50 Birthday Cake Recipes (2024)

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Lemon Cheesecake Cake

This Lemon Cheesecake Cake consists of a creamy lemon cheesecake layer sandwiched between layers of moist lemon buttermilk cake. It is such an impressive, delicious cake!

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Funfetti Cake Recipe from Scratch

This moist Funfetti Cake consists of tender yellow cake layers speckled with colorful sprinkles! It is such a fun celebration cakes and is a great birthday cake recipe!

3

German Chocolate Cake Recipe! {Scratch}

This classic cake recipe is sure to make any event more special- with a wonderful combination of chocolate, coconut, and pecans! We have a delicious doctored cake mix version of this recipe as well!

4

Chocolate Mousse Cake (Cake Mix)

This decadent Chocolate Mousse Cake is so easy to make! Chocolate doctored cake mix layers are filled with easy "chocolate mousse" and frosted with chocolate buttercream! Perfect for birthdays, holidays, and more.

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Pistachio Cake

This moist, soft Pistachio Cake has wonderful flavor. We've frosted and filled it with a classic cream cheese frosting.

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Pumpkin Spice Cake {Scratch Recipe}

Although this is more common in the fall and winter months, I couldn't leave this Pumpkin Spice Cake off of the list! It is just so moist, velvety soft, and bursting with flavor!

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Mint Chocolate Cupcakes

These soft, fluffy mint chocolate cupcakes are the best!! Rich chocolate cupcakes from scratch are filled and frosted with mint buttercream. You will love this recipe!

8

Carrot Cake from Scratch

This scratch Carrot Cake is my FAVORITE cake, and one of our most popular recipes on the site. Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, pecans, coconut, and spices is perfect with cream cheese filling and frosting. Makes a wonderful birthday cake recipe, holiday cake, and more!

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Pink Velvet Cake

This moist and flavorful Pink Velvet Cake has fine crumb, velvety soft texture, and wonderful vanilla flavor. This cake uses cream cheese in the cake batter, like our popular white velvet cake, vanilla velvet cake, strawberry cake, and more.

10

Funfetti Cupcakes

These moist, soft Funfetti Cupcakes are delicious and so cheerful! Keep them in mind for kids parties, birthday parties, potlucks, and more!

11

Brownie Cake

This moist brownie cake is the perfect balance of brownies and cake! Keep it in mind for the chocolate lovers in your life, this cake begins with a box of brownie mix!

12

Coconut Cream Cake

This heavenly Coconut Cream Cake is so moist and tender. We've filled it with a luscious pastry cream! Makes a wonderful birthday cake recipe, holiday cake, and more.

13

Carrot Cake Cupcakes (Doctored Cake Mix)

Oh how we love carrot cake and cupcakes! This easy recipe for carrot cake cupcakes starts with a mix (but nobody would ever suspect it!)

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Vanilla Cupcakes

Vanilla Cupcakes are always a welcome dessert for birthday parties! These flavorful vanilla cupcakes are super moist and fluffy- they taste so good with just about any frosting and filling you can think of! A great grab-and-go dessert for birthdays!

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German Chocolate Cake (Cake Mix Recipe)

Nobody would guess that this easy German Chocolate Cake starts with a box of cake mix! Just as with the scratch version, the coconut and pecan frosting take it to another level of deliciousness! Keep this classic cake in mind the next time you need a birthday cake recipe, holiday cake, or are just craving a fantastic dessert.

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Lemonade Cake

This moist lemonade cake recipe is the best! It is soft and has wonderful lemonade flavor Perfect for summer celebrations or for the lemon lovers in. your life.

17

Chocolate Cake from Scratch

This decadent scratch chocolate cake is our go-to chocolate cake recipe! It is ultra moist and rich! Make this birthday cake recipe for the chocolate lovers in your life!

18

Raspberry Cake

We love this Raspberry Cake Recipe! This moist raspberry cake consists of raspberry cake layers (flavored with a raspberry reduction), raspberry filling and cream cheese frosting!

19

Lemon Almond Cake

This ultra moist lemon almond cake has the perfect balance of lemon and almond flavor. Perfect birthday cake recipe as well as for other special occasions!

