20 Mouthwatering Homemade Cake Recipes - The Best Homemade Cakes! (2024)

By: Beyond Frosting

Published: Nov 10, 2022

Luscious Homemade Cake Ideas

I’ve shared dozens upon dozens of cake recipes over the years. This time, I’ve hand-picked 20 of my all-time most popular cakes that I’m sure you’ll love just as much as I do! These cake ideas are easy to make, yet totally impressive, and always SO mouthwateringly delicious.

This collection includes classics like chocolate layer cakes, moist vanilla cakes, and even a retro yellow cake. You’ll also find some fun, fab cake flavors from blueberry to lemon and coconut. Plus, I’ve included a few baking tips and tricks below to ensure that these cakes come out absolutely perfect!

Whether you’re new to baking or a seasoned home baker, these are seriously the best cake recipes that everyone can bake and enjoy.

Why You’ll Love These Recipes

So, what makes these my best-ever cake recipes?Let’s dive in:

Easy recipes. You don’t need to be a professional cake-maker to bake up the dessert recipes below. These are tasty, eyecatching cakes that come together with easy ingredients and straightforward directions.
Suited for any occasion. Whether you’re celebrating a birthday, or holiday, or simply craving cake (we’ve all been there, honestly), you’re bound to find a perfect cake recipe for the occasion!
The best flavors. From peanut butter to chocolate, vanilla to Oreo, plus lemon, strawberry, and more – these cakes are brimming with the best flavor combinations around.

Cake Baking Tips

Before we get into some delicious cake recipes, here are some helpful hints and baking tips for homemade cakes:

Use room temperature ingredients. Ingredients such as eggs, butter, and cream cheese will mix more easily and bake more evenly when they’re not chilled from the fridge. Unless a recipe specifies otherwise, it’s almost always a good idea to take your ingredients out of the fridge ahead of time, to let them warm to room temperature.
Measure ingredients correctly. This is especially true when it comes to ingredients like flour. For best results, measure using the spoon and sweep method: spoon the flour into your measuring cup, then level it off with a knife. Never scoop the flour directly from the bag using the measuring cup, as this is a surefire way to add too much flour to your cakes!
Don’t overmix the batter. If your cakes come out dense and tough, instead of moist and fluffy, there’s a good chance that overly mixed batter is the culprit. Make sure to gently fold the ingredients together until evenly combined, and avoid excessive mixing or beating.
Follow the recipe! This may seem like a given, but it’s true! We bloggers have gone to great lengths to test, trial, and get the very best results from our cake recipes. We’ve done the work, so you don’t have to! Follow the recipes exactly as directed and you’ll be smooth sailing.

20 Easy Cake Recipes to Try

Without further adieu, let’s get into these perfect homemade cakes!

Easy Chocolate Drip Cake

You need to try my best-ever chocolate cake recipe! This cake is a triple threat made with three moist and tender chocolate cake layers, chocolate buttercream frosting, and a fudgy chocolate ganache drip. It’s honestly a chocolate lover’s dream wrapped up in a homemade cake!

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Oreo Cookies and Cream Cake

It’s an Oreo overload! This cookies-and-cream cake is made from moist vanilla cake layers brimming with crushed Oreo cookies, separated by a rich and fudgy chocolate filling. But why stop there? This cake is finished with Oreo buttercream frosting and a chocolate glaze, too –you’re welcome!

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Moist Vanilla Layer Cake

Everyone needs a favorite vanilla cake recipe, and this one is mine. This perfect vanilla cake is oil-based and frosted with a simple, homemade vanilla frosting. The crumb is so insanely moist and fluffy!

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Sweet Potato Cake

A spiced sweet potato cake with bourbon salted caramel frosting. If you love carrot cake, try this recipe. It’s moist with a tender crumb filled with chunks of sweet potato and walnuts. You’ll love every bite!

Chocolate Strawberry Cake

Aren’t chocolate and strawberries just the most romantic combination? This dessert brings the two together in an easy chocolate cake layered with zesty strawberry filling and fluffy chocolate buttercream.

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Classic Yellow Cake

This classic yellow birthday cake with chocolate frosting is the best way to skip the boxed cake mix! With the option to make this recipe as a cake or as cupcakes, your next birthday celebration is sorted.

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Lemon Blueberry Cake

This lemon blueberry cake is the ultimate summertime dessert! Fresh blueberries dot the light and fluffy lemon cake layers, separated by zesty lemon curd and homemade whipped cream. Topped with lemon mascarpone frosting, the whole thing just melts in your mouth.

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Fruity Pebbles Poke Cake

If you love Fruity Pebbles, this poke cake recipe is for you! AFruity Pebble Cakeis a delicious vanilla cake, soaked in sweetened condensed milk and topped with a homemade Fruity Pebble Whipped Cream! There’s Fruity Pebble cereal in every layer.

Chocolate Mocha Cake

Delicious flavors of, coffee, and chocolate combine in this surprisingly easy but oh-so-impressive mocha layer cake! I love everything about this recipe, from the to the espresso buttercream, right down to the fudgy coffee-infused cake layers.

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Strawberry Mascarpone Layer Cake

If you love strawberries and cream, you’re going to LOVE my strawberry mascarpone cake! This dessert is made from simple homemade vanilla cake layers filled with fresh strawberries and mascarpone whipped cream.

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Cherry Almond Bundt Cake

Take your traditional pound cake to a whole new level with this easy bundt cake recipe bursting with sweet-tart cherry pie filling! This cherry almond cake is perfect for special occasions and easy enough to make for everyday indulgence.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chocolate and peanut butter lovers are almost guaranteed to be blown away by this fudgy chocolate layer cake with creamy peanut butter frosting. The flavor combination is a little sweet, and a little salty, finished off with chocolate ganache and peanut butter cups!

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Moist Vanilla Cake

Nothing beats a forkful of this moist and easy vanilla cake, topped with simple and delicious vanilla buttercream. Whether you’re planning a celebration or craving something sweet, this classic cake recipe has you covered.

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Better Than Sex Cake

Talk about a cake recipe that lives up to its name! This homemade better-than-sex cake is the ultimate combination: chocolate cake, caramel filling, fluffy whipped cream, and a generous drizzle of caramel to top it all off.

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Rainbow Cake

Have you ever seen such a colorful cake? This homemade rainbow cake is fun (and easy!) to make for birthdays and celebrations, filled with bright hues and decorated with dyed vanilla buttercream.

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Chocolate Oreo Cake

Another Oreo cake to fall totally in love with! This is an easy homemade chocolate cake recipe, layered with Oreo frosting and decorated with loads of Oreo cookies and even more chocolate.

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Marble Cake

This isn’t your retro boxed marble cake, this homemade version is SO MUCH better! If you’ve never tried your hand at making a marble cake from scratch, you need to give this recipe a try. It’s made from moist chocolate and vanilla cake swirled beneath whipped chocolate buttercream.

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Chocolate Mousse Cake

Who else loves a chocolate overload? This chocolate cake is topped with a layer of fluffy chocolate mousse, chocolate ganache, and chocolate whipped cream. You’ll knock your family’s socks off with how impressive yet easy this cake is!

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Homemade Funfetti Ice Cream Cake

This homemade ice cream cake was made for birthday parties! A double-layer funfetti cake is filled with creamy cake batter ice cream and frosted with airy whipped cream in this fun cake recipe.

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Oreo Ice Cream Cake

This easyOreo Ice Cream Cake is made with layers of chocolate cake and no-churn Oreo ice cream with chocolate ganache on top. It’s simple to customize this with your own favorite flavors