18 Show-Stopping Cakes That Will Make You a Baking Legend!
Get ready to wow your friends and family with these 18 show-stopping cakes that will have everyone asking for your secret recipe! From elegant layers to jaw-dropping decorations, these cakes are perfect for any occasion. With a few simple tricks, you’ll be a baking legend in no time!
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Irresistible Sour Cream Coffee Cake loaded with a ribbon of cinnamon-sugar strudel running through the middle, crunchy pecans for some texture and scrumptious cinnamon-sugar crumb topping. Drizzled with sweet maple glaze this moist, tender and buttery coffee cake recipe is easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Coca Cola Cake
Moist chocolate Coca Cola Cake is a simple, old-fashioned Southern dessert that has experienced a resurgence in popularity thanks to Cracker Barrel restaurant and home bakers who love the nostalgia of vintage recipes. It’s rich and chocolatey with Coca-Cola in both the cake and the fudgy icing.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Three layers of decadent chocolate peanut butter cake frosted with peanut butter Swiss meringue buttercream and topped with dark chocolate ganache.
Butter Pecan Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting
Butter Pecan Cake with layers of tender and moist vanilla cake studded with crunchy buttery toasted pecans and frosted with rich and luscious homemade cream cheese frosting is the best! Get rid of the boxed cake mix and enjoy the flavors of this easy, made from scratch Butter Pecan Cake recipe!
Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake is a riff on my favorite (and award winning) Vanilla Pound Cake. The cake itself is a little lighter than most pound cakes, but with buttery flavor and in this case, a gentle lime flavor. Think key lime pie in cake form.
Lemon Blueberry Cake
This Lemon Blueberry Cake is bursting with bright lemon flavors and fresh juicy berries. This soft and moist layered lemon cake recipe is topped with the best creamy and luscious whipped mascarpone frosting.
Luscious Lemon Poke Cake
This Lemon Poke Cake is super easy to make and has a nice balance of sweetness and bright citrus flavor. This Poke Cake recipe is made with tender moist cake, luscious lemon curd pudding and it’s topped with sweet whipped topping.
Louisiana Stranger Cake (Caramel Pecan Bundt Cake)
This Louisiana Stranger Cake is an easy, extra moist, and unique bundt cake to take to a new neighbor, church pot-luck, or to freeze for a future party. It comes together with a box of cake mix and a can of frosting!
Easy Banana Cake Recipe with Frosting
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a moist cake bursting with banana flavor and topped with sweet brown butter cream cheese frosting.
Raspberry Poke Cake
Raspberry Jell-O Poke Cake is made with a white cake mix, raspberry jell-o and frozen whipped topping. A deliciously EASY dessert!
3-Layer S’mores Cake
This S’mores Cake is an over the top decadent dessert with layers of moist chocolate cake, graham cracker crust, chocolate ganache, and homemade marshmallow filling, all surrounded by a luscious buttercream frosting. It’s a scrumptious, irresistible twist on one of summer’s most iconic desserts!
No Bake Oreo Cheesecake
Oreo Cheesecake is a no bake masterpiece that is stuffed full of Oreo Cookies, with the classic cheesecake flavor. This Cheesecake is easy to make and easy to serve! It is neatly slice-able!
TIRAMISU ANGEL FOOD CAKE
Tiramisu Cake recipe consists of light airy layers of angel food cake, liquor infused espresso, creamy mascarpone filling, and topped with chocolate curls.
Chocolate Tres Leches Cake
Chocolate Tres Leches Cake is the indulgent chocolate version of the traditional Tres Leches Cake. Rich chocolate cake is soaked in a chocolate milk mixture made with three different kinds of milk, then topped with the most luscious chocolate whipped cream and chocolate shavings. Whether you’re celebrating a special occasion or just looking to satisfy your sweet tooth cravings, this easy Chocolate Tres Leches Cake is creamy, moist and melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
Caramel Apple Poke Cake
This Caramel Apple Poke Cake will be one of your favorite poke cake recipes! With plenty of apples, walnuts and caramel, this cake has all the best flavors of an apple pie wrapped up into one easy poke cake.
Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Caramel Coffee Cinnamon Frosting
Moist Pumpkin Sheet Cake with a caramel, coffee, cinnamon frosting. This sheet cake is so easy, feeds a crowd, and is best made in advance. What more could you want?
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
Brown Sugar Pound Cake is basically the tasty cousin of a traditional pound cake. The brown sugar changes the flavor of this recipe in all the right ways.
Pink Champagne Cake
This Pink Champagne Cake recipe has a moist, tender crumb, is infused with sparkling champagne and covered with creamy vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream frosting. This irresistible layered champagne cake is the ultimate dessert for any celebration!
