We love making these cake recipes and we make them for every occasion. These cakes are perfect for every special occasion. Baking cakes at home can be a therapeutic and fun experience for those who love baking.
This list has the best cake recipes. Find the cake that fits your occasion best.
Tips for making cakes
- Use cake strips! Cake strips give you even and perfectly baked cake layers. Click here for the amazon link.
- Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs and butter. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly. you don’t want to place cold batter into the oven.
- Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
- Don’t overmix the batter, you don’t want to develop the gluten in the flour. This step ensures you have a moist cake and not a dense and dry cake.
- Line your baking pan with parchment paper! This step helps the cake to bake evenly, and it makes sure that your loaf cake will release easily from the pan.
- Be patient! I know it’s extremely tempting to frost these cakes as they are pulled out of the oven, but let the cake cool for at least 1 hour so it will be more firm and won’t crumble up, and prevent the frosting from melting.
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- Tips for making cakes
- 1. Chocolate Cake
- 2. Lotus biscoff cake
- 3. Orange chocolate cake
- 4. Carrot cake
- 5. Cookie dough cake
- 6. Red velvet cake
- 7. Coconut cake
- 8. Tiramisu cake
- 9. Lemon cake
- 10. Strawberry shortcake cake
- 11. Pumpkin cake
- 12. Caramel cake
- 13. Smores cake
- 14. Black forest cake
- 15. Lemon blueberry cake
- 16. Nutella cake
- 17. Peanut butter cake
- 18. Strawberry cake
- 19. Tres leches cake
- 20. Funfetti cake
- 21. Apple cake
- 22. Chocolate mousse cake
- 23. Marble cake
- 24. Dark chocolate cake
- 25. Banana cake
- 26. Lava cake
- 27. Pound cake
- 28. Chocolate biscuit cake
- 29. White cake
- 30. Vanilla cake
- 31. Angle food cake
- 32. Chocolate chip cake
- 33. Cookies and cream cake
- 34. Pineapple upside-down cake
- 35. Mug cake
- 36. Hummingbird cake
- 37. German chocolate cake
- 📖 Recipe
- 37 Cake Recipes: Chocolate Cake & More
1. Chocolate Cake
This decadent chocolate cake is made by making two simple cake layers with the easiest and most chocolaty chocolate frosting. This chocolate cake is a moist, fluffy, and rich chocolate cake that is not too sweet.
2. Lotus biscoff cake
This lotus biscoff cake is a layer cake made with a soft biscoff cake, biscoff buttercream, filled with biscoff cookie crumbs, and topped with biscoff cookies.
3. Orange chocolate cake
This super moist chocolate orange cake is made with fresh orange juice, orange zest, and dutch cocoa powder, and topped with chocolate orange buttercream.
4. Carrot cake
This carrot cake is moist, soft, and perfectly spiced, made with grated carrots, brown sugar, and fall spices, and topped with a cream cheese frosting.
5. Cookie dough cake
This chocolate chip cookie dough cake is made with chocolate chip vanilla cake, filled with edible cookie dough, covered with chocolate chip buttercream, topped with chocolate ganache, and more edible cookie dough!
6. Red velvet cake
These red velvet cupcakes are fluffy, light, moist, and topped with cream cheese frosting. This cake is perfect for the holidays and for valentines day!
7. Coconut cake
This cake is made for coconut lovers. This coconut cake is soft and fluffy and made with an intense coconut flavor.
8. Tiramisu cake
Tiramisu cake is perfect for tiramisu lovers. Its made with vanilla cake layers, soaked in coffee, frosted with mascarpone frosting, and topped with plenty of cocoa powder.
9. Lemon cake
This lemon cake is made with two layers of fluffy and moist lemon cake and topped with lemon cream cheese frosting. This is the perfect summer cake.
10. Strawberry shortcake cake
Light and tender vanilla chiffon cake filled with sweet whipped cream and juicy fresh strawberries. Strawberry Shortcake Cake is the perfect dessert!
11. Pumpkin cake
This pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting is full of pumpkin, spice, and everything nice, this cake is the perfect way to usher in autumn and the holidays.
