10-inch Whole Cheesecakes and Specialty Cakes

$1 cheaper than the 10-inch Reese's cake, and 260 calories a slice lighter. Those are the two peanut butter whole cakes, and this is the one I'd pick for children.

The candy sits in plain sight. Butterfinger and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are swirled with caramel and peanut butter through creamy cheesecake. Kids read that at a glance.

Butterfinger has belonged to Ferrara since Nestlé sold its American candy business in 2018, and both candies bring peanuts, so the whole cake is off limits to anyone with that allergy.

Twelve to fourteen slices and pecans in every layer, which rules it out for any party where you don't know everyone's allergies. For a table of adults you do know, it's one of the richest cakes in the range and nobody leaves any. 1,300 calories a slice.

Candied pecans on top go soft in a humid fridge after about 2 days. Buy it close to the event if the crunch matters to you.

Tree nuts are listed, and that's the first thing to settle before you carry a whole one into a party.

Carrot cake is the dessert people assume is safe for everyone. A 10-inch cuts into 12 to 14 slices going to 12 to 14 guests, and you won't have checked all of them for allergies. Bring a nut-free option alongside it.

Each slice runs 1,720 calories and 122 grams of fat. Cream cheese frosting holds at room temperature for a few hours, so of the big cakes this is one of the easier ones to carry across town.

The party cake for a table where nobody agrees. Confetti sponge, a pink layer and a blue one, white frosting, sprinkles up the sides — twelve to fourteen slices of something that looks like a birthday from across a room.

1,380 calories a slice, 98 grams of fat, 740 mg of sodium.

Two things will ruin it. Warmth, because the mousse bands soften and bleed into each other, and a tilted box, because the frosting picks up every mark it touches. Straight home, straight in the fridge, cut it cold.

Of the three whole cakes made with peanuts, this has the least salt by a distance: 400 mg a slice, against 750 in the Adam's and 940 in the Reese's.

It arrived on National Cheesecake Day in 2020, the year the company marked the day by donating $1 per slice to Feeding America. Original cheesecake is swirled with Snickers on a brownie crust. Chocolate, caramel and peanuts go on top.

19 grams of protein a slice, third among the whole cakes. The peanuts rule out any table with an allergy, same as its two siblings.

Twelve to fourteen slices, and one of the most fragile cakes in the range to move. The mousse sits proud of the cheesecake. It slumps if the box tilts or warms up on the drive.

Keep it flat, keep it cold, and don't collect it at the start of a day of errands.

Cut it straight from the fridge with a hot dry knife, dipped in boiling water and wiped between every slice, because mousse and cheesecake resist a blade differently and a cold knife drags one into the other. 1,220 calories, 94 grams of fat and 480 mg of sodium a slice.

At 1,770 calories a slice, this is the heaviest whole cake the bakery sells.

It's also the tallest, well over half a foot of fudge cake layered with chocolate truffle cream and chocolate mousse, and height is the problem once you get it home. The box is tall too. Measure the space in your fridge before you collect it.

Cut it with a long serrated knife, sawing rather than pressing, or the upper layers slide off the lower ones. Cut the slices thinner than you would a cheesecake.

Cut it, and the reason to buy it shows. Fudge cake, chocolate cheesecake, mascarpone mousse and ganache. Every slice looks like it was plated on purpose.

At 1,250 calories and 400 mg of sodium a slice, its salt is the third-lowest of any 10-inch cake in the range.

Cut it at the table, because the cross-section is the whole event.

This is a cold-weather cake. I'd buy it for a November or December table rather than a birthday.

Layers of cinnamon cheesecake alternate with vanilla crunch cake inside a crumb coating, under cream cheese frosting and a caramel drizzle, and the cinnamon is the hot, sweet cassia style Americans know from cinnamon rolls rather than the milder Ceylon.

10 grams of protein and 141 grams of carbohydrate a slice. 1,370 calories. The caramel drizzle on top runs if the cake warms up, so serve it cold.

Coconut divides a room. I wouldn't bring a coconut cake to a party where I don't know the guests.

For a household that likes it, this is a strong cake: coconut cheesecake over vanilla custard and a thin chocolate layer, on a coconut macaroon crust, with shredded coconut over the whole outside.

