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Easy Cake Recipes

Browse all the tasty cake recipes we've baked for birthdays and special occasions for years. From simple 9 x 13 sheet cakes to easy tips for making your very first layer cake, you'll love wowing your family with these treats.

From the pretty Pink Lemonade Cake to my husband's favorite Orange Chocolate Chunk Cake to the sweetest little Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting you'll find the perfect fit!

A braided King Cake has been sliced to show the cinnamon swirl filling. It is decorated with purple, green, and yellow sprinkles.

Easy King Cake {Bread Machine}

A chocolate and cream Christmas yule log cake roll with sugared cranberries sits on a cake platter.

Make-Ahead Yule Log Cake

A square slice of tres leches cake is on a plate with a fork. You can see the three milks drizzling down the side of the vanilla cake and cinnamon is sprinkled on top of the whipped cream frosting.

Tres Leches Cake {Cake Mix OR From Scratch}

The almond crunch cake has candy crunchies and almonds on top. A slice is missing so you can see the light and airy sponge cake underneath.

Almond Crunch Cake

A square slice of apple cake topped with soft frosting and pecans sits in front of the metal baking pan it came from. A bite is missing.

Fresh Apple Cake

A square of almond cake with white almond icing is on a blue plate and topped with fresh strawberries. A fork is taking a bite.

Classic Almond Cake

A classic strawberry shortcake has been split in half with fresh berries and whipped cream.

Classic Strawberry Shortcake

A round white-frosted layer cake has Oreo cookies for eyes to look like Baymax from Disney-Pixar's Big Hero 6.

Baymax Cake for a Big Hero 6 Birthday Party

A cake pan is wrapped in a purple fabric cake strip and has a perfect level cake layer baked inside.

How to Use Cake Strips for Perfect Layers

A blue birthday cake has pink flamingo candles on top.

Adorable Tropical Flamingo Birthday Cake

A chocolate glazed bundt cake sits on a white cake plate with a blue robins egg decoration to the left.

Orange Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake

A square slice of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting sits on a blue plate with a pink fork.

Easy Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A square slice of strawberry kiwi cake shows the red Jello poke stripes, fluffy whipped topping, and has two thin slices of fresh kiwi on top for garnish.

Easy Strawberry Kiwi Cake

A pink birthday cake with sprinkles is on a cake stand with a butterfly.

How to Bake a Homemade Birthday Cake

A photo collage shows several easy birthday cakes for kids.

6 Incredibly Easy Ways to Decorate a Cake

A slice of coconut cake with cream cheese frosting and shredded coconut has a layer of bright yellow pineapple filling.

Pineapple Filling

A square slice of strawberry lemonade sheet cake with a fork taking a bite. The frosting is pale pink with little pastel sprinkles.

Strawberry Lemonade Cake

A two-tier cake plate has cute Halloween cupcakes in lavender polka dot wrappers. There is a dish of candy corn on the side.

3 Easy Halloween Cupcakes from 1 Box Mix

White Harry Potter cake covered in golden foil golden snitches.

Golden Snitch Harry Potter Cake

A Harry Potter "Monsters Book of Monsters" birthday cake has shaggy brown frosting like fur and a red tongue and googly eyes.

Monster Book of Monsters Cake

A birthday cake has been decorated to look like a paint palette with a paint brush on the side.

Paint Palette Birthday Cake

A slice is missing from a pink strawberry layer cake with aqua-tinted frosting. There are pastel sprinkles and a birthday pennant decorating the top of the cake.

Strawberry Birthday Cake

A light blue birthday cake has been decorated to look like an under the sea garden and has a yellow submarine on top.

Easy Beatles Birthday Cake

Adorable yellow Winnie the Pooh cake features tiny bees and several Pooh-themed cake picks on top.

Adorable Winnie the Pooh Cake

A slice of rainbow cake shows the 6 layers of colors next to a scoop of ice cream.

How to Bake a Rainbow Layer Cake

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