12. Caramel cake
A soft and buttery vanilla cake cloaked with sweet caramel icing! This caramel cake recipe uses the reverse creaming method for a plush, buttery crumb.
13. Smores cake
Layers of chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and pillows of marshmallows cover this tasty treat that is beautiful, rich, and flavorful.
14. Black forest cake
This black forest cake is made by layering moist chocolate cake layers with fresh cherries, cherry liquor, whipped cream, and topped with chocolate ganache.
15. Lemon blueberry cake
This blueberry Lemon Cake is a vibrant layer cake recipe bursting with juicy berries and fresh lemon, frosted with a tangy lemon buttercream frosting.
16. Nutella cake
This incredible Nutella cake is made by making three chocolate Nutella cake layers, and Nutella buttercream, and topped with chocolate ganache.
17. Peanut butter cake
This Peanut Butter Cake is so moist, rich, and unbelievably easy to make. Paired with a fluffy and creamy peanut butter frosting, this peanut butter flavored cake is perfect for the peanut-lover in your life.
18. Strawberry cake
This strawberry cake is a moist cake flavored with real strawberries, filled with a fresh strawberry jam, and covered with a whipped cream cheese frosting.
19. Tres leches cake
Tres Leches Cake is soft and moist, with a trio of 3 sweet milks that soak into the light and fluffy sponge cake. Topped with homemade whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon
20. Funfetti cake
This funfetti cake is made with three layers of white cake are flecked with a baked-in rainbow of sprinkles that are iced with a rich vanilla buttercream frosting.
21. Apple cake
This apple upside down cake features an incredibly moist cake that is loaded with cinnamon and nutmeg, topped with a caramelized apple topping. This cake is simply irresistible.
22. Chocolate mousse cake
This triple chocolate brownie mousse cake is made with a brownie bottom, topped with a creamy eggless chocolate mousse, and topped with silky chocolate ganache.
23. Marble cake
Marble loaf cake is one of our favorite desserts to make because it's so beautiful and so delicious and we love the chocolate and vanilla combination!
24. Dark chocolate cake
This dark chocolate sheet cake is super moist, made in one bowl chocolate cake that is topped with dark chocolate buttercream frosting. This cake was made for us chocolate lovers.
25. Banana cake
This easy banana cake is sweet, super moist, soft, and just perfect! It literally melts in your mouth as it’s frosted with sweet cream cheese frosting and warmly spiced with cinnamon.
26. Lava cake
Rich delicious molten chocolate lava cakes are a chocolate lovers dream. Easy to make and ready in about 30 minutes for a special treat!
27. Pound cake
This pound cake recipe is made with eggs, butter, sugar, flour, and a few other everyday ingredients is the perfect staple dessert!
28. Chocolate biscuit cake
This no bake chocolate biscuit cake is made with digestive biscuits, homemade chocolate sauce, and topped with nuts.
29. White cake
This best white cake recipe yields a fluffy, snow-white cake that's light and soft but still sturdy enough to stack.
30. Vanilla cake
This 8 inch vanilla cake is made with 3 layers of tender, fluffy, and moist vanilla cake layers, topped and filled with a decadent vanilla buttercream that makes the perfect cake.
31. Angle food cake
The best angel food cake recipe! Made completely from scratch with all-purpose flour!
32. Chocolate chip cake
This chocolate chip loaf cake recipe makes the softest chocolate pound cake using the classic ratio of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
33. Cookies and cream cake
This Cookies and Cream Cake is a show-stopper with moist, fluffy white cake layers studded with large chunks of whole Oreo cookies, then frosted with the best Oreo buttercream frosting!
34. Pineapple upside-down cake
Pineapple Upside Down Cake is an old-fashioned recipe that is absolutely delicious with a buttery, moist crumb and sweetly caramelized fruit on top that makes for a beautiful presentation without a need for additional decoration!
35. Mug cake
We love this twist on chocolate mug cake. This Nutella mug cake is gooey, rich, chocolaty, soft, tender, and dreamy. When you’re in the mood for a decadent dessert, this easy mug cake comes in handy.
