The 50 All-Time Best Cake Recipes (2024)

Some people are cake people. Others are pie people. We’re happy to each both (even at the same time), but it’s hard to argue that pie could ever be as celebratory as cake. It goes hand in hand with celebrations. Birthday cakes. Wedding cakes. Graduation cakes.

Whether it’s the amount of work that goes into a beautiful layer cake or the sprinkling of confetti sprinkles atop a simple sheet cake, there’s just something exciting about a cake.

While most cakes are reserved for an occasion, we found 50 cakes that should be baked and eaten any time -- preferably, all the time, because life is too short to not eat cake. Here are the 50 all-time best cake recipes, go on and have a slice (or four).

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Half Baked Harvest

Better Together Chocolate Vanilla Birthday Cake

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How Sweet Eats

Tres Leches Confetti Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Coconut Pecan Caramel Butter Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Simple Chocolate Cake With Whipped Chocolate Buttercream

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How Sweet It Is

Easy Lemon Cake With Marshmallow Frosting

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Bakers Royale

Citrus Olive Oil Cake

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How Sweet It Is

No Bake Milk Chocolate Bailey’s Truffle Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Almond Honey Cake With Strawberry Ripple Cream

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How Sweet It Is

Chocolate Pound Cake With Bacon Bourbon Frosting

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i am baker

Neapolitan Cheesecake

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Bakingdom

Confetti Cake With Chocolate Filling And Vanilla Buttercream

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The Faux Martha

Carrot Cake With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

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Sweetapolita

Twinkie Bundt Cake

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Brown Eyed Baker

Coconut-Vanilla Bean Cake With Coconut Meringue Buttercream Frosting

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Leite's Culinaria

Pistachio Lover’s Pound Cake

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Sweetapolita

6-Layer Chocolate Sprinkle Cake

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Brown Eyed Baker

New York-Style Cheesecake With Fresh Strawberry Topping

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Brown Eyed Baker

Six-Layer Chocolate Cake With Toasted Marshmallow Filling And Malted Chocolate Frosting

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Life, Love & Sugar

Funfetti Millionaire Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Red Velvet Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes

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i am baker

Green Ombre Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

5-Ingredient Chocolate and Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake

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Pineapple & Coconut

Three Layer Pineapple Upside Down Cheesecake Cake

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How Sweet It Is

Chocolate Fudge Peanut Butter Cake

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Life, Love & Sugar

Sparkling Cranberry White Chocolate Cake

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Annie's Eats

Vanilla Caramel Latte Cake

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Apt. 2B Baking Co.

Orange-Almond Upside-Down Cake

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How Sweet It Is

Spiked Almond Joy Poundcake

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Sally's Baking Addiction

Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake

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Cooking Classy

Carrot Cake Cheesecake

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Life, Love & Sugar

Oreo Layer Cake

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James Ransom/Food52

Cold Oven Pound Cake

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Kitchen Confidante

Nutella Ganache Covered Cheesecake

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nannydeb/Food52

Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit Cake With A Hint Of Mint

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Hungry Rabbit

Pistachio Baklava Cake

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Annie's Eats

Yellow Butter Cake With Chocolate Frosting

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A Spicy Perspective

Mousse Cake

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Life, Love & Sugar

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Fudgy One-Bowl Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Pretzel Cake

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The Hungry Housewife

Blue Ombre Petal Cake

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Seasaltwithfood

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

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Half Baked Harvest

Meringue Encased Chocolate Mousse S’more Cakes

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How To: Simplify

Mini Fruit And Chocolate Bundt Cakes

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Cook Republic

Milk Bundt Cake

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Sugar Hero

Doughnut Layer Cake With Mocha Whipped Cream

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Handle The Heat

3-Layer Pistachio Cake

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Life, Love & Sugar

Nutella Chocolate Cake

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Becca Bakes

Cereal Supreme Cake

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Brown Eyed Baker

Meyer Lemon Pound Cake

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