Celebrate your birthday with one of these amazing Birthday Cakes! From chocolate to fruity and everything in between, there’s a cake for you!
It’s February and that means Aubrey’s birthday is coming up! I decided to celebrate this year with a big old round-up of birthday cake ideas for her! These 25 Birthday Cake recipes range from chocolate cakes to fruit-filled to cake batter flavored treats that aren’t cakes at all!
There are enough birthday cake ideas here to last the next 25 years! (Unless you’re like Aubrey and celebrate with donuts!) All you have to do is decide which one to make first.
25 BIRTHDAY CAKES TO CELEBRATE ANOTHER YEAR
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Chocolate Cakes
Chocolate birthday cakes are a go-to at my house, and these cakes are sure to impress your party guests, and satisfy that chocolate craving!
Chocolate Overload Cake
So much chocolate, so little time! This cake is truly a chocolate lover’s dream come true… moist, rich chocolate cake, chocolate chips, and fudgy chocolate icing dusted with chocolate shavings. It’s an overload of chocolate!
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Black Forest Cake
This delicious black forest cake features luscious chocolate cake layers soaked in a cherry brandy syrup all covered in whipped cream and shaved chocolate. It's a light and perfectly sweet German dessert that is easy to make and a chocolate-lover's dream!
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Chocolate Oreo Cake
This Chocolate Oreo Cake recipe is to die for! A moist chocolate cake full of Oreo icing! And not just any Oreo icing – it is FULL of crushed up Oreos. An Oreo lover’s dream!
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Turtle Chocolate Layer Cake
This Turtle Chocolate Layer Cake starts with rich, decadent and moist chocolate cake layers that are filled with a caramel pecan sauce and covered in a smooth caramel frosting, then finished off with a caramel and ganache drip and chopped pecans!
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Ultimate S’Mores Cake
This cake combines s’mores, cookies, cake, frosting, and cheesecake for the ultimate birthday cake! The plate is guaranteed to be licked clean!
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Poke Cakes
Keep your birthday cake fun and delicious with these SUPER easy to make poke cakes!
Butterfinger Cake
Butterfinger Cake is a delicious and sweet dessert, perfect for birthdays or any occasion, and is a big crowd pleaser!
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Chocolate Mint Poke Cake Recipe
The best, rich chocolate cake, creamy chocolate pudding, and light mint cheesecake topping! Perfect for all occasions, guaranteed to be a hit with your chocolate and mint loving friends and family!
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Cherry Vanilla Coke Poke Cake
Coca-Cola mixed with cherry gelatin makes this rich vanilla cake full of flavor in every bite in this Cherry Vanilla Coca Cola Poke Cake recipe!
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Better Than Sex Cake
Easy, chocolatey and delicious this Better Than Sex Cake is an addicting dessert that is a crowd favorite and a staple at potlucks and gatherings!
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Unicorn Poke Cake
Taste the rainbow with this super cute & easy to make Unicorn Poke Cake! Vanilla cake layered with pudding, whipped cream, and sprinkles is a birthday dream!
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Berry Cakes
Fresh berries are one of my favorite desserts and when they’re baked into a birthday cake it’s even better!
Strawberry Tuxedo Cake
This might exist somewhere either under this name or another, but I haven’t Google’d it. Layers of white cake, chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream, strawberries, and chocolate ganache are heaven in your mouth!
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Lemon Blueberry Cake
This lemon blueberry cake is bursting with beautiful natural flavors and so refreshing! This moist, easy to make cake is filled with delicious blueberry and lemon buttercream!
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White Chocolate Raspberry Cake
This white chocolate raspberry cake features sweet white chocolate cake layers, a tart raspberry filling, and plenty of white chocolate buttercream. Just try to stop at one slice!
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Lemon-Lime Layer Cake
Layers of lemon cake with lime buttercream is a bright citrus burst that'll have everyone ready to sing Happy Birthday!
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Summer Fruit Sangria Cake
Enjoy your summer fruits and sangria together in cake form! This summer sangria cake is packed full of juicy, sun-ripened fruit and, you guessed it, sangria!
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Fancy Birthday Cakes
Take your birthday cake to a whole new level with the fancy birthday cakes that will wow the birthday boy or girl!
Sixlets Cake
The inside of the cake holds a birthday-blue sprinkle swirl, just like my favorite birthday cake ice cream. Then I stacked the outside high with Sixlets to the tippy-top of this cake for ultimate sprinkle-coverage!
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake
This Peanut Butter Chocolate Layer Cake recipe is made with layers of moist chocolate cake, peanut butter frosting and chopped Reese’s peanut butter cups! It’s rich, delicious and so fun!
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Funfetti Cake
No birthday is complete without a sprinkle filled FUNFETTI CAKE! This recipe is super moist and loaded with sprinkles and real vanilla extract. The entire cake is smothered in a simple vanilla buttercream and loaded up with even more sprinkles. It’s so hard to look at this cake and not smile!
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Neapolitan Cake
An easy Neapolitan Cake made using just one cake batter! Three layers of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry combine to make one stunning layer cake covered in creamy vanilla buttercream!
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Cookie Dough Cake
This cake is the ULTIMATE cookie dough lovers dessert. This cookie dough cake has a sweet and buttery vanilla chocolate chip cake with globs of cookie dough baked into each layer. These 3 layers are stacked and smothered in cookie dough buttercream then doused in silky chocolate ganache. If you have a major sweet tooth, this cake is for you!
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Alternative Birthday Cake Ideas
If you’re not into the usual layered cake, try one of these not-you-usual birthday cakes this year!
Birthday Cheesecake
This birthday cheesecake is packed full of flavor! It has a birthday cake Oreo cookie crust, a cheesecake batter with a cake batter extract, and bits of sugar cookie dough in it!
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Birthday Cake Waffles
These Birthday Cake Waffles are a fun way to kick off a day of celebration for that special someone! Made with cake mix, these waffles are an easy and sweet breakfast everyone will love!
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Copycat Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake
This Copycat Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake has layers of chocolate and vanilla ice cream around the iconic layer of chocolate crunchies and chocolate fudge. It is so easy to make and tastes just like the real thing!
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Cake Batter Rice Krispy Treats
These cake batter rice krispy treats taste just like birthday cake and are loaded with colorful sprinkles. So easy to make and the kids will love them!
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Birthday Cake Lasagna
This recipe is all about texture, flavor, and fun! A fabulous way to treat your loved one who is celebrating their birthday!
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Heather says
I’ve been looking for some original birthday cake recipes, so this will give me plenty of inspiration. Thanks for compiling all these delicious recipes!
Aubrey Cota says
Thanks Heather!