Lots of quick and easy homemade birthday cake ideas for kids (boys and girls) and adults (men and women). Decorate with colorful frosting, candies, fondant or store-bought toppers.
When it comes to the most special day of your life, you need to celebrate with the Best Birthday Cake ever! It's basically a chocolate overload cake with chocolate buttercream frosting that's covered in your favorite candies. Whether you are a kid or an adult, that cake is sure to be a winner. However, there are always other options which are broken down into separate categories below.
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- What is the best flavor cake for birthday?
- How far in advance can you make homemade birthday cake? (Storage)
- Men and boys birthday cakes
- Sophisticated women and girls birthday cakes
- Kids birthday cakes (boys and girls)
- What can you have instead of a birthday cake? (Unique birthday cakes)
- Classic birthday cake flavors
What is the best flavor cake for birthday?
This truly depends on the birthday boy or girl. What is their favorite flavor? After all, it's their special day. The most common cake is a simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.
How far in advance can you make homemade birthday cake? (Storage)
Most of these cakes can be made 1-2 days in advance. However, they should be stored properly until you are ready to serve. Fruit fillings or cream cheese fillings are perishable and can go bad quickly and thus, cakes with those fillings should be refrigerated until you are ready to serve.
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Men and boys birthday cakes
Easy Lord of the Rings Cake (Sauron Eye Cake)
Easy Lord of the Rings cake (LOTR cake), homemade with simple ingredients. This Sauron Eye cake is chocolate flavored and decorated with colored buttercream frosting. No fondant necessary!
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Easy Pokemon Cake (Pokeball Cake)
Learn how to make easy Pokemon cake from scratch with simple ingredients. This homemade pinata Pokeball cake is decorated with buttercream icing and filled with toys and sprinkles.
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Easy Emoji Cake (Poop Emoji Cake)
Easy emoji cake recipe (poop cake), homemade with simple ingredients without fondant. Chocolate cake is covered in chocolate frosting and chocolate shavings.
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Tie Dye Cake (Shirt Cake)
Learn how to make a tie dye cake (shirt cake), using this step-by-step tutorial. Easy to make with rainbow colored frosting and toothpicks! Great for Father's Day!
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Star Wars Birthday Cake
Easy Star Wars cake recipe and tutorial (Death Star cake)- Homemade with simple ingredients. It’s a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream and decorated in marshmallow fondant.
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Erupting Volcano Cake
Easy erupting volcano cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Make it erupt with dry ice to create smoke and add dinosaurs for a fun birthday cake.
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Easy Construction Cake (Excavator Cake)
Easy construction cake or excavator cake, homemade with simple ingredients. This birthday cake is composed of two tiers of chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, candies, Oreos and toy trucks create a construction site.
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Easy Treasure Chest Cake (With Kit Kat)
Easy DIY homemade pirate treasure chest cake with Kit Kat chocolate, gold and silver candies. No fondant necessary. Only simple ingredients. Great for boys birthday parties.
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Easy Dinosaur Cake (Birthday Dino Cake)
Easy dinosaur cake (dino cake), homemade with simple ingredients. This DIY birthday cake is composed of two tiers of chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, candies, crushed Oreos and toy dinosaurs to create a faux Jurassic Park world.
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Easy Birthday Sushi Cake
Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade birthday sushi cake with fondant, pound cake, icing, candies. Great for April Fool's Day dessert.
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Easy Karate Cake (Black Belt Cake)
Learn how to make easy karate cake that's homemade with simple ingredients. This black belt cake is decorated with buttercream icing and fondant. Recipe and step by step tutorial are both included.
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Pretzel Cake
This easy pretzel cake is a tall double layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and covered in pretzels and then topped off with chocolate peanut butter balls.
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Chocolate Coffee Cake
The best soft, moist, quick and easy chocolate coffee cake recipe from scratch, homemade with simple ingredients. Loaded with chocolate frosting and espresso ganache.
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Chocolate Guinness Cake (Beer Cake)
Easy, moist homemade chocolate Guinness cake recipe (beer cake), starts off with chocolate cake mix. Full of chocolate frosting, ganache.
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Chocolate Popcorn Cake
This rich and decadent chocolate popcorn cake with chocolate buttercream icing is great for birthday parties! It's easy to make with simple ingredients.
