This cherry cake with almond frosting pairs a light, moist crumb with clean cherry flavor and a subtle almond finish. Simple to make yet bakery-worthy, it’s the kind of dessert people ask for again.

The 3-ingredient raspberry cream cheese frosting might just be my favorite cake topping of all time.

Dense, moist and homey, carrot cake is the quintessential American classic. It evolved from a time when sugar was expensive, so root vegetables like carrots, parsnips and beets sweetened the batter.

(Excerpted from "The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook" 2nd edition by Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner with chef Brian Alberg. Used with permission from Countryman Press.) This handsome carrot ...