| Name | Picture | Origin | Distinctive ingredients and description |
| Amandine | | Romania | A chocolate layered cake filled with chocolate, caramel and fondant cream. |
| Amygdalopita | | Greece | An almond cake made with ground almonds, flour, butter, egg and pastry cream. |
| Angel cake | | United Kingdom | A type of layered sponge cake, often garnished with cream and food coloring. |
| Angel food cake | | United States | A type of sponge cake made with egg whites, sugar, flour, vanilla, and a whipping agent such as cream of tartar. |
| Apple cake | | Germany Ireland Poland United Kingdom | A cake featuring apples, occasionally topped with caramel icing. |
| Applesauce cake | | United States | A cake that is prepared using applesauce, flour, and sugar as primary ingredients. |
| Babka | | Poland and Ukraine | A sweet braided cake originating in the Jewish community. |
| Babka Wielkanocna | | Poland | An Easter cake with icing. |
| Ballokume | | Albania | A cake made with corn flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla. |
| Banana bread | | United States | A sweet bread made with bananas, sometimes with the addition of nuts or chocolate. |
| Banana cake | | United States | A cake featuring banana as a primary ingredient. |
| Bánh bò | | Vietnam | A spongey cake with honeycomb-like structures, typically made with coconut milk, rice flour, water and sugar. |
| Bara brith | | Wales | A Welsh tea bread flavored with raisins, currants and candied peel. |
| 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 contain orange flower water or rose water. |
| Battenberg cake | | United Kingdom | A sponge cake held together by jam and covered in marzipan. |
| 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, which literally translates to "tree cake". |
| Beer cake | | Ireland | Any cake prepared with beer as a main ingredient; pictured is a chocolate bundt cake infused with stout beer. |
| Berlingozzo | | Italy | A simple ring-shaped yeast cake to celebrate Carnival. |
| Better than sex cake | | United States | A chocolate or yellow cake with a moist, filled center, covered with whipped cream. |
| Bibikkan | | Sri Lanka | A cake made of shredded coconut, jaggery and semolina and a mixture of spices; it is commonly prepared and consumed in celebration of festive and religious occasions. |
| Bibingka | | Philippines | A traditional rice cake from the Philippines made with ground glutinous rice and coconut milk. |
| Bienenstich (Bee Sting) | | Germany | A yeast cake with a topping of caramelized almonds and filled with 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 are meant to represent someone's age (for example, a birthday cake for a nine-year-old person would have nine candles). |
| Biscoff cake | | United States and Europe | A cake that incorporates Lotus Biscoff cookies. |
| Bizcocho Dominicano | | Dominican Republic | A cake with a moist, airy texture and meringue frosting. |
| Black Forest cake, often known as "Black Forest gâteau" or "Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte" | | Germany | A cake featuring cherries, kirsch, and chocolate. Typically, there is one bottom layer of chocolate shortcrust and two layers of chocolate sponge cake; the cake is then filled with cherry jam and whipped cream. |
| Blackout cake, sometimes known as "Brooklyn Blackout cake" | | United States | A chocolate cake filled with chocolate pudding and topped with chocolate cake crumbs. |
| Bløtkake | | Norway | A type of layer cake from Norway that consists of layers of sukkerbrød, with whipped cream and/or custard. |
| Bolo de mel | | Portugal | A sweet, heavy cake made with molasses or honey, often with walnuts and almonds. The name translates to "honey cake". |
| Bolo-rei | | Portugal | A traditional Portuguese king cake (type of fruitcake), characteristic of the Christmas season and usually crown-shaped. |
| Boston cream pie | | United States | A yellow cake filled with custard and topped with some form of chocolate. |
| Brazil nut cake | | Brazil | A cake prepared using Brazil nuts as a primary ingredient; it is 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. |
| Broyé poitevin | | France | A simple butter cake. |
| Bublanina | | Czech Republic | A sweet kneaded bun with fruit embedded into the top of the pastry. |
| Buccellato | | Italy | A circular cake containing nuts and candied fruit, traditionally associated with Christmas. |
| Buche de Noel | | France | A traditional Christmas cake made to resemble a log, commonly decorated with confections shaped as various woodland items such as mushrooms, snow and berries. Also known as a yule log. |
| Budapestlängd | | Sweden | A rolled meringue-hazelnut cake filled with whipped cream and pieces of canned peach, apricot, or mandarin orange. |
| Buko pandan cake | | Philippines | A sponge or chiffon cake flavored with extracts from boiled pandan leaves and frosted with cream and young coconut or macapuno strips |
| 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. Bundt cakes are not generally associated with any single recipe, but they are often made with chocolate. |
| Bustrengo | | San Marino, Italy | A dense and moist cake containing cornmeal, bread crumbs or stale bread, figs, raisins, diced apples, lemon rind and orange rind. |
| Butter cake | | United Kingdom | A cake featuring butter as one of the main ingredients. |
| 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 |
| Butterkuchen | | Germany | A simple buttery and sweet German cake baked on a tray. |
| Cardinal slice | | Austria | A classic layered Viennese desert consisting of a sponge cake layer and meringue and filled with red currant jam. The colors of the layers, white and yellow, are meant to represent the colors of the Vatikan. |
| Carrot cake | | United Kingdom | A moist, dense, sweet cake made with carrots. Variations include Rüblitorte, a classic Swiss carrot cake made from a sponge cake with carrots and hazelnuts or almonds, glazed with a sugar glaze, and decorated with small marzipan carrots. |
| Cassata | | Italy | Cassata consists of round sponge cake moistened with fruit juices or liqueur and layered with ricotta, 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 |
| Cassatella di sant'Agata | | Italy | Cakes shaped like breasts to honor Saint Agatha of Sicily. Made of sponge, moistened with juice or liqueur, and stuffed with ricotta and chocolate. Decorated with marzipan, icing, and candied fruit. |
| Cassava cake | | Philippines | A traditional Filipino moist cake made from grated cassava, coconut milk, and condensed milk with a custard layer on top. |
