Our 26 Best Homemade Birthday CakesLooking for a few good birthday-cake ideas? Whether you’re celebrating someone’s fourth or 44th year on this planet, our best birthday cake recipes—for adults and kids alike—have all the flavors covered!
We don’t care how old you are—everybody, including full-fledged adults, deserves a fun birthday cake to celebrate the survival of another year. All the better if it’s a homemade birthday cake, piled high with fluffy buttercream frosting and crowned with one, two, three, or 63 candles.
The following recipe compendium spans all the usual birthday-cake flavors, from chocolate and strawberry to red velvet and classic white. But this is Saveur you’re reading, people, so you can expect more than the traditional American options. Among our best birthday-cake recipes: a gooey chocolate Swedish kladdkaka and a coconut-laden Danish drommekage.
Beyond just layers and icing, we’ve also included such out-of-the-box confections as a stack of delicate crèpes and a flaming baked Alaska. Got a problem with gluten? That’s not a problem with this teff-fueled carrot cake and flourless chocolate cake.
Go ahead, make a wish. Then realize it with a forkful of sugar-fueled heaven.
White Mountain Layer Cake with Marshmallow Buttercream
Strawberry Cake
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Looking for a few good birthday-cake ideas? Whether you’re celebrating someone’s fourth or 44th year on this planet, our best birthday cake recipes—for adults and kids alike—have all the flavors covered!
We don’t care how old you are—everybody, including full-fledged adults, deserves a fun birthday cake to celebrate the survival of another year. All the better if it’s a homemade birthday cake, piled high with fluffy buttercream frosting and crowned with one, two, three, or 63 candles.
The following recipe compendium spans all the usual birthday-cake flavors, from chocolate and strawberry to red velvet and classic white. But this is Saveur you’re reading, people, so you can expect more than the traditional American options. Among our best birthday-cake recipes: a gooey chocolate Swedish kladdkaka and a coconut-laden Danish drommekage.
Beyond just layers and icing, we’ve also included such out-of-the-box confections as a stack of delicate crèpes and a flaming baked Alaska. Got a problem with gluten? That’s not a problem with this teff-fueled carrot cake and flourless chocolate cake.
Go ahead, make a wish. Then realize it with a forkful of sugar-fueled heaven.
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White Mountain Layer Cake with Marshmallow Buttercream
Strawberry Cake
Subscribe Now and Save 72%
Limited time offer. Saveur for iPad included. Gift subscriptions available.