The chocolate layer is the surprise. You don't see it until you cut. 1,370 calories and 98 grams of fat a slice.

1,550 calories a slice. Only three whole cakes are heavier, and the S'mores Galore ties it.

Children see cookie dough and want it, but the dough itself is chocolate chip pecan, so tree nuts run through every slice rather than sitting on top where a parent could pick them off, and that makes this a cake to check against the guest list first.

Cookie dough frosting finishes the top. Cut the slices thin. A standard one carries 62 grams of saturated fat.

Almond brickle on top means tree nuts in every slice.

That decides where you can take it. For guests you don't know, take the Salted Caramel, which is nut-free. For adults who like their caramel milkier and less sharp, this is the better cake.

110 grams of fat a slice, the fourth-highest of the 10-inch range. The brickle goes soft after about 2 days in the fridge. Buy it close to the day.

Buy it the day you serve it.

Cut banana browns because an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase reacts with oxygen the moment the fruit's cells are broken, and on a whole cake the fresh slices across the top are the first thing to go dull and soft in the fridge. Every other part of the cake would hold for days. The fruit won't.

Under the banana is Bavarian cream, and under that, banana cream cheesecake. 1,250 calories and 90 grams of fat a slice.

Twelve to fourteen slices with whole glazed strawberries across the entire top, which is the reason to buy this size over a slice. On one wedge you get three berries. On a full cake you get a red surface that does the work of a decorated cake without any decoration.

It has a shelf life, though. Fresh fruit starts softening and bleeding juice into the cheesecake after about 48 hours in the fridge, so collect it the day before at the earliest and serve it within 2 days.

1,000 calories a slice, 69 grams of fat.

Fresh strawberries are what make slicing a cheesecake hard at home, because the knife drags glazed berries across the filling and smears every cut face. Here it's done before the box is closed, and at $69.95 to $76.95 it costs exactly what the uncut cake does.

Don't freeze the leftovers. Frozen strawberries collapse into mush when they thaw. Plan to finish it within two days.

1,000 calories a slice, 170 more than the Original.

Twelve to fourteen slices, and the one whole cake on this list you can put in front of a coeliac guest. Flourless chocolate base instead of a crumb crust means no gluten and no wheat in the recipe — worth confirming shared prep with the restaurant, but the ingredients themselves are clear.

1,400 calories a slice, 105 grams of fat, 260 mg of sodium.

Dense cakes travel better than airy ones, and this is about as dense as they come. No mousse to slump, no fruit to slide. It'll take a car journey without complaint.

Nothing on this cake breaks in transit: chocolate chips pressed into the sides, frosting on top, no mousse, no fruit, no loose topping.

That makes it the forgiving choice for a children's party. It holds at room temperature for a few hours. Anyone can cut it.

US rules require milk chocolate to contain at least 10% chocolate liquor, which is why it tastes sweeter and milder than dark. 1,320 calories a slice.

Buy this one for a summer table, or for the end of a long rich meal where a chocolate cake would be too much. The acidity does something none of the other whole cakes do.

Twelve to fourteen slices at 1,160 calories each, 86 grams of fat, 430 mg of sodium. No soy in the allergen list, which narrows it to gluten, wheat, milk and egg — a shorter list than most cakes here. It holds in the fridge for 3 or 4 days without deteriorating. No mousse to settle, no fresh fruit to weep, so this is one of the safer whole cakes to collect a day or two ahead of the event.

Twelve to fourteen slices at 73 grams of fat each, 21 under the Chocolate Mousse. Meringue instead of cream topping is why. The meringue is also the problem. It marks if anything touches it, it weeps if it sits too long, and it will not survive a box on its side. Buy this one the day you're serving it and carry it flat.

1,170 calories a slice. Gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy.

It's the whole cake I'd buy for a spring table, Easter or Mother's Day, when the weather has turned and nobody wants a slab of chocolate.

Four components stack up in the cut. Raspberry-vanilla cake, lemon cheesecake, raspberry ladyfingers and lemon mousse. Ladyfingers began in the Duchy of Savoy, which is why Italians still call them savoiardi.

At 1,040 calories a slice, 30 of the 38 whole cakes are heavier. Protein is 10 grams, and sodium 420 mg.