20

Chocolate Cupcakes from Scratch

These fluffy, chocolatey cupcakes make a wonderful dessert for all sorts of occasions! They are so moist and have just the right amount of chocolate. Keep this chocolate cupcake recipe in mind for birthdays, potlucks, and more!

21

Devil's Food Cake with Raspberry Filling- Scratch Recipe

This rich homemade Devil's Food Cake is wonderful with raspberry filling and raspberry frosting!

22

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake- Scratch Recipe

This soft and rich Chocolate Sour Cream Cake is another of our favorite chocolate cakes! The flavor and texture are divine, thanks to the sour cream in cake batter!

23

Black Forest Cake Recipe

This Black Forest Cake From Scratch is the Best! Chocolate cake infused with Cherry Liqueur and filled with whipped cream and cherry filling!

24

Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Recipe

The buttermilk in this vanilla cake recipe makes it so soft and tender! It is perfect with all sorts of fruit, chocolate, or cream fillings!

25

Almond Cake (A Scratch Recipe)

This light and tender Almond Cake has the perfect texture and almond flavor! We just love it!

26

Pineapple Cake Recipe

This pineapple cake is one of our most popoular recipes! Moist yellow cake layersa re fillinga nd topped with a luscious pineapple and cream filling! This is a fantastaic birthday cake recipe and special occasion cake.

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Hummingbird Cake Recipe

This moist, flavorful Hummingbird Cake is always a favorite! It is a classic recipe with banana, pecans, crushed pineapple, and cinnamon. We love it with cream cheese filling and frosting!

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Piña Colada Cake Recipe

This Piña Colada Cake makes a wonderful adult birthday cake recipe, bachelorette party cake, New Year's eve cake, and more! Any occasion that calls for a Piña Colada, calls for a Piña Colada Cake as well. You will love the amazing combination of coconut, pineapple, and a hint of rum.

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Marble Cake {A Scratch Recipe}

This moist Marble Cake with chocolate buttercream is the perfect birthday cake recipe! Moist yellow cake layers are swirled with cocoa for just the right balance of flavor!

30

Banana Split Cake

This Banana Split Cake is such a delicious and unexpected addition to the dessert table! Banana cake layers are filled with pineapple and strawberries, frosted in a whipped cream cheese frosting, and topped with a rich ganache. Perfect for any special occasion!

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Neapolitan Cake

If you can't decide between chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry cake, you don't have to! This Neapolitan Cake combines all three flavors into an impressive, beautiful, and delicious dessert!

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Chocolate Truffle Cake

This rich and decadent Chocolate Truffle Cake consists of moist chocoalte cake layers filled with ganache truffle filling! If you love chocolate cake, you will LOVE this dessert!

33

Easy Boston Cream Pie Recipe

This easy Boston Cream Pie, is a great birthday cake recipe! It is easy to make, delicious, and the presentation is beautiful! Yellow cake layers are filled with an easy vanilla cream filling, and topped with a chocolate glaze. So good!

34

Orange Dreamsicle Cake- Delicious Homemade Recipe

As expepcted, this amazing Orange Dreamsicle Cake tastes like a Dreamsicle! Moist orange cake layers are filled with orange cream filling and frosted with orange cream cheese frosting. This has been one of our most popular cake recipes over the years!

35

Blueberry Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

This delicious Blueberry Cake has amazing blueberry flavor and goes perfectly with our lemon cream cheese frosting! If you are looking for a perfectly moist blueberry layer cake, this is the one!

36

Berry Chantilly Cake

This fruity Chantilly Cake is sure to please! Moist vanilla cake layers are filled with chantilly cream and fresh berries!

37

Butterscotch Cake {Cake Mix Recipe}

This super easy Butterscotch Cake is incredibly moist and has a velvety soft texture . Make this for the butterscotch fans in your life, they will LOVE it! (We have a scratch version as well!)

38

Easy Pineapple Upside Down Bundt Cake

Pineapple Upside Down Cake is a classic recipe that always gets rave reviews. It is a wonderful combination of yellow cake, brown sugar, and pineapple. You will love this beautiful, EASY, bundt cake version! Makes an extra special birthday cake recipe or holiday recipe!

