Best Cake Flavors For Birthdays & Celebrations

Classic Carousel Cakes’ Oprah’s Favorite Red Velvet Layer Cake

As the name suggests, Carousel Cakes’ Oprah’s Favorite