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    Cake recipes

    Whether you want to make an easy chocolate chip bundt cake to serve a crowd or a festive chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting to celebrate a birthday, here are the best cake recipes for you to bake.

    If you are a new baker, please read about the mixing methods used in baking to make sure you understand how to combine your ingredients and make a beautiful cake.

    Find the best recipes to make simple one layer cakes, bundt cakes, and loaf cakes, to the more elaborate layer cakes.

    Note that most of the cakes on this site are baked in a 6-inch round cake pan, a large bundt pan, or square 8x8 or 9x9 pans. Browse through my favourite baking pans on my Amazon storefront.

    • Bundt cake recipes

    • Cupcakes

    • Financiers

    • Layer cakes

    • Loaf cakes

    • One layer cakes

    Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it

    Lemon loaf cake

    Oreo mug cake topped with whipped cream and crushed Oreo cookies.

    OREO mug cake

    Chocolate birthday cake with cream cheese frosting.

    Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting (eggless)

    Chocolate chip mug cake cooked directly in a mug and served with ice cream and chocolate sprinkles.

    Chocolate chip mug cake

    Pavlova cake filled with whipped cream, lemon curd, and raspberries being served.

    Pavlova

    Slice of chocolate loaf cake with a scoop of ice cream and fresh raspberries on a plate with a fork, with a striped linen tucked underneath.

    Chocolate loaf cake

    Framboisier cake

    Hot milk sponge cake cooling on a copper wire rack.

    Hot milk cake

    Banana split cake

    A slice of plum cake on a pink glass plate.

    Cake with plums

    Banana bread sliced on a cutting board.

    Banana bread without baking soda

    A slice of carrot cake layer cake with cream cheese frosting on a pale blue plate with a fork and striped linen napkin.

    Eggless carrot cake

    Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.

    Orange cranberry bundt cake

    Slices of pumpkin bread served on speckled plates with a cup of tea and green linen

    Perfect pumpkin loaf cake

    Sliced pumpkin cranberry bread on cooling rack being served with butter

    The best pumpkin bread with cranberries

    Sliced pumpkin bread on a wood cutting board

    Healthier pumpkin bread (eggless, dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)

    Bundt cake coated with shiny salted caramel sauce

    Apple bundt cake with salted caramel glaze

    Sliced black currant cake on parchment paper with a wood-handled knife to serve

    Black currant cake

    Rhubarb raspberry upside down cake on a parchment lined round black tray, cut into a few slices with a cake lifter under a slice

    Rhubarb raspberry upside-down cake

    Sliced vegan banana bread

    Eggless banana bread (dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)

    Banana bread 101: what can go wrong and how to make it right text overlaid on a freshly baked loaf of banana bread in a loaf pan

    How to make the best banana bread with tips & tricks for troubleshooting recipes

    Square chocolate cake topped with peanut butter frosting piped with a star tip, decorated with sprinkles and chocolate curls

    Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

    Slices of chocolate pound cake loaf cake flavoured with cinnamon and espresso, served on a cutting boards, slices topped with fresh raspberries

    Chocolate espresso pound cake

    Marble pound cake

    Easy chocolate marble loaf cake with sour cream

    Christina Tosi's compost pound cake rectangular loaf cake with potato chips, pretzels, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, oats, and coffee, on a small cooling rack on parchment paper

    Christina Tosi's compost pound cake

    Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife

    Apple crumble cake

    Single layer gluten free chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries

    Simple gluten-free chocolate cake

    Easy chocolate chocolate chip bundt cake sliced

    The best chocolate chip bundt cake with chocolate ganache

    Sesame kumquat financiers

    Sesame kumquat financiers

    marmalade pudding cakes

    Marmalade puddings

    Coffee banana cake flavoured with coffee and topped with milk chocolate frosting

    Banana cake with milk chocolate frosting

    unmolding orange rhubarb cakes with cornmeal from mini loaf cake pan

    Mini orange cornmeal cakes with rhubarb

    Sweet sesame layer cake with raspberries - this is a layer cake recipe flavoured with sesame butter (tahini), raspberries, and a little honey. Makes a beautiful birthday cake for adults.

    Tahini cake with raspberries

    Dust cranberry chestnut financiers with powdered sugar

    Cranberry chestnut financiers (gluten-free)

    SunGold kiwi coconut financiers | @ktchnhealssoul

    Sungold kiwi coconut financiers

    Rhubarb pumpkin seed cake after baking | kitchenhealssoul.com

    Moist rhubarb cake

    Cake slices of classic birthday cake: vanilla cake with chocolate frosting

    Vanilla cake and milk chocolate frosting

    Banana and cardamom buttermilk cake sliced

    Banana buttermilk loaf cake

    Cranberry cardamom cake with cream cheese frosting and sugared cranberries

    Cranberry cardamom cake with cream cheese frosting

    Cranberry chestnut loaf cake

    Frosted cranberry chestnut cake

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    Eggless chocolate cake

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    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

    Bake for Easter

    • Mini Eggs cookies cooling on a wire rack.
      Easy Mini Eggs cookies
    • Mini Egg bars cut into squares and served on small plates with a glass of milk on the side and a bowl of Mini Eggs.
      Mini Eggs blondies
    • Brownies decorated with Easter eggs cut into squares to serve.
      Easter brownies with Mini Eggs
    • Freshly baked carrot muffins being served on plates with butter.
      Moist carrot muffins
    • A slice of carrot cake layer cake with cream cheese frosting on a pale blue plate with a fork and striped linen napkin.
      Eggless carrot cake
    • Hot cross bun on a pink plate split open and served with butter.
      How to make hot cross buns for Easter weekend

    Bake with citrus

    • Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it
      Lemon loaf cake
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • Pavlova cake filled with whipped cream, lemon curd, and raspberries being served.
      Pavlova
    • Orange pie with saltine crust and topped with orange marmalade glaze.
      Orange pie
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange marmalade
    • A pink glass plate with lemon bars.
      Easy lemon bars

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!
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    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

    Bake for Easter

    • Slices of chocolate babka bread
      Dark chocolate babka for Easter
    • carrot focaccia with feta and almonds
      Carrot focaccia
    • Let's bake with carrots-
      What to bake with carrots
    • Button-shaped cookies - Honey flavoured cookies
      Honey sugar cookies (cut-out cookies)
    • carrot cake
      Glazed carrot cake

    Bake with citrus

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon shortbread cookies
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange cranberry bundt cake
    • Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.
      How to make lemon sugar
    • Drizzling lemon cranberry muffins on a wire rack with lemon icing.
      Cranberry lemon muffins
    • A scoop of lemon ice cream served on a speckled plate with a cone and a black spoon
      Lemon custard ice cream

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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