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Pull Apart Football Cupcakes Cake
Easy pull apart football cupcakes cake, homemade with simple ingredients. Serve them at a fun football party and enjoy the big game, along with a dessert table full of candies, cookies, marshmallows.
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Father's Day Cake (Tool Box Cake)
Learn how to make easy homemade Father's Day cake (tool box cake) with simple ingredients. This chocolate beer cake is covered in chocolate frosting, fondant and decorated with edible handyman tools.
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Easy Shirt Cake
Learn how to make easy shirt cake, homemade with simple ingredients and supplies. This round cake is decorated in fondant. Perfect for Father's day or Dad's birthdays.
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Sophisticated women and girls birthday cakes
Many of these ideas incorporates flowers- fresh blooms or ones made with fondant, gum paste, modeling chocolate or even wafer paper.
Easy Buttercream Rosette Cake
Easy rosette cake design and recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Easy cake decorating technique, using just the star tip and colorful buttercream icing.
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Fondant Basket Cake (Basketweave)
Learn how to make easy fondant basket cake. Filled with circular cakes, frosting and topped with fondant flowers. Use as cake topper or enjoy as is!
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How to Make Naked Cake
Use this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to make a naked cake with buttercream icing, fruits and flowers. Great for weddings and parties!
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Easy Cake Tower
Easy cake tower recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Slices of pound cake are stacked and decorated with pink buttercream icing and fondant flowers.
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Easy Ombre Cake (Blue)
Learn how to make easy ombre cake recipe from scratch. This technique involves gradual change in color of frosting, fondant, cake batter from dark to light.
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Buttercream Ruffle Cake
Use this quick and easy cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make buttercream ruffle cake with just Tip 104. Perfect for Valentine's day parties!
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Fondant Bows
Learn how to make easy fondant bows with no cutters, using this step by step tutorial. Super cute for decorating cakes and cupcakes.
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Easy Cereal Cake
Use this step by step cake decorating tutorial to make an easy cereal cake. It's homemade with simple ingredients. Perfect for kids birthday parties.
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Easy Fondant Roses (Ribbon Roses)
Learn how to make fondant roses (ribbon roses) with step by step tutorial. Quick, easy, homemade with simple ingredients. Great for decorating cakes!
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Fondant Flower Cake
Learn how to make easy fondant flower cake with a polka dot design, using basic tools and cutters. It's great for girls birthday parties or even Spring or Summer wedding parties.
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Chocolate Bark Cake
Learn how to make this quick and easy chocolate bark cake. An easy cake decorating technique for Valentine's day, Weddings, Anniversaries, birthday parties.
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Pink Velvet Cake (From Scratch)
Soft, moist, easy pink velvet cake recipe from scratch, homemade with simple ingredients. Paired with strawberry frosting and fresh strawberries. Perfect for Valentine's Day.
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Easy Love Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make an easy Love cake for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or Anniversaries with fondant, sprinkles, edible markers.
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Mini Love Letter Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make easy mini love letter cake. Great for Anniversaries or Valentine's day and can be used as Wedding party favors.
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Chocolate Marshmallow Cake (Heart Cake)
Quick and easy chocolate marshmallow cake recipe. This soft and moist heart cake with strawberry frosting and pink marshmallows is perfect for Valentine's day.
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Easy Flower Cupcake Bouquet
Learn how to make easy flower cupcake bouquet with frosting. This pull apart floral cupcake cake is great for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day parties.
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Easy Buttercream Flowers Cake (Russian Piping Tips)
Use this tutorial to learn how to make buttercream flowers for cakes and cupcakes, using Russian piping tips. Simple and easy cake decorating technique!
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Easy Wafer Paper Flowers
Use this step-by-step tutorial to make easy wafer paper flowers. Ready in just 5 minutes! Great for decorating cakes and cupcakes!
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Easy Fondant Flowers
Learn how to make easy fondant flowers with this step-by-step tutorial. Great for decorating cakes and cupcakes. No fancy tools or cutters needed. Easy enough for beginners!
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Kids birthday cakes (boys and girls)
Easy Monster Cake
Quick, easy, furry monster cake tutorial and recipe, homemade with simple ingredients and decorated with orange frosting. Great for Halloween parties!