36. Hummingbird cake
Hummingbird cake is a flavorful cake made with bananas, pineapple, pecans and cinnamon. It’s topped with cream cheese frosting.
37. German chocolate cake
Moist layers of German Chocolate Cake slathered with the best homemade coconut pecan frosting ever are the hallmarks of this classic dessert!
📖 Recipe
37 Cake Recipes: Chocolate Cake & More
Ingredients
For the cake:
- 3 cups Flour
- ½ cup Cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoon Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 2 cups Granulated sugar
- 3 Eggs
- ¾ cup Vegetable oil
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- 1 cup Coffee hot
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
For the chocolate frosting:
- 450 g Butter
- 2 â…” cups Powder sugar
- â…” cup Cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 130 g Semisweet chocolate melted and cooled
For the chocolate whipped cream:
- 1 cup Heavy cream
- ¼ cup Cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- â…“ cup Powder sugar
For the chocolate ganache:
- 100 g Dark chocolate or semisweet
- 100 g Heavy cream
Instructions
For the cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180 (350f) and prep three 8-inch baking pans with parchment paper.
- Into a big bowl, add the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Mix well with a whisk until combined.
- Add the eggs, oil, vanilla extract, and buttermilk. Mix well until combined.
- Add the kosher salt and the hot coffee, mix well until the batter is smooth.
- Divide the mixture into three 8-inch baking pans, we suggest using cake strips for even baking. (weight the batter for better results) and bake in a preheated oven for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let the cake cool completely before frosting.
For the frosting:
- Make the chocolate frosting: into a large bowl add room temperature butter and mix with a hand mixer or a stand mixer until the butter is light and fluffy.
- Add half of the powder sugar and the cocoa powder and carefully mix until combined.
- Add the other half of the powder sugar and mix until smooth.
- Melt dark chocolate or semisweet chocolate and let it cool completely to room temperature.
- Add the melted chocolate to the mixture and mix until well combined and smooth.
Make the chocolate ganache:
- Melt dark chocolate and heavy cream in a small to medium mixing bowl in the microwave for about 50 seconds.
- Let the chocolate and the cream sit for 10 minutes for the chocolate to melt, then mix until the chocolate ganache is smooth and silky.
Make the chocolate whipped cream:
- In a cold big mixing bowl add the heavy whipping cream, sift the cocoa powder, and add the sugar and vanilla.
- Whip with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer until stiff peaks form. Make sure that you don't overmix the whipped cream so it won't turn into butter.
Assembly
- Pipe a small dollop of the frosting on the surface that you will frost on. Lay the first cake layer over the frosting dot.
- Top the first cake layer with â…“ of the buttercream and spread an even layer using a spatula. Repeat with the second cake layer, and top it with the third cake layer.
- Frost the cake with a very thin layer of buttercream, and place the cake in the freezer to set for 15 minutes. (this is the crumb coat)
- Remove the cake from the freezer and frost it with the remaining frosting and place it in the freezer for another 10 minutes to set.
- Pour the chocolate ganache over the cake and use a spatula to carefully push the ganache around the edges of the cake until a drip design forms.
- Make dollops of the chocolate whipped cream around the edges of the cake. We used a 1M piping tip.
Notes
- Use cake strips! Cake strips give you even and perfectly baked cake layers. Click here for the amazon link.
- Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs and butter. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly. you don’t want to place cold batter into the oven.
- Measure your flour correctly! When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it with a measuring cup. Instead, stir the flour with a spoon to create as many air pockets as possible, and spoon it into your measuring cup. Finally, level it with a back of a knife.
- Don’t overmix the batter, you don’t want to develop the gluten in the flour. This step ensures you have a moist cake and not a dense and dry cake.
- Line your baking pan with parchment paper! This step helps the cake to bake evenly, and it makes sure that your loaf cake will release easily from the pan.
- Be patient! I know it’s extremely tempting to frost these cakes as they are pulled out of the oven, but let the cake cool for at least 1 hour so it will be more firm and won’t crumble up, and prevent the frosting from melting.
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