Our Best Birthday Cake Recipes
Put your own personal spin on a celebration-worthy cake. Here's how.
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Keep it simple yet stunning with this ultra moist cake. Sour cream adds a pleasing tart twist and makes the frosting extra creamy.
Layers of white cake are filled with a luscious strawberry-and-lemon cream cheese frosting.
With lemon zest and juice in the cake, the frosting, and the curd filling, this centerpiece is bursting with lemony flavor. Lemons sauteed with sugar create a rustic but beautiful topping.
This creative take on the classic red velvet cake includes a rich vanilla filling made with white chocolate and mascarpone cheese, as well as a luxurious chocolate ganache frosting.
Cocoa powder, dark chocolate, and a creamy chocolate frosting give this rich cake lots of chocolaty goodness.
For an easy yet impressive birthday cake, try this recipe -- it starts with a boxed cake mix and butterscotch pudding. A rich, chocolaty icing adds a sweet finishing touch.
The ultimate chocolate cake is topped with a heavenly chocolate butter frosting.
This airy walnut-orange cake features candied nuts in the whipped cream filling. The easy caramel sauce can be made while the cake bakes.
This three-layer cake gets its rich flavor from coconut and pecans. Extra toasted pecans between the layers add just the right amount of crunch.
Caramelized pistachio shards make a simple but elegant topping on this scrumptious special-occasion cake.
This cake's deep chocolate flavor makes it sophisticated enough for grown-up palates, while the malted milk balls make it whimsically fun.
This easy-to-make pink layer cake is filled with creamy chocolate frosting.
With irresistible dulce de leche cream inside, and whipped cream frosting and caramelized sugar drizzle outside, this cake is sure to impress.
This creative buttermilk cake is flecked with bits of crunchy pecans and chewy dried apricots. Mascarpone cheese makes the chocolate frosting super -rich and extremely creamy.
Made with orange zest and juice -- then finished with orange fluff frosting -- this cake is full of citrusy goodness.
This delicate, tender cake is enveloped in fluffy frosting and coconut.
A little cocoa and red food coloring turn classic white cake into a red-hot dessert. Buttercream frosting adds an extra layer of decadence.
Based on the famous cocktail, this cake gets its punch from coffee liqueur and whipped cream topping. For extra decadence, drizzle chocolate syrup over the cake.
This spiced cake contains carrots and apples, which make it super moist and extra tasty. The natural embellishments of apple chips and cinnamon sticks give it an earthy, autumnal look.