The cake to buy when the birthday belongs to someone who doesn't like cheesecake. That person exists at most tables and this menu doesn't serve them well — a 10-inch Linda's is chocolate sponge and fudge frosting, nothing else, twelve to fourteen slices of it. 1,450 calories a slice and 233 grams of carbohydrate, which is the most sugar-forward cake in the range.

Frosting is more forgiving in transit than mousse or fruit. It'll take a knock without looking damaged, and it holds at room temperature for a few hours, so this is the easier cake to carry to a party across town.

At 570 calories and 37 grams of carbohydrate a slice, this has the fewest calories and the fewest carbs of any whole cake the bakery sells.

No gluten or wheat is listed, and there's no added sugar. So it's the cake to buy when one guest can't eat sugar or gluten and you'd rather they didn't sit out dessert.

Milk, egg and soy are listed. 44 grams of fat. The menu describes a walnut crust, yet tree nuts aren't in the published allergen list. Check with the restaurant before serving it to a guest with a nut allergy.

The strawberries add $1 to the price of the whole cake at the low end of the range, $66.95 against $65.95, and 10 calories a slice.

For a table that includes someone avoiding sugar, it's the version I'd buy, because fresh fruit makes it look like any other celebration cake instead of the diet option. 580 calories a slice, 39 grams of carbohydrate.

The menu labels it low carb, no sugar added and gluten free. Tree nuts aren't in its allergen data. Confirm the crust with the restaurant before serving anyone with a nut allergy.

The summer cake. Twelve to fourteen slices of key lime under mango mousse on a coconut macaroon crust. That crust is chewier and sturdier than a graham base, and it's the reason this cake handles a car journey and an outdoor table better than most of the range. It holds a slice together when someone cuts it badly with a plastic knife.

Check the allergens before you bring it to a mixed group. Tree nuts are listed, and at a barbecue nobody reads a mango cake as a nut risk. 1,300 calories a slice.

A 10-inch cake cuts into twelve to fourteen honest slices, and at 1,510 calories each this is the biggest-ticket cake in the range. Buy it for a birthday where the guest of honour is under twenty-five. The practical problem is the top. Mousse and loose cookie pieces don't survive being tilted, so this needs to travel flat on a car seat rather than in a footwell or on a lap.

Cut it cold, straight from the fridge, with a long knife wiped between slices. The mousse layer smears into the cheesecake otherwise and every slice after the second looks worse than the first.

830 calories a slice, and that makes it the lightest cheesecake in the case apart from the no-sugar-added Low-Licious. Everything else here runs a thousand and up.

Buy this one when you don't know the room. No fruit to go soft, no mousse to smear, no chocolate for someone to object to, and twelve to fourteen slices out of a 10-inch. It's also the cake to buy a day early. Plain cheesecake firms up overnight and cuts far cleaner cold than it does the afternoon you collect it. Anything with fresh fruit on top doesn't get that option.

Gluten, wheat, milk, egg, soy.

It costs the same as the uncut 10-inch Original. The price range is $65.95 to $69.95 for both, so the cutting is free.

That makes this the version I'd buy almost every time the cake is feeding a crowd rather than being presented at the table. Nobody has to find a long knife, dip it in hot water and wipe it between every cut, which is what cheesecake needs if the slices are going to look neat. Leftovers are easier too. Wrap single slices and freeze them.

The figures don't change: 830 calories, 59 grams of fat and 510 mg of sodium a slice.

It launched on National Cheesecake Day, July 30, 2025, and a peach cake with raspberry on top belongs on a late-summer table, somewhere between the Fourth of July and Labor Day.

Peach-swirled cheesecake sits on a vanilla crust. The raspberry drizzle goes over the top. Keep it cold, because a drizzle runs as soon as the cake warms.

1,450 calories a slice, tied with Linda's Fudge Cake for eighth-heaviest of the 38 whole cakes. No nuts.

Buy it for a table where the oldest guests will recognise it. Pineapple upside-down cake was popular enough by 1925 that a recipe contest run by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, later Dole, drew around 2,500 versions of it, and it never really left American family tables after that.

This cheesecake arrived on National Cheesecake Day in 2019. Pineapple cheesecake sits between two layers of the upside-down cake. Those cake layers make it steadier in a car than anything topped with mousse.

