76 Delectable Cakes to Amaze Your Taste Buds

Sharing is caring!

Last Updated on March 27, 2024 by Share My Kitchen

Who doesn’t love cake?! Cakes are a delicious, sweet treat that can be enjoyed on many occasions like birthdays or other family reunions. These Delectable Cakes will give you the right motivation to bake some masterpieces of your own. Get your ovens preheated now because these cakes will surely amaze you!

1. Dolly’s Donut Coconut Bundt Delectable Cake

To celebrate Goat Dolly Parton, what could be better than a delectable cake that looks like a giant pink donut? A giant pink donut-shaped cake that is also rich in the dark cocoa filling!

2. Lemon-Rosemary Tea Cake

Are you looking for something to go perfectly with afternoon tea? This cakey quick bread with a dollop of whipped cream or creme fraiche is a complete delight to have with your afternoon tea!

3. Speckled Malted Coconut Delectable Cake

Honestly, this cake is almost too beautiful to eat, but it is way too delicious to not have at least a slice.

4. Rosemary-Lemon Bundt Cake with Candied Rosemary

This lemony delectable cake is enriched with the piney flavor from rosemary.

5. Ginger Cake Squares with Chantilly Cream

These rich dark spiced squares will be perfect as a dessert after dinner. Even just a bite will be enough!

6. Spiced Pumpkin-Molasses Delectable Cake

This rich, dark delectable cake can be enjoyed any time of year. However, it is especially delicious around Halloween. You can also easily decorate it with powdered sugar and a simple stencil.

7. Chocolate-Cinnamon Marble Bread

This marbled chocolate bread is a great option for a quick and easy-to-bake dessert.

8. Coconut Angel Delectable Cake

It is an airy cake, which is as light as it can be. However, the toasted almonds make it rich in flavor.

9. Spring Daisy Lemon Layer Cake

This beautiful spring cake features a bright lemon flavor and mouth-watering buttercream frosting.

10. Duke’s Lemon Drop Sheet Delectable Cake

This one is for fruit dessert lovers! This citrusy cake is enhanced with a tangy creamy cream cheese frosting. And, lemon zest is its beautiful topping.

11. Almond and Poppy Seed Loaf Cake

Your old loaf pan is about to be used for something very exciting.

12. Raspberry Pink Velvet Cake with Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting

Move aside, red velvet! This pink velvet cake, which is raspberry inside and out, is the perfect spring dessert recipe. This cake would be perfect for Valentine’s Day, for a baby shower, or about any other time of the year.

13. Ukrainian Festive Walnut Torte

This recipe is a great resource to have on hand for special occasions. Although it takes a little extra effort, the results are well worth it.

14. Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Drizzle

This elegant bundt is perfect for those who love carrot cakes but don’t want to eat a lot of frosting. It is wonderfully moist and delicious.

15. Froot Loops Delectable Cake

Who says you can’t eat cake for breakfast? This is the perfect combination of breakfast and dessert. 

16. Towering Haunted House Cake

Are you ready to make everyone fear you for your cake-decorating skills? This magnificent beauty will be built using two 9-by-13 sheet cakes. Let’s see how great you are at this!

17. Retro Christmas Tree Cake

This old-fashioned, festive-looking cake can be ideally decorated with a tiny silicone mold that is shaped like a Christmas bulb.

18. Sour-Cream Vanilla Pound Cake with Rhubarb Compote

A rich, dense vanilla cake and sour cream complements a sweet-and tart rhubarb compote.

19. Vanilla Sheet Cake with Chocolate-Cinnamon Filling

This is not your typical sheet cake. It has a rich frosting and a crunchy chocolate filling.

20. Pistachio-Lemon Bundt Cake

They mean this one when they refer to “sweet greens,” right? Yes, well, this is the perfect way to describe it.

21. Toffee Crunch Cake

Now, you have an easy-to-make, delicious cake that can be made with chocolate-covered toffee bars. This cake is a crowd pleaser!

22. Apple-Cinnamon Layer Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting

This delicious confection includes the three essential ingredients for any layer cake: sugar, spice and a frosting.

23. Chocolate Chip Cake with Candied Pretzels

This delicious cake combines the best of both worlds: sweet and salty.

24. Orange Chiffon Cake

The citrus glaze, the delicate, light crumb, and, don’t forget, the cold, tart-enough ice cream on the side. This dessert may be considered “retro,” but honestly, it is just timeless.

