birthday cakes

birthday cakes
Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Brown Betty Bakery Coconut Cake

Dubbed Company’s Comin’ Coconut Cake, this beauty will have you dreaming up excuses to invite guests for dinner—and dessert.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 20 M
  • 4
Coconut Cake

Coconut Cake

Flaunting an ever-practical, always-stunning, goes-with-anything white, this froufrou coconut cake livens up holidays, dinner parties, bridal showers, weddings, birthdays, and Tuesday nights.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 28
Chocolate Torte

Chocolate Torte

This stunning Southern belle and its dozen tiers—yup, count ‘em, 12—is astonishingly easy peasy to make thanks to a savvy cake-baking tactic.

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  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 2 H
  • 19
Red Eye Devil's Food Cake

Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake

Even though it may be the devil’s work, this caffeinated incarnation of a classic isn’t so scary. It’s perhaps a little eye-opening, though, seeing as the layers of cocoa-inflected cake and fudgy ganache take their jolt of bittersweet from a pot of joe.

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  • 50 M
  • 2 H, 30 M
  • 18
Chocolate Bliss Layer Cake Recipe

A Blissful Chocolate Layer Cake

This layer cake maximizes the flavor of chocolate. Its buttery flavor and serious moistness makes the cake so delicious. The satiny chocolate frosting helps.

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  • 1 H, 10 M
  • 3 H, 40 M
  • 0
Vanilla Bean Cupcakes by Michelle Gayer Nicholson

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes

These vanilla-bean cupcakes are a personal cake. They say ‘just for you.’ They’re mini cakes-to-go with its own wrapper.

Chocolate Mocha Cake with Irish Whiskey

Chocolate Mocha Cake with Irish Whiskey

Mmmm. Mocha chocolate cake slathered with an Irish whiskey-laced chocolate icing. A decadent, grown-up cake if ever there was one.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H
  • 3
Almond Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote by Thomas Keller

Almond Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote

A gorgeous dessert, this almond cake has a rich, buttery flavor and toasted almond topping. Serve with strawberry-rhubarb compote or seasonal fruit.

Devil's Food Cake with Seven Minute Frosting

Devil’s Food Cake with Seven-Minute Icing and Coconut

Three layers of dark chocolate cake are filling and surrounded by a seven-minute frosting. The finish: sweetened coconut. This is a perfect birthday cake.

Walnut Torte with Whipped Cream

Three-Layer Walnut Torte with Whipped Cream

Want oohs and aahs at the table? Here’s your answer. Three layers of impossibly light and airy walnut cake. You’re welcome.

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  • 30 M
  • 50 M
  • 0
Red Velvet Cake by Jennifer Appel

Red Velvet Cake

This red velvet cake has a hint of cocoa and is dyed a deep red. The frosting is light and velvet smooth. Red velvet cake lovers, here is your cake.

Lady Baltimore Cake by Jennifer Appel

Lady Baltimore Cake

A classic cake. Vanilla cake layers are slathered with a coconut-almond-oatmeal-cookie filling and frosted with meringue topped with cherries.

Grand Marnier Chocolate Cake by Jill Prescott

Grand Marnier Chocolate Cake with Shiny Icing

If you like biting into a dense, dark, deadly chocolate cake with equally sinful chocolate icing, this is the dessert for you.

The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook

Coconut Layer Cake

Layers of vanilla cake alternate with a coconut filling and the whole thing is slathered with a fluffy white icing. Crowning touch: A coating of coconut on top.

Molten Chocolate Cake

Molten Chocolate Cake

Sometimes called a volcano cake, this much ballyhooed molten dessert is, quite literally, bursting–or rather, oozing–with chocolate.

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  • 30 M
  • 40 M
  • 42
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