Recipes & Cooking Desserts & Baking Cakes Crinkle Cake Is the Best Dessert You’ve Never Heard Of 5.0 (3) 2 Reviews Our recipe testers raved about this shortcut cake recipe. By Sarah Martens Sarah Martens Sarah Martens is the Senior Editor overseeing food at Better Homes & Gardens digital. She has been with the BHG brand for more than 10 years. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Published on June 4, 2024 Recipe tested by Juliana Hale Recipe tested by Juliana Hale Juliana Hale is a senior culinary specialist in the test kitchen with 20 years of experience in recipe testing and development. She works closely with AllRecipes, Forks Over Knives, Midwest Living, and Traditional Home overseeing testing in the test kitchen for those titles. Juli is an expert in all fields of cooking, but is particularly geeky about mixology and has taught her class, Fun with Sours, to internal staff. Learn more about the Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen Rate PRINT Share Close Photo: Kelsey Hansen Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr Cool Time: 15 mins Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Servings: 20 Yield: one 13x9 pan Jump to Nutrition Facts If you're not on TikTok, you may have missed the viral Crinkle Cake recipe. The easy dessert is made with flaky phyllo dough, custard, and honey syrup. The recipe may sound complicated, but the technique is actually quite simple. There's no need to butter and layer the phyllo dough, and the custard cooks right in the pan as the cake bakes. Meet your new favorite summer dessert. What Is Crinkle Cake? Crinkle cake first showed up on our radar when baker Ramena (ramenasaidwow) shared her easy recipe on TikTok. As soon as we saw the technique of bunching the phyllo dough, we knew we had to try it. And I'm happy to say, this viral recipe totally lives up to the hype. Crinkle cake is made by making bunches of phyllo dough and placing it in a baking dish. It's then topped with a custardy egg mixture and finished with honey syrup. Our recipe testers loved the balance of crispy edges and custardy center. Why You Should Make Crinkle Cake There's lots to love about this crinkle cake recipe. Here are a few of our recipe testers favorite parts of making crinkle cake. The dish doesn't have to be perfect! As recipe tester Juli Hale shares, "Crinkling the phyllo is not that precise, just bunching in irregular folds no taller than the pan and scooching them in the dish as you go." It's quick to assemble. "Crinkling all the phyllo goes pretty quickly," says Hale. Each bite is a great combination of textures, and the finished cake isn't overly sweet. Many of our tasters mentioned it reminded them a bit of baklava without the nuts. Baklava Tassies Ingredients 1 (16 ounce) pkg. frozen phyllo dough, thawed 1 cup butter, melted 3/4 cup milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup water Directions Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 13x9-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Stack 2 sheets of phyllo at a time and fold the phyllo from a short end, accordion-style, in about 1 1/2-inch folds. Place folded phyllo in the prepared pan along the short end. (Keep remaining phyllo covered with a clean kitchen towel while you work.) Repeat with the remaining phyllo dough. When all of the phyllo is in the pan, adjust the strips as needed so they are evenly spaced in the pan. Bake 10 minutes. Remove from the oven. Drizzle with butter. Continue baking 10 minutes more. Meanwhile, whisk together milk, eggs, vanilla, and salt in a 2-cup measuring cup until combined. Pour the egg mixture over the top. Bake until the top is golden, 35 to 40 minutes. In a bowl, sir together honey and water until honey dissolves. Drizzle honey syrup over hot cake. Let cake cool on a wire rack 15 minutes; serve warm. How to Store Crinkle Cake Cover and store any leftover crinkle cake in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Rate It Print Nutrition Facts (per serving) 187 Calories 11g Fat 19g Carbs 3g Protein Show Full Nutrition Label Hide Full Nutrition Label Nutrition Facts Servings Per Recipe 20 Calories 187.3 % Daily Value * Total Fat 11.2g 14% Saturated Fat 6.4g 32% Cholesterol 43.7mg 15% Sodium 210.2mg 9% Total Carbohydrate 19.4g 7% Dietary Fiber 0.4g 2% Total Sugars 7.5g Protein 2.7g 5% Vitamin D 0.2mcg 1% Vitamin C 0.1mg 0% Calcium 19.7mg 2% Iron 0.9mg 5% Potassium 43.9mg 1% Fatty acids, total trans 0.4g Vitamin D 8.6IU Alanine 0.1g Arginine 0.1g Ash 0.8g Aspartic acid 0.2g Caffeine 0mg Carotene, alpha 0mcg Choline, total 20.1mg Copper, Cu 0mg Cystine 0.1g Energy 783.7kJ Fluoride, F 5.5mcg Folate, total 23.3mcg Glutamic acid 0.7g Glycine 0.1g Histidine 0.1g Isoleucine 0.1g Leucine 0.2g Lysine 0.1g Methionine 0.1g Magnesium, Mg 5.5mg Manganese, Mn 0.1mg Niacin 1mg Phosphorus, P 38.4mg Pantothenic acid 0.2mg Phenylalanine 0.1g Phytosterols 0mg Proline 0.3g Retinol 89.2mcg Selenium, Se 7.2mcg Serine 0.2g Theobromine 0mg Threonine 0.1g Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 0.3mg Tryptophan 0g Tyrosine 0.1g Valine 0.1g Vitamin A, IU 328IU Vitamin A, RAE 90.7mcg Vitamin B-12 0.1mcg Vitamin B-6 0mg Vitamin K (phylloquinone) 1.4mcg Water 28.6g Zinc, Zn 0.2mg *The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.