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The Best Cake + Cupcake Recipes

Looking for the best cake and cupcake recipes? From rich chocolate cakes and classic birthday cakes to moist bundt cakes, easy sheet cakes, and bakery-style cupcakes, these tried-and-true favorites are perfect for every celebration.

Square of white sheet cake topped with cream cheese layer and fruit topping on white plate with fresh blueberries.

Grandma’s Famous Sheet Cake

Several pumpkin cupcakes topped with whipped cream cheese frosting on wire cooling rack.

Perfect Pumpkin Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

Piece of chocolate olive oil cake topped with whipped cream and crispy chocolate pearls with bite of cake on fork on white plate.

Amazing Chocolate Olive Oil Cake

Square of pumpkin caramel poke cake with bite taken out and topped with frosting and toffee bits.

Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake with Whipped Caramel Cream Frosting

Bite taken out of carrot cake coffee cake on light gray plate.

Carrot Cake Coffee Cake

Fork taking bite of frosted applesauce spice cake on white plate.

Applesauce Spice Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Molten lava cake on white plate with ice cream and spoon.

My Favorite Chocolate Molten Lava Cakes

Square piece of banana oat snack cake on spatula.

Banana Oat Chocolate Chip Snack Cake

Bite of orange pumpkin cake being scooped out of big slice with fork on white plate.

Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Warm Vanilla Cinnamon Sauce

piece of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on white plate

The Best Chocolate Cake {New and Improved}

layered angel food cake, raspberries and whipped cream in white baking dish with scoop taken out

Heavenly Raspberry Cream Angel Food Cake Dessert

fork taking bite of cranberry coffee cake and warm vanilla sauce

Cranberry Coffee Cake with Warm Vanilla Sauce

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