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Easy Butterfly Cake (Recipe and Tutorial)
Use this step by step cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make an easy butterfly cake. It requires simple supplies and is great for Spring/ Summer birthday parties.
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Easy Twins Birthday Cake
Learn how to make easy twins birthday cake with two peas in a pod fondant topper. No fancy tools required. Also great for baby showers.
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Easy Cookie Monster Cake (Sesame Street Cake)
Quick and easy cookie monster cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This sesame street themed chocolate cake is decorated with black and blue buttercream icing and chocolate chip cookies.
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Easy Rainbow Cake (With Cake Mix)
Easy rainbow cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with cake mix! Soft and moist cake layers are filled with whipped cream and topped off with sprinkles and colorful candies.
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Easy Cotton Candy Cake (With Cake Mix)
Easy cotton candy cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with yellow cake mix. This layer cake is filled with whipped cream frosting and decorated with rainbow cotton candy.
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Easy Galaxy Cake
Quick and easy DIY galaxy cake with lots of sprinkles. This galaxy birthday cake is fun, colorful and perfect for kids' space themed parties.
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Easy Beach Cake
Use this step by step tutorial to make an easy beach cake that's perfect for Summer. It's decorated with homemade chocolate seashells and brown sugar sand.
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Easy Watermelon Cupcakes (Pull Apart Cupcakes)
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make quick and easy watermelon cupcakes with buttercream frosting. Great pull apart cupcakes for Summer parties!
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Easy Bumblebee Cake (Spring Cake)
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make easy bumblebee cake. This Spring cake is homemade with simple ingredients. Additional decorations with edible markers and fondant flowers also included.
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Easy Easter Lamb Cake
Easy Easter lamb cake without mold, homemade with simple ingredients. Covered in white buttercream icing and mini marshmallows. Step by step tutorial included.
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Easter Bunny Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make a quick and easy Easter bunny cake. All the details are made with candies and shredded coconut. No special tools or fondant needed!
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Turkey Cake (Thanksgiving Cake)
Learn how to make a homemade turkey cake with simple ingredients and tools. This showstopper Thanksgiving cake is pumpkin flavored and decorated with fondant and icing.
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Easy Snowman Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to learn to make easy snowman cake with fondant. Fun to make with kids for Winter/ Christmas parties and birthday parties.
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Easy Pig Cake
Easy pig cake without any mold or special cake pan, homemade with simple ingredients. Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and ganache is wrapped with Kit Kats and decorated with fondant pig toppers.
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Easy Penguin Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make an easy penguin cake with buttercream icing. Perfect for Winter/ Christmas parties and birthday parties.
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Easy Easter Bunny Cake Topper
Use this quick and easy cake decorating tutorial to make Easter bunny cake topper with marshmallow fondant. Great for Easter parties. No fancy tools needed!
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Rainbow Sprinkle Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make an easy rainbow sprinkle cake. Colorful vanilla cake is covered in frosting, sprinkles and a fondant rainbow topper.
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Easy Peeps Cake (Easter Cake)
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make quick and easy Peeps cake. This Easter cake is decorated with marshmallows, sprinkles, frosting.
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Pinata Cake (Robin Egg Cake)
Learn how to make easy pinata cake or Easter robin egg cake filled with robin chick candies. It's homemade with simple ingredients and so fun!
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Easy Halloween Eyeball Cake
Learn to make an easy eyeball cake in this step-by-step tutorial. Great for serving at Halloween parties or make mini cakes as party favors.
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Halloween Mummy Cake
Easy mummy cake, homemade with simple ingredients. Decorated with buttercream icing and candies. Great Halloween cake for parties.
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Easy Peacock Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make peacock cake and cupcakes with fondant feathers. Perfect for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays.
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Easy Pencil Cake (Back to School Cake)
Learn how to make easy pencil cake (back to school cake). All you need is vanilla cake and different colors of buttercream icing. No fancy tools needed!
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Easy Shoe Cake (Fondant Baby Shoes)
Easy shoe cake or sneaker cake with step by step tutorial and template. This fondant baby shoes topper is perfect on round cake decorated with fondant and gum paste. Serve at baby showers or kids birthday parties.
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What can you have instead of a birthday cake? (Unique birthday cakes)
Oreo Cookies and Cream Cake Recipe
Quick and easy no bake Oreo cookies and cream cake recipe or cookie tower, homemade with simple ingredients. Loaded with Oreos, buttercream, chocolate.