25. “Stained Glass” Chocolate Chip Cake

The perfect “panes” on this cake are made from melted Jolly Ranchers.

26. Chocolate Brown Sugar Butter Cake with Spiced Pumpkin Frosting

A rich brown sugar cake can be made even more delicious with a little chocolate and a fall-spiced cream cheese frosting added to it. Pecan halves are also a delicious decorative garnish.

27. Pine Tree Forest Cake

For a simple but impressive display, create different sizes and colors for these sweet trees.

28. Spice Layer Cake

This gorgeous spice cake is a great festive, fall dessert.

29. Orange Blossom Bundt

You can make this Bundt cake up to two days in advance. And, the “heritage” baking pan is what gives it its shape.

30. Pumpkin Spice and Pecan Cake

Consider this: three large delectable cakes, nestled in a field of honey-spiced buttercream, and decorated with marzipan pumpkins. Wouldn’t that make a delicious and festive treat?

31. Toasted Pound Cake with Pears

With pears on the side, sweet pound cake is a delicious toasty delight.

32. Basic Chocolate Cake

This single-layer cake is adorned with a dark chocolate glaze. And, as they say, less is more.

33. Rich Chocolate Layer Cake

Two secret ingredients (mayonnaise, cocoa) make this cake moist and fluffy. Then, the irresistible filling is made when you combine packaged coconut and nuts with creamy frosting of chocolate.

34. Chocolate Spice Cake

This basic chocolate cake is flavored with a hint of coffee, and a variety of exotic spices blended together to add an unexpectedly delightful taste.

35. Hot Chocolate Meringue Cake

This is a delicious, easy-to-make cake that tastes like heaven.

36. Polenta and Pear Upside-Down Cake

Fine-ground polenta (also known as cornmeal) adds a pleasant delicate crunchy texture and golden color to this cake.

37. Chocolate Tea Cake

This velvety cake is made with dark brown sugar and cocoa, then decorated with a chocolate-almond glaze. It is perfect for any occasion.

38. Apple Cardamom Cakes

These mini apple delectable cakes are moistened and flavorful with applesauce, which does add any fat.

39. Chocolate Pumpkin Cake

This is not your ordinary chocolate cake. It’s made with cinnamon, pumpkin, and cream-cheese frosting. So, it will definitely please both children and adults.

40. Salted-Caramel Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

This is a sweet and salty cake that’s perfect for any occasion that’s coming up in the year.

41. Banana-Caramel Cake

It’s basically banana cake with caramel icing, so it’s heaven on a plate

42. Coconut Cake

This toasted coconut confection hides layers of rum syrup within it.

43. Lemon Cake with Almost Homemade Buttercream

This lemon cake is a delicious, zesty alternative to traditional vanilla. And, the buttercream uses a secret weapon: marshmallow cream.

44. Praline Turtle Cake

Praline Turtle Cake is an amazing cake topped with sinfully sweet fudge and pralines on every layer.

45. Almond Brown-Butter Delectable Cakes with Currants

It is a summery cake made with almond paste, red wine, and currants. And, it actually tastes delicious even just thinking about it.

46. Warm Chocolate and Caramel Cakes

This variation of our Basic Chocolate Cake features warm caramel sauce poured into a ramekin’s base to create a delicious gooey surprise.

47. Basic Vanilla Cake

Here you have a single-layer vanilla cake that is moist and delicious. It has a delicate texture with a delectable crumb. But, it’s the old-fashioned brown-butter glaze that gives it its nutty flavor. It is also wonderfully versatile.

48. Gianna’s Chocolate Whipped Cream Cake

The next cake on this list stands out thanks to its mini chocolate chips, anisette liqueur, and whipped cream frosting.

49. Deep Dark Chocolate Cake

A dark chocolate layer cake that is swathed in a frosting of bittersweet chocolate and marshmallow cream. It promises to make your every occasion delightful.

50. Old-Fashioned Jam Cake

Here you have a basic vanilla cake, sliced to make layers, then it is a party-perfect dessert. Just don’t forget to top it with fresh peach preserves, and sprinkle it with confectioners’ sugar.

51. Upside-Down Orange-Cranberry Cake

This cake makes a beautiful centerpiece thanks to its bright citrus and cranberries.

