French cake recipes
17 recipes

Basque cake, a southwestern french dessert
Dessert Difficult 1 h 40 m 686 kcal
Ingredients: For the pastry : 2.5 cups flour 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup softened butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla extract For the pastry...

French amandier cake, the super soft almond cake
Dessert Very Easy 35 min 440 kcal
Ingredients: 3 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1.5 cups almond meal 1 tsp almond extract 1/3 cup melted butter 1/3 cup almond flakes

French yogurt cake - video recipe !
Dessert Very Easy 15 min 40 min
Ingredients: 1 yogurt pot 3 sugar pots 4 flour pots 1 oil pot 2 tsp baking powder 1 pinch of salt 3 eggs 2 tsp vanilla sugar

French almond cake
Dessert Easy 25 min 35 min
Ingredients: Ingredients : (makes one 7" or 8" cake pan) 110g unsalted butter, cut into small cubes and leave to soften 120g caster sugar 3 large eggs, lightly...

French four spice cake with browned butter spice frosting
Dessert Very Easy 20 min 45 min
Ingredients: Cake: ½ cup butter, softened 1 cup packed brown sugar Zest of ½ orange 2 large eggs 11/3 cups flour 2 tablespoons . unsweetened cocoa 2 teaspoons....

Gâteau au yaourt à la framboise (french yogurt cake with raspberries)
Dessert Very Easy 45 min 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup unbleached granulated sugar 2 tsp lemon zest 1/2 cup plain, fat-free yogurt 3 eggs 1/4 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil 1...

French perigordine walnut cake
Dessert Very Easy 1 h 15 m 498 kcal
Ingredients: 250g shelled walnuts 120g unsalted butter 250g brown sugar 4 eggs 1 tablespoon icing sugar

French chocolate hazelnut cake
Dessert Very Easy 15 min 40 min
Ingredients: 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTL® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, divided 3/4 cup granulated sugar 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened 1...

French chocolate cake
Dessert Very Easy 45 min 995 kcal
Ingredients: 2 cups flour 1/2 cup cocoa 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sour cream 3/4 cup water 1 teaspoon...

French silk chocolate cake
Dessert Easy 35 min 40 min
Ingredients: The cake base : 80 g sifted self-raising flour 30 g cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 large egg seperated 120 g caster...

Meringue cake
Dessert Very Easy 40 min 460 kcal
Ingredients: 2 egg yolks 1/2 C milk 2 Tbs butter 3/4 C sugar 1 C flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 egg whites 1 1/2 C brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla

Rhubarb friands
Other Very Easy 15 min 20 min
Ingredients: 200 g Rhubarb 2 tablespoons Icing Sugar For the Friands: 100 g Butter 140 g Icing Sugar 25 g Plain Flour 85 g Ground Almonds 3 Egg Whites

Strawberry & pistachio financiers
Appetizer Very Easy 15 min 20 min
Ingredients: Almond powder, 50g Pistachios (ground), 100g Butter, 75g Icing sugar, 80g Flour, 30g Egg white, 3 Strawberries, 20

Lemon rum madeleines
Other Very Easy 15 min 8 min
Ingredients: 2/3 cup flour 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon rum extract 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 1 cup...

Gateau Breton - A French Pound Cake, Shortbread, Pastry-like Treat
It's been crazy for the past few months since I've taken on some extra responsibilities that have proven to be much more time consuming than I had anticipated. Things will eventually settle down again, but for now the workload has kept me from being able

French Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake
Inspiration from 'Flour', a fun read for lovers of home baking, by Joanne Chang, the owner and pastry chef at Flour Bakery Cafe in Boston. It's been a few years since I made a lemon poppy seed cake and my stash of Meyer lemons was calling out to me,

Faluche Du Nord ~ French Bread
For this month's Home Baker's Challenge, Priya of Priya's Versatile Recipes has suggested some beautiful French Bake recipes. Out of them I chose to make this simple and easy bread Faluche. Faluche is a traditional pale white bread from the Northern re