The 35+ BEST Easy Cake Recipes
The BEST Easy Cake Recipes — Whether it’s a birthday cake, anniversary cake, or a just-because cake, you’ll find the perfect EASY cake to make here!! Only the BEST easy cake recipes, including chocolate, fruity, pumpkin, red velvet, and more!!
Super Easy Cake Recipes
If you’re looking for a birthday cake, anniversary cake, holiday cake, chocolate cake, fruity cake, pumpkin cake, icebox cake, or a just because you’re craving cake kind of cake, these 35+ cakes have you covered.
There’s a mixture of 100% from scratch cakes and some doctored up cake mix cakes. They’re all easy, they’re all delicious, and there’s something for everyone here.
I’ve grouped the easy cake recipes below by category in the following order: chocolate cakes, peanut butter cakes, fruity cakes, pumpkin cakes, red velvet cakes, coffee cakes, spice cakes, vanilla cakes, and icebox cakes. I know, it’s a lot of cake recipes!
Each and every one of these are such easy cakes to make, and these are some of the most popular recipes on my blog. If you try one of these easy cake recipes for yourself, please leave me a comment letting me know how it turned out! And if you need even MORE easy cake recipes after scrolling through this post, you can check out all of my cake recipes here.
Easy Chocolate Cake Recipes
The Best and Easiest Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes — One bowl, no mixer, so easy! The warm, gooey, fudgy chocolate lava cake center is heavenly! Better than any restaurant versions! Best chocolate cake EVER!!
Easy Fruity Cake Recipes
Lemon Buttermilk Cake with Lemon Glaze — An easy buttermilk cake with big lemon flavor!! Soft, fluffy, and foolproof if you like puckering up!!
Hummingbird Cake – A super SOFT and moist cake with bananas, pineapple, coconut, cream cheese frosting, and pecans!! Makes a huge cake that’ll feed a crowd!
Olive Oil Orange Cake — A super soft and moist cake that’s made with olive oil!! Orange zest, orange juice, and Gran Marnier add tons of AMAZING orange flavor to this easy, no-mixer cake that’s unique, refined, and INCREDIBLE!!
Easy Pumpkin Cake Recipes
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake — This soft and moist pumpkin cake is loaded with chocolate in every bite!! An EASY one-bowl fall dessert that’s perfect for impromptu entertaining or anytime a pumpkin craving strikes!!
Easy Coffee Cake Recipes
Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake — An EASY, no-mixer cake studded with juicy blueberries and topped with big buttery streusel nuggets that are just SO GOOD!! Not overly sweet and PERFECT with a cup of coffee for breakfast, brunch, or a snack!!
Pumpkin Crumb Coffee Cake — A FAST and EASY no-mixer pumpkin coffee cake with rich pumpkin flavor!! Super soft, tender, and topped with the BEST crumble topping that you’ll fall in love with!
Easy Spice Cake Recipes
Apple Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting — An EASY, one-bowl, no-mixer apple cake that’s to-die-for!! Loaded with juicy apples in every bite, perfectly spiced, and topped with tangy cream cheese frosting! So DELISH!!
Easy White, Yellow, & Vanilla Cake Recipes
Caramel Coconut Poke Cake — An incredibly EASY and super moist cake thanks to a creamy caramel mixture that’s poked into the cake!! Topped with crispy toasted coconut, this cake is a DELISH winner!!
Easy Glazed Pound Cake — Finally a homemade pound cake that isn’t dry!! This EASY, buttery, velvety pound cake will be the star of your next party or celebration!
White Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake – A fast, EASY, no-mixer cake that’s soft, fluffy, tender, and just melts in your mouth!! The white chocolate twist on a traditional Texas chocolate sheet cake is DELISH!
These all look so awesome. Not sure which one to make first!
hello.oh , thanks for sheraing recipes. l enjoy look at the page.l made some your recipe.sum total was very good.thankful.🙏🙏
Thanks for trying the recipes and glad you are enjoying them!
The pumpkin cakes are calling my name! I’ve held off for a while since it’s still summer, but looking at these now, I don’t think I can wait much longer. Can’t wait to dive in!
I’ve already made so much with pumpkin the past few weeks (to be posted soon) and can relate the craving!
Hi Avery!
Wow, this is one awesome roundup! I am so gonna try the upside down pineapple cake (my husband & teenage son love pineapple!) and also the cookies & cream bundt cake.
I’m on a ‘mission’ right now to bake a cake every weekend – enough with the store-bought stuff which costs a lot and frankly, doesn’t taste that good, either. So this will be the perfect primer for me to go on my baking mission – thanks!! xxx
Oops, sorry – stupid autocorrect redid your name as Avery instead of Averie *yikes*
Let me know what you make and hope you all enjoy the cakes!
MMMM MMMM I think I gained ten whole pounds just LOOKING at these recipes! LOL
I think the pistachio will be the first one I’ll try because…..well, it’s PISTACHIO!
I thank you for these because I’m married to a sugarholic. There are never enough sweets around OUR house.
Seeing them all in one place, it’s hard to believe I made them all…so much sugar, worth every bite :) Enjoy!
I am eyeing up your different caramel cake recipes for my son’s upcoming birthday. I just made your zucchini chocolate chip bundt cake earlier this week because, you know, it’s zucchini season here in Michigan. :) My kids told me it was a keeper. OK, actually, they were imitating the hosts on the Best British Baking Show and said that it was a “good bake” with “no soggy bottom”. We have a crazy sense of humor around here …
That’s great about the zucchini cake and your kids saying its a keeper! I love your senses of humor!
These all look so good–there is something for every flavor preference and every occasion! I think you could write another cookbook:) These kind of round ups make me realize how much baking, testing, tweaking, and researching is behind all your recipes (and then all the gorgeous photography after)!
Lol…another cookbook will be saved for another lifetime :) Thanks for sharing that realization and yes, there is a ton of work behind a recipe roundup like this one! Spans years of kitchen experiments and lots of grocery store runs and dishes to do :)