Cake Recipes
Here is my collection of the very Best Cake Recipes! Whether you’re looking for the best Birthday Cake, a decadent Chocolate Layer Cake, a moist Red Velvet Cake, or a quick and easy Funfetti Sheet Cake, you’re bound to find your new favorite cake recipe below.
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Best Chocolate Cake
This is the BEST Chocolate Cake recipe—deeply chocolatey, ultra-moist, and easy to decorate, slice, and serve.
Spring Cake Recipes
Stunning Layer Cakes
Simple Birthday Cakes
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
This Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake recipe features a thick base of chewy and slightly gooey chocolate chip cookie topped with creamy vanilla buttercream and garnished with sprinkles. It's the perfect birthday cake for any cookie lover! -
Best Birthday Cake
Best Birthday Cake features a moist and fluffy cake, paired with rich and creamy milk chocolate buttercream. Perfect for celebrating!
Moist Bundt Cakes
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Chocolate Bundt Cake
Fudgy, rich, and moist, this Chocolate Bundt Cake is a surefire hit with any chocolate-loving crowd. It’s also super easy, with no stand mixer or decorating skills required. -
Lemon Bundt Cake
This Lemon Bundt Cake is ultra moist, tender, buttery, full of fresh lemon flavor and so easy to make. Topped with a simple lemon glaze. It's the perfect show stopping cake for any occasion!
Quick Cake Recipes
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Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Ultra rich, moist, and fudgy Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake is the perfect summer treat for any chocoholic and can be made in less than 1 hour! No mixer required. Tons of chocolate flavor! -
Banana Walnut Cake
Banana Walnut Cake is a ridiculously easy one layer ultra moist cake loaded with flavor and topped with a rich cream cheese frosting.
Delicious Coffee Cakes
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Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake
Pumpkin Spice Coffee Cake features a moist sour cream pumpkin cake loaded with brown sugar streusel and topped with a maple glaze. Super simple and SO delicious! 1-hour recipe. -
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake features moist, soft coffee cake studded with chocolate chips, layered with a heavenly brown sugar streusel. This coffee cake comes together in no time as the perfect easy treat for breakfast, dessert, or any time of day, no mixer required!
Frosting & Buttercream Recipes
How to Make Cake
With these helpful how-to articles, you’ll become a cake pro and never go back to store-bought cake.
How to Convert Cake into Cupcakes (and Cupcakes into Cake!)
Your ultimate conversion guide for how to convert a cake recipe into cupcakes (and your favorite cupcake recipes into cake)!
Bundt Cake Sticking to Pan? Here’s How to Prevent It
If you’ve ever flipped your bundt cake only to watch half of it cling stubbornly to the pan, you’re not alone. Bundt cake sticking...
How to Measure Flour
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ve probably seen me talk about the correct way to measure flour at one time or...
How to Prevent Cakes and Loaves from Sinking
There’s nothing more frustrating than spending time, energy, and money on a recipe only to have it not turn out correctly. This is especially...
Tessa’s Top Baking Tips
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Measure your flour correctly
The easiest ingredient to mis-measure is flour. That’s because it can be so easily compacted into a container or measuring cup without you even realizing. Too much flour in cake results in a dry, dense, and even crumbly cake instead of a tender and moist cake.
Check out my article for How to Measure Flour here.
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Use the correct kind of baking pan
Never use dark colored nonstick cake pans. They conduct heat too aggressively and often lead to hard dry edges and undercooked or sunken centers.
My favorite cake pans are the Fat Daddio’s pans.
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How to bake MOIST cake
It bears repeating: make sure to measure your flour correctly.
Avoid substituting any ingredients such as eggs, milk or sour cream. Eggs + egg yolks add richness and moisture. Sour cream tenderizes as well as adds more flavor to cake. Using whole milk will help to create a tender and moist cake as well – never use skim milk.
Also be sure not to overmix your cake. This can lead it to become rubbery and dense. At the final steps, mix JUST until combined.
How to Bake a Cake
Step into my kitchen and bake these easy cake recipes step-by-step with me. Plus, the best frosting ever and more baking tips!
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have to use cake flour in cake recipes that call for it?
Yes. That’s what helps create a tender cake.
Avoid DIY cake flour substitutions. They simply don’t work as well. Check out my Cake Flour 101 article here to understand why.
What are the best cake baking pans?
Never use dark colored cake pans. They tend to overcook the edges, making them too brown and dry.
My favorite cake pans are definitely my Fat Daddio’s pans. They bake evenly and clean up easily!
Are there high altitude adjustments for baking cake?
If you're baking at a high altitude, you'll likely need to make some adjustments to my cake recipes. Since I live at sea level, I can only recommend following the advice in King Arthur Baking's guide here.
How to decorate cake:
If you need help frosting and decorating a cake so it looks nice a pretty, check out my Easy Cake Decorating video in this post. The biggest tip I can give you is to freeze your cake layers before frosting so you can avoid crumbs or tears.
How to store cake:
Since frosting acts as a protective seal that keeps the cake moist and fresh, frosted cakes can be stored at a cool and dry room temperature for up to 2 days. Cover with a cake keeper to keep the frosting intact. Don’t use plastic wrap, which will not only ruin your frosting but also create condensation that can cause the frosting to separate.
I personally don’t worry about keeping frosting at room temperature since the sugar acts as a preservative, but if this concerns you then just keep the cake in the fridge.
