A summer cake should look special without keeping you indoors all afternoon. These cakes feature fresh fruit, light frostings, cheerful colors, and flavors that feel right at home beside lemonade and lawn chairs. They are pretty enough for birthdays but relaxed enough for a backyard lunch. Be sure to save yourself a slice before you run out.
Carrot Cake
This layered carrot cake recipe is everything a classic carrot cake should be: ultra-moist, perfectly spiced, and layered with a silky cream cheese-mascarpone frosting. Loaded with freshly shredded carrots, every bite is tender and flavorful, and the homemade frosting perfectly balances the rich cake layers. You'll love making this bakery-style dessert that feels both comforting and elegant.
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Lemon Icebox Cake
This no-bake lemon icebox cake is ideal for warm or lazy days when you want a fresh dessert without using the oven. It features layers of graham crackers, homemade lemon diplomat cream, and airy whipped cream, offering a bright citrus flavor, fragrant aroma, and soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture that only gets better as it chills!
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Cherry Heaven on Earth Cake
If you love cherries and cream desserts, this Cherry Heaven on Earth Cake might become your new favorite. Soft cake, silky homemade vanilla cream, and cherry pie filling come together in a layered treat that’s perfect for make-ahead entertaining. The name gives you the perfect hint of how you'll feel after taking your first bite.
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Rainbow Cake
This easy rainbow cake recipe is one of the beautiful cakes with colorful layers and a super easy, light cream cheese frosting! Not only the most colorful cakes of all but also tastes really amazing with vanilla and cream cheese notes. A super delicious and fun cake to make from scratch, you will love it!
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Mojito Cake
This mojito cake (pound cake) recipe is the easiest, most festive cake you can make for your adult friends and family. Lime, mint, and of course rum can be found in this beautifully aromatic, sweet, and tangy boozy cake. The Mojito cake recipe can be made without rum too, you will still get a delicious and full of flavor lime & mint pound cake, sort of a virgin mojito!
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Pavlova Cake
This pavlova cake is the perfect dessert for Spring and Summer! Perfectly baked meringue that's crunchy on the outside and marshmallow on the inside, with freshly whipped cream and juicy berries on top.
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Strawberry Crunch Cake
What can be more Spring-like than the first taste of fresh seasonal strawberries? This strawberry crunch cake has the best texture, taste, and tantalizing appearance.
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Lemon Poke Cake
This moist lemon poke cake is the ultimate Springtime dessert you didn't know you needed! It features a tender lemon sponge base filled with a zesty lemon filling and a final touch made with a creamy homemade Chantilly cream whipped topping that will leave you licking your fingers. It's fun, fresh, flavorful, and one of the best lemon cakes you will ever try!
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Almond Strawberry Cake
This almond strawberry cake is a delightful balance of sweet and nutty. It may seem like a humble single-layer strawberry cake, but it’s packed with flavors and offers a perfect blend of simplicity and elegance for any occasion.
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Strawberry Poke Cake
This incredibly moist and flavorful strawberry poke cake with fresh strawberries is the perfect way to add a burst of fruity flavor to your dessert table this spring or summer! With a soft vanilla sponge soaked in homemade strawberry sauce and topped with luscious Chantilly whipped topping, every bite packs an irresistible flavor and a melt-in-your-mouth texture.
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Rhubarb Cake
This is the ultimate rhubarb cake recipe, the simplest and most delicious spring cake to try to celebrate the rhubarb season. Super moist yogurt and brown sugar cake loaded with rhubarb and topped with a super simple strawberry rhubarb compote, you will love it!
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Mango Mousse Cake
This super-light mango mousse cake recipe consists of a delicious buttery sponge layer and the airiest yogurt-based mousse loaded with fragrant mangos! It is one of the easiest, most refreshing cakes ever with an incredibly delicious result that is light and very well balanced in sweetness.
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Strawberry Icebox Cake
This delicious no bake strawberry icebox cake is the perfect dessert for those warm spring and summer days when you don't want to spend hours in the kitchen or even turning on the oven! Layered with fresh strawberries, graham cracker cookies, and a rich vanilla whipped cream, it's light, refreshing, and 100% made from scratch. Whether making it for yourself or sharing it with a crowd, it is guaranteed to become a favorite!
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Napoleon Cake
Napoleon cake is a showstopping dessert to share. Puff pastry is buttery, crunchy, and delicious and tastes amazing piled in a tower with silky pastry cream between layers. You can coat this easy Napoleon cake in an extra light layer of cream and finely crushed puff pastry pieces, or for a summery touch, garnish this puff pastry layer cake with fresh berries and a dusting of powdered sugar.
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Lemonade Bundt Cake
Once you've tried this lemonade bundt cake, you won't want to taste the new season any other way. Not only is it bursting with lemon flavor, but it also has the most amazing velvety texture.
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Fraisier Cake
In this detailed recipe, I teach you how to make the traditional full-sized Fraisier cake. No doubt, elegant Fraisier cake is often seen in Patisserie windows and revered as a famous French pastry dessert. Buttery, fluffy sponge layers, decadent vanilla bean créme mousseline, and fresh strawberries are all you need.
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Charlotte Cake
Layers of fluffy ladyfingers, vanilla-flavored créme mousseline, and Spring berries. This Charlotte cake is very easy to make, but it certainly looks very impressive. Sort of a strawberry tiramisu with creamy vanilla filling!
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Lotus Biscoff Cake
This Lotus Biscoff cake recipe combines moist brown sugar sponge cake layers, Biscoff spread, and a luxurious Biscoff buttercream (mousseline cream to be exact). Caramel, cinnamon, brown sugar, and spicy flavor can be found in this Lotus Cake recipe that you can make easily following my step-by-step baking guide.
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Peach Cake
This easy peach cake recipe is probably the simplest and most delicious cake to make when sweet peaches are in season. It's a super moist yogurt cake loaded with peaches and topped with a simple peach thyme compote. It's the ultimate easy cake recipe to make.
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Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Mousse
This is the ultimate carrot cake with cream cheese mousse filling! Moist and tender homemade carrot cake packed with spices and filled with delicious, airy cream cheese mousse is a great idea any other time of the year, it is certainly a must-make for any occasion!
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Berry Chantilly Cake
This berry chantilly cake is a light and elegant layer cake made with an ultra-moist oil-based sponge, fresh berry coulis, and a soft mascarpone Chantilly cream. It delivers a bakery-style texture that stays fluffy and tender while layering bright fruit flavor with a smooth, creamy finish. Perfect for celebrations, this cake is fresh, airy, and designed to slice beautifully with clean, defined layers.
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Sourdough Strawberry Shortcakes
There is no better way to celebrate summer fruit than with this sourdough strawberry shortcakes recipe. The shortcakes are made with flaky sourdough discard biscuits, fluffy whipped cream, and juicy strawberries.
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Lemon and Blackberry Cake
Easy lemon and blackberry cake starts with moist blackberry cake with lemon zest and has an easy blackberry cake frosting! You’ll love this blackberry lemon cake with blackberry filling and lemon curd!
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Lemon Lavender Cake
The days are getting a bit more summery here, but I still have one more delicate, delicious spring bake to share with you! This lemon lavender cake is light, tender, flavorful, and decadent!
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Chocolate Strawberry Cake
Chocolate strawberry cake is a brownie-like chocolate cake that's filled and topped with whipped cream and strawberries.
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