (England)	Referred to fruitcake prepared with dried plum and spices in England since around 1700. Today it refers to a cake prepared with dried fruits such as raisins as the primary ingredients.
Pound cake		United Kingdom	Butter, sugar, eggs, flour
Princess cake		Sweden	Alternating layers of sponge cake and whipped cream, a layer of berry jam and a layer of custard, all topped with a layer of (green) marzipan.
Prinzregententorte		Germany	Sponge cake, buttercream, and dark chocolate glaze
Pumpkin bread		United States	Pumpkin, sometimes chocolate
Punschkrapfen		Austria	Cake crumbs, nougat chocolate, apricot jam, and rum
Puto		Philippines
Queen cake		United Kingdom	A soft, muffin-sized cake, popular from early 18th century, and containing currants and flavored with mace and orange, or lemon water.
Queen Elizabeth cake		Canada	Coconut, dates
Rainy Fruit Cake		Unknown	Unlike the original fruit cake log, this fruit cake is packed with passion fruit, then the top is drizzled with a brown sugar sauce that is also filled with caramelized passion fruit.
Raisin cake			Cake prepared with raisins as a primary ingredient
Red bean cake		Japan China	Azuki bean and red bean paste
Red velvet cake		United States	Red coloring and cocoa
Rock cake		United Kingdom	Currants, candied peel, mixed spice
Rum cake		Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago	Rum, dried fruit
Rum baba		France, Italy	Rum, yeast, whipped cream
Ruske kape		Bosnia Serbia	Chocolate and coconut
Sachertorte		Austria	Apricot and cream
Šakotis		Lithuania Poland	Traditional cake created by painting layers of dough onto a rotating spit while being baked
Salzburger Nockerl		Austria	Egg yolk, flour and milk
Sans rival		Philippines	layers of buttercream, meringue and chopped cashews
Santiago cake		Spain (Galicia)	Topping with a Santiago Cross design
Sekacz		Poland	Sponge cake with chocolate
Sernik		Poland	Cream cheese, sponge cake, raisins and different spices
Sesame seed cake		Unknown	Sesame seeds, often with honey as a sweetener
Sfouf		Lebanon	Almonds and semolina
Sheet cake			A cake baked in a large, flat rectangular pan such as a sheet pan or a jelly roll pan
Simnel cake		United Kingdom	Marzipan and dried fruit
Smith Island Cake		United States	condensed milk, vanilla chocolate creme, dark chocolate icing
Smörgåstårta		Sweden Estonia Finland	A cake that literally means "sandwich-cake" or "sandwich gateau", it is a Scandinavian cuisine dish that is popular in Sweden, Estonia (as võileivatort), and Finland (as voileipäkakku). This savory cake has ingredients similar to a sandwich, but has such a large amount of filling that it more resembles a layered cream cake with garnished top.
Snowball cake		United States	Marshmallow and coconut frosting
Snow skin mooncake		Hong Kong	A Chinese food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a non-baked mooncake which originated in Hong Kong. The snow skin mooncake was developed by a bakery in Hong Kong, because the traditional mooncakes were made with salted duck egg yolks and lotus seed paste, resulting in very high sugar and oil content. It is also known as "snowy mooncake", "icy mooncake", and "crystal mooncake".
Soufflé		France	Cream sauce or purée with beaten egg whites
Spekkoek		Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)	Multi-layered, containing cinnamon, clove, mace, and anise
Spice cake		North America	Spices such as cinnamon, cloves, allspice, ginger, or mace
Spit cake		Ancient Greece	A term for hollow, cylindrical cakes prepared on a rotating spit in several European countries
Sponge cake		United Kingdom	Flour, sugar, and eggs
St. Honoré cake		France	Caramel and Chiboust cream
Stack cake		United States	A cake that replaces a wedding cake
Strawberry cake			A cake that uses strawberry as a primary ingredient
Streuselkuchen		Germany	Streusel (butter, flour, and sugar)
Suncake		Taiwan	A popular Taiwanese dessert originally from the city of Taichung in Taiwan. The typical fillings consist of maltose (condensed malt sugar), and they are usually sold in special gift boxes as souvenirs for visitors.
Swiss roll		United Kingdom	Jam and creamy filling; may come in different colors. Developed in the UK, and not Switzerland as the name implies.
Tarte Tatin		France	Varies, commonly apple or pear
Tea loaf		United Kingdom	Currants, sultanas, and tea
Teacake		United Kingdom	Currants and sultanas
Three chocolates cake		Spain	A cake made with three different types of chocolate: white chocolate, milked chocolate, and black chocolate
Tiramisu		Italy	Savoiardi and espresso
Tocino de cielo		Spain	Made primarily with egg yolks and syrup, prepared in a water bath. It is usually presented in a cylindrical shape or a rectangle, depending on the mold. It can often be served at room temperature.
Tompouce		Netherlands	Cream, icing
Torta alla Monferrina		Monferrato, Italy	An autumn speciality of the Monferrato hills in north-west Italy, is a cake made from pumpkin, apples and sugar, with dried figs, amaretti, chocolate, eggs, and rum, and baked in the oven.
Torta Tre Monti		Italy (San Marino)	Hazelnuts
Tres leches cake		Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Sponge cake soaked with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream or sour cream
Tunis cake		Scotland Northern Ireland	Chocolate and marzipan
Træstammer		Denmark	Literally "wooden-logs". Trøffelmasse (crumbled cakes, cocoa-powder, sugar, butter, rum), marzipan and chocolate Sweden has a similar cake known as Punsch-rolls.
Ul boov		Mongolia	A cake made with sheep fat
Ube cake		Philippines	A traditional Filipino chiffon cake or sponge cake made with ube halaya (mashed purple yam).
Upside-down cake		United Kingdom	A cake that is flipped upside-down before serving. Usually made with fruit, particularly pineapple.
Victoria sponge cake		United Kingdom	A cake that was named after Queen Victoria, who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. It is often referred to simply as "sponge cake", though it contains additional fat. A typical Victoria sponge consists of raspberry jam and whipped double cream or vanilla cream. The jam and cream are sandwiched between two sponge cakes; the top of the cake is not iced or decorated apart from a dusting of icing sugar. The Women's Institute publishes a variation on the Victoria sandwich that has raspberry jam as the filling and is dusted with caster sugar, not icing sugar.
Vínarterta		Iceland	A multi-layered cake made from dough and plum jam
Wedding cake		Unknown	A traditional cake that is served at wedding receptions following dinner. In the UK, the wedding cake is served at a wedding breakfast, a shared meal held after the ceremony (not necessarily in the morning). In modern Western culture, the cake is usually on display and served to guests at the reception.
Welsh cake		United Kingdom (Wales)	Currants
Whoopie pies		United States	Cocoa, vanilla
Wine cake		Colombia	Wine
Yule log		France	Traditional dessert served near Christmas
Zuger Kirschtorte		Switzerland	Nut-meringue, sponge cake and butter cream and is flavoured with cherry brandy kirschwasser.
Zuppa Inglese		Italy	Sponge cake or savoiardi, Alchermes, custard