• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Start Here
  • Baking 101
  • Recipes
  • Shop

The Bake School

menu icon
go to homepage
  • Start Here
  • Baking 101
  • Recipes
  • Shop
  • Subscribe
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • subscribe
    search icon
    Homepage link
    • Start Here
    • Baking 101
    • Recipes
    • Shop
    • Subscribe
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • ×
    Home » Recipes

    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 Cakes

    • Cheesecake

    • Cupcakes

    • Financiers

    • Layer Cakes

    • Loaf Cakes

    • One-Layer Cakes

    • Serving a slice of a coffee-flavoured cheesecake with whipped cream piped around the border and chocolate-covered coffee beans.
      Coffee Cheesecake With Cardamom
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • Slices of moist rhubarb cake served on plates.
      Moist Rhubarb Cake
    • Serving coconut cakes topped with golden kiwi fruit slices
      Coconut Financiers With Sungold Kiwis
    • Hot milk sponge cake cooling on a copper wire rack.
      Hot Milk Cake (Easy Sponge Cake Recipe)
    • Raspberry layer cake on a terrazzo board.
      Framboisier Cake (Fraisier With Raspberries)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • Slicing and serving a perfect baked vanilla cheesecake.
      Baked Cheesecake
    • A plate of chocolate financiers ready to be eaten.
      Chocolate Financiers
    • A dark chocolate cupcake with pink frosting swirl.
      Chocolate Cupcakes With Raspberry Frosting
    • A slice of double chocolate banana bread on a plate.
      Chocolate Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Whole wheat pumpkin loaf cake topped with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting on a cutting board.
      Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Chocolate birthday cake with cream cheese frosting.
      Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting (Without Eggs)
    • A pile of fresh berries on top of a layer cake set on a cake stand.
      Berry Chocolate Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting (Eggless)
    • Apple cupcakes with cream cheese frosting on top and graham cracker crumbs.
      Spiced Apple Cupcakes With Thick Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Slicing and serving a honey cake with whipped cream and lavender on top.
      Lavender Honey Cake
    • Squares of maple cake topped with whipped cream on dessert plates with forks.
      Maple Cake With Cinnamon
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Slicing an orange cake with poppy seeds to serve it.
      Orange Poppy Seed Cake
    • Lemon loaf cake topped with lemon icing and fresh raspberries being sliced to serve it
      Lemon Loaf Cake
    • Chocolate pound cake sliced and served on dessert plates.
      Chocolate Coffee Pound Cake
    • 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 With Sour Cream
    • Fallen chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and berries being sliced and served.
      Gluten-Free Buckwheat Chocolate Cake
    • A layer of chocolate cake that has been levelled with a serrated knife to create a flat top.
      Eggless Chocolate Cake
    • Slicing a chocolate and vanilla marble cake on a cutting board.
      Marble Cake With Sour Cream
    • Slicing and serving a pumpkin bread with cranberries.
      Best Pumpkin Bread with Cranberries
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake
    • A slice of maple pumpkin bread on a dessert plate.
      Maple Pumpkin Bread
    • One layer banana cake topped with chocolate frosting with one piece cut.
      Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting
    • Apple bundt cake with salted caramel sauce.
      Apple Bundt Cake with Caramel Sauce
    • Slicing a blueberry crumb cake.
      Easy Blueberry Crumb Cake
    • trifle
      A taste of spring: Strawberry and apricot trifle
    • Banana and cardamom buttermilk cake sliced
      Banana Buttermilk Loaf Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • whoopie pie
      Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies With Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
    • sliced spice cake with cream cheese frosting
      Spice Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
    • A pink plate with pistachio financiers, one of them broken open to show the crumb.
      Pistachio Financiers
    • Mini matcha cakes on dessert plates.
      Easy Matcha Cake
    • A plate of raspberry financiers.
      Raspberry Financiers
    • Sliced pumpkin bread on a wood cutting board
      Healthier pumpkin bread (eggless, dairy-free, vegan, less sugar)

    Posts pagination

    1 2 3 Next page

    Primary Sidebar

    This is a picture of Janice Lawandi

    Hi, I'm Janice!

    I am a baking-obsessed recipe developer with a PhD in Chemistry who writes about baking and the science of baking.

    More About Me

    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    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!

    Baking conversions

    Buy the baking conversion charts NOW!

    As seen on

    Logos of online and offline publications that featured the Bake School and Janice Lawandi.

    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!

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    About

    • Meet Janice Lawandi
    • FAQ
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and conditions
    • Accessibility
    • Press

    Newsletter

    • Sign Up! for emails and updates

    Contact

    • Contact
    • Services
    • Portfolio

    As seen on

    Logos of online and offline publications that featured the Bake School and Janice Lawandi.

    As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    COPYRIGHT © 2026 · THE BAKE SCHOOL