52. Lemon-Coconut Cake with Mascarpone Frosting

Make your cake shine like a centerpiece with fondant daisy flowers.

53. Sponge Cake with Chocolate Frosting

This five-layer dream of a cake is a perfect balance of moist cake and creamy frosting.

54. Nanny’s Full o’ Love Glazed Carrot Cake

A rich, decadent carrot cake coated in a sweet buttermilk glaze, then topped with traditional cream cheese frosting will surely make you excited!

55. Red Velvet Cake

This four-layer confection is made with vanilla icing and delicious red velvet cake.

56. German Chocolate Cake

Just one bite is all it takes to identify the unique crunchy-chewy filling (coconut and pecans) of this German Chocolate Cake.

57. Frozen Raspberry Layer Cake

The brightly colored cake will fool family and friends into thinking that a lot of effort was put into it. However, don’t fret, it can be easily made with store-bought raspberry syrup,  frozen pound cake, vanilla ice cream, and fresh raspberries.

58. Stacked Applesauce Cake

To sandwich the moist and spicy layers of these stacked cakes together, you just need a cool addition of cinnamon-flavored cream.

59. Quick Strawberry Cake

This moist cake with fresh strawberries and billows of cream is a great way to celebrate summer’s arrival.

60. Lemon-Blackberry Cake

It’s filled with blackberry jam with cassis, and then coated with lemon buttercream. This is a delicious treat that you will want to share with your whole family.

61. Maple Walnut Cake

Maple syrup is not just for pancakes. This all-American syrup is used to generously drizzle the frosting and these cake layers. It is definitely intended for those who just can’t get enough maple syrup flavor!

62. Coconut Cloud Cake

You can use a coating of buttercream or Italian meringue, simple contrast fillings between layers, or a combination of both to make the icing for this cake. This dreamy, lemon-filled cake combines tart and sweet.

63. Easy Chocolate Party Cake

This easy chocolate cake is faster to make than the “dump” recipe (meaning you just dump all ingredients in one bowl, mix, and bake).

64. Hot Chocolate Cake

This decadent chocolate cake is a combination of bittersweet chocolate and rich cocoa, then just add a touch of spicy cayenne pepper. It’s a warm choice for winter snacks.

65. Cocoa Cake

The moist, fluffy chocolate cake is topped off with a layer of sweetened whipped cream.

66. Crepe Cake

The dessert is deliciously different thanks to the alternating layers of chocolate pudding and wafer-thin crepes. Use a long, sharp knife to slice the cake. Then, cut in a smooth sawing motion. Between each cut, wipe the knife clean.

67. Pineapple Meringue Delectable Cake

Surrounded two fluffy layers of meringue with creamy pineapple filling.

68. Pumpkin Spice Cake

These layers of delectable cakes, which is cushioned with pumpkin cream cheese frosting, will make a lasting impression even before you taste it.

69. Boston Cream Pie Cake

Boston cream pie, which is actually a cake, was probably misnamed because Early American cooks baked it in pie pans. There was a lack of cake pans back then. This dessert, no matter what its name, is delicious as it’s filled with vanilla pudding and topped with chocolate glaze.

70. Honey Pound Delectable Cake

This cake can be made extra special if you use leatherwood honey with a deep-flavored flavor. Also, look for a pan that is unique, such as a pumpkin patch design.

71. Toasted Coconut Coffee Cake

This coffee cake can be served on a mid-morning break, or as a final treat for Sunday brunch.

72. Lemon Cakes with Berry Salsa

Take a look at these mini lemon delectable cakes with fresh strawberries. They are light and sweet, and the perfect light summer treat.

73. Baby Bundt Delectable Cakes

Finish these party-perfect delectable cakes can be topped with fresh berries and cream, ice cream and warm fruit preserves, butterscotch, grated orange zest, or a sprinkle of powdered sugar.

74. Cardamom Cake with Coffee Glaze

You might want to try this not-too-sweet dessert as a fresh take on coffee cake.

75. Pumpkin Goat Cheese Cheesecake

This reinvented cheesecake can be enjoyed all year round, not just during the holidays.

76. Strawberry-Limeade Delectable Cake with Strawberry-Cream Cheese Frosting

Enjoy spring with a dessert that is as fresh and fruity as your favorite beverage.

Sharing is caring!