Each slice carries 99 grams of sugar out of 109 grams of carbohydrate, with 1,260 calories.

23 grams of protein a slice, more than any other whole cake the bakery sells. The peanut butter cups are why.

For adults who say they don't really like cheesecake, this is the whole cake I'd bring, because the fudge cake and caramel layers do most of the talking and the cheesecake between them reads as filling rather than the main event.

It's heavy, though. 1,510 calories and 154 grams of carbohydrate a slice, both in the top six of the 38 whole cakes. Peanuts rule it out for anyone with that allergy.

The nut-free caramel cake. That's why you buy it for a party, twelve to fourteen slices going to guests whose allergies you can't check, because the Dulce de Leche carries almond brickle and the Caramel Pecan Turtle is full of pecans.

1,240 calories a slice. The blonde brownie crust is chewy rather than crumbly, so slices come out whole even when they're cut fast by someone who isn't paying attention. On a busy table that's worth more than it sounds.

At 980 calories a slice, only the Original and the Low-Licious come in lighter among the whole cheesecakes, which I didn't expect from coffee and mascarpone. The Carrot Cake runs 1,720. Twelve to fourteen slices, 70 grams of fat, 450 mg of sodium. The cocoa dusting on top is the fragile part — it lifts and smudges against a box lid, so this arrives looking better if it travels flat and cold.

Buy it for a dinner party rather than a children's birthday. Coffee is the dominant flavour and it doesn't land with everyone.

The first published s'mores recipe appeared in a 1927 Girl Scouts handbook, and 99 years later this cake is aimed at the same audience, so buy it for a birthday where the guests are mostly under twelve.

At 1,550 calories and 108 grams of fat a slice, it's the fifth-heaviest 10-inch cake the bakery sells.

Transport is the risk. The torched marshmallow marks if the lid touches it, and the graham cracker pieces on top slide around in a turning car. Carry it flat on a seat, not on a lap.

The pink and white chocolate curls around the rim are the first thing to break. Carry the box flat, and don't stack anything on it.

Under the curls sit whipped cream and fresh mint, over cheesecake layered with vanilla cake, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and a touch of citrus, a combination that joined the permanent menu on July 29, 2024.

1,300 calories a slice. 11 grams of protein. It's the whole cake I'd pick for a baby shower.

116 grams of fat a slice. Among the 10-inch cakes, only the Carrot Cake has more.

Red velvet started as a cocoa cake that turned faintly reddish when natural cocoa met buttermilk and vinegar, and the deep red in modern versions comes from food colouring.

This one alternates red cake with cheesecake under cream cheese frosting, with white chocolate curls pressed around the sides. Those curls soften and drop off in a warm car. Keep it cold until the moment it's served. 1,580 calories a slice.

The plainest cake in the range and the one I'd pick for a mixed table where you don't know what people like. Nobody objects to vanilla, and somebody always objects to coffee, coconut or peanut butter.

You can see real vanilla bean as black specks through the filling. That's how you tell it from extract. A 10-inch cuts into 12 to 14 portions at 1,170 calories and 88 grams of fat each, with gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy listed. Collect it a day ahead.

Cheesecake firms up overnight in the fridge and slices far more cleanly cold.

A cake for adults who've already had every chocolate cake at every party they've been to. Twelve to fourteen slices, 1,220 calories each. It keeps. Because the raspberry is swirled through the filling instead of piled on top, there's nothing fragile to protect — this will sit covered in the fridge for 4 or 5 days and slice as cleanly on day four as on day one.

Gluten, wheat, milk, egg and soy are listed.

Tiramisù translates as "pick me up", and Le Beccherie in Treviso is the restaurant most histories credit with putting it on a menu, around 1970.

This comes as a tray rather than a round cake, which suits a buffet where people help themselves. The menu doesn't publish how many portions a tray holds. Ask when you order.

Per serving it's 1,270 calories, with 390 mg of sodium, the second-lowest salt figure in the whole-cake range. That calorie count matches the Tiramisu slice in the dessert case exactly, yet the numbers underneath differ, with 16 fewer grams of fat and 34 more of carbohydrate, so the tray isn't simply the slice in bulk.