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Fresh Watermelon Cake
Learn how to make a quick and easy watermelon cake recipe that's fresh, no bake, healthy, beautiful and perfect for Summer parties, birthday parties or even weddings.
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Easy Waffle Cake Recipe
Quick and easy easy waffle cake recipe with peanut butter, syrup and fresh fruits. This can also be served as a waffle birthday cake or waffle wedding cake.
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Easy Rustic Cake (Tiered Cake)
Learn how to make tiered rustic cake for Autumn weddings, Fall birthdays or Thanksgiving parties, using gourds, pumpkin seeds and edible sprays!
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Chocolate Tree Cake
Quick and easy chocolate tree cake with colorful leaves, homemade with simple ingredients. Perfect for Fall, Autumn, Thanksgiving parties.
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Kit Kat Cake (With Strawberries)
Quick and easy Kit Kat cake recipe with fresh strawberries, homemade with simple ingredients. This easy cake decorating idea is perfect for birthdays.
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Easy Cookie Cake (With Cake Mix)
The best quick and easy chocolate chip cookie cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Rich, soft, chewy and decorated with chocolate frosting and sprinkles.
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Easy Ice Cream Cake
Easy ice cream cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. This decadent layer cake is composed of two layers of chocolate cake, sandwiched between a layer of ice cream. Then, it’s covered in whipped cream and decorated with sprinkles.
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Easy Pavlova Recipe
Learn how to make easy homemade pavlova recipe from scratch with simple ingredients. It's always light and airy on the inside and crispy on the outside.
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Easy Funnel Cake
Quick, easy, homemade funnel cake recipe, made with simple ingredients in 30 minutes. No funnel necessary! Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.
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Chocolate Cake Roll (With Cake Mix)
Easy chocolate cake roll recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. Starts off with Devil's food cake mix. Filled with buttercream icing, topped with rich and creamy espresso chocolate ganache and fresh raspberries.
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Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake
This delicious raspberry mousse cake is composed of 4 layers: Vanilla cake, Raspberry mousse, Chocolate ganache, Fresh fruit decorations. Beautiful dessert for special occasions!
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Classic birthday cake flavors
Strawberry Shortcake Cake (With Cake Mix)
The best, classic, easy strawberry shortcake cake recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. This layer cake is composed of soft and moist vanilla cake, sweet and juicy fresh strawberry filling and fluffy whipped cream.
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Easy Black Forest Cake (With Cake Mix)
Quick and easy black forest cake recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft, moist chocolate cake with cherry filling and whipped cream.
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Chocolate Caramel Cake
The best, classic, old fashioned, quick, easy chocolate caramel cake recipe, homemade with simple ingredients from scratch. Soft, moist with caramel icing.
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Moist Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This spiced soft and moist carrot cake recipe from scratch with cream cheese frosting is easy to make with simple ingredients. Perfect Easter dessert.
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Easy Pumpkin Cake (With Cake Mix Box)
The best, soft, quick and easy pumpkin cake recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. Paired with cream cheese frosting.
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Best Vanilla Cake Recipe
This classic, old fashioned, quick and easy vanilla cake recipe from scratch with simple ingredients is soft, moist and fluffy. Great with vanilla frosting.
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Chocolate Cake
Super easy, moist and best triple chocolate cake recipe from scratch, homemade with simple ingredients! Loaded with cocoa powder and coffee. This is the ultimate one bowl cake and pairs perfectly with chocolate frosting.
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German Chocolate Cake (With Cake Mix)
Easy German chocolate cake recipe with cake mix, homemade with simple ingredients. Soft and moist chocolate cake layers are filled with coconut pecan frosting and topped with chocolate ganache.
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Easy Chocolate Oreo Cake Recipe
Easy chocolate Oreo cake recipe from scratch filled with Oreo buttercream frosting and topped off with chocolate ganache. Perfect soft, moist birthday cake!
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Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe
The best, easy, moist homemade red velvet cake recipe from scratch requires simple ingredients. Soft and moist. Pairs well with cream cheese frosting or chocolate icing.
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Homemade Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Quick and easy homemade pineapple upside down cake recipe rom scratch. It's soft and moist with a golden caramelized top layer. Best classic cake ever!
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