Our Best Birthday Cake Recipes
Buttermilk White Cake with Coconut
This delicate, tender cake is enveloped in fluffy frosting and coconut.
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Red Velvet Cake
A little cocoa and red food coloring turn classic white cake into a red-hot dessert. Buttercream frosting adds an extra layer of decadence to this birthday cake recipe.
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Chocolate Cake with Malt Topping
This brithday cake's deep chocolate flavor makes it sophisticated enough for grown-up palates, while the malted milk balls make it whimsically fun and kid-friendly.
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Dulce de Leche Cake
With irresistible dulce de leche cream inside, and whipped cream frosting and caramelized sugar drizzle outside, this cake is sure to impress.
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Chocolate and Vanilla Red Velvet Cake
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.
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Classic Vanilla Cake
Keep it simple yet stunning with this ultra moist birthday cake recipe. Sour cream adds a pleasing tart twist and makes the frosting extra creamy.
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Walnut Cake with Caramel Whipped Cream
This airy walnut-orange cake features candied nuts in the whipped cream filling. The easy caramel sauce can be made while the cake bakes.
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Chocolate-Lover's Cake
The ultimate chocolate cake is topped with a heavenly chocolate butter frosting. It makes the perfect birthday cake for the chocolate lover in your life.
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Italian Cream Cake
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.
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Orange Chiffon Cake
Made with orange zest and juice -- then finished with orange fluff frosting -- this cake is full of citrusy goodness.
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Six-Layer Strawberry Cake
Layers of white cake are filled with a luscious strawberry-and-lemon cream cheese frosting.
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Double Chocolate Cake
Cocoa powder, dark chocolate, and a creamy chocolate frosting give this rich cake lots of chocolaty goodness.
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Pistachio Cake with White Chocolate Buttercream
Caramelized pistachio shards make a simple but elegant topping on this scrumptious special-occasion cake.
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Butterscotch Marble Cake
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.
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Strawberry-Chocolate Cake
This easy-to-make pink layer cake is filled with creamy chocolate frosting.
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Triple-Layer Lemon Cake
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.
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Cake Decorating: Easy Frosting Designs
With just a few household tools (a spoon and a fork!) even the most beginner baker can make impressive birthday cake designs. Watch to learn how!