39

Orange Cake

This fluffy orange cake is so moist, light, and tender! We just love it with so many fillings and frostings, from homemade whipped cream filling to lemon cream cheese frosting, orange cream cheese frosting, orange curd, and more!

40

Homemade White Cake

This Homemade White Cake is light, moist and so tender!

41

Oreo Ice Cream Cake

This Oreo Ice Cream Cake is beautiful and SO delicious! If you are looking for a no-bake recipe for chocolate lovers, keep this recipe in mind! It tastes like a sundae, with chocolate ice cream, Cookies & Cream ice cream, hot fudge, and lots of crushed Oreos!

42

Cookies and Cream Cake

Everybody loves Oreos! This Cookies and Cream Cake consists of moist vanilla cake layers that are speckled with crushed Oreos! We filled it with homemade Oreo Whipped Cream!

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White Chocolate Velvet Cake

We love White Chocolate Velvet Cake recipe! As the name suggests, it has a wonderful, velvety soft texture thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter.

44

Homemade Strawberry Cake

This moist strawberry cake has fantastic strawberry flavor and the perfect texture. We love it with lemon cream cheese frosting as well (for a Strawberry Lemonade Cake)!

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Vanilla Velvet Cake

Vanilla Velvet Cake is a popular go-to vanilla cake recipe! It is great with vanilla buttercream, but can also be paired with any fruit or chocolate filling! We love the velvety soft texture and vanilla flavor!

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White Velvet Cake

Another Velvet Cake! This White Velvet Cake is our most popular white cake recipe. It has a heavenly, soft texture and is so moist with a fine crumb! You will love this cake!

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Strawberry Lemonade Cake

This Strawberry Lemonade Cake has the perfect combination of strawberry and lemon flavor! We love it year round but especailly in the spring and summer months!

48

Italian Cream Cake Recipe

This amazing Italian Cream Cake recipe has so much flavor from chopped pecans, coconut, cream cheese frosting and more! You can never go wrong with this classic cake- it has long been one of our favorites (and most popular)!

49

Limoncello Cake

This moist lemon cake has a fine crumb and light limoncello flavor! It is a perfect cake for an adult brithday celebration!

50

Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

This easy carrot cake is very similar to our scratch version as it has amazing flavor from grated carrots, crushed pineapple, pecans, and cinnamon!

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Oreo Cupcakes (Doctored Cake Mix)

Oreo Cupcakes are the perfect recipe for birthday parties! These delicious vanilla cupcakes (which begin with cake mix) are speckled with crushed Oreos and topped with Oreo Buttercream. So good!

52

Marble Cake (from Cake Mix)

This Marble Cake Mix recipe is divine! It is a yellow cake mix add-ins like sour cream and instant pudding. It has an amazing texture and swirls of chocolate from the cocoa added! It makes a wonderful birthday cake recipe!

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Yellow Birthday Cake

This moist yellow cake has a fine crumb and wonderful flavor. We love it with chocolate buttercream but it would pair perfectly with countless fillings and frosting flavors!

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Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

These lemon cupcakes are perfect for birthday parties! Based on our Lemon Buttermilk Cake, these lemon cupcakes are incredibly moist and have a light lemon flavor. We frosted them with lemon cream cheese frosting!

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Snickerdoodle Cake

We love this Snickerdoodle Cake as a birthday cake recipe, holiday cake, and more! Inspired by the cinnamon sugar cookie, vanilla cake layers are swirled with brown sugar and cinnamon in this delicious dessert!

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Cinnamon Roll Layer Cake (Cake Mix Recipe)

Nobody would guess that this amazing Cinnamon Roll Layer Cake starts with a box of yellow cake mix!

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Lemon Cake {A Scratch Recipe}

Lemon Cakes are always a popular choice for birthdays, holidays, and gatherings with family and friends! This scratch lemon cake in moist and soft, and has a wonderful filling of lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting.

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Mocha Cake (Doctored Cake Mix)

This is a wonderful birthday cake recipe for the coffee and chocolate lovers in your life! It is so easy, moist, a delicious.

59

Yellow Cake from Scratch

This buttery scratch Yellow Cake recipe tastes SO good. It is soft, moist, and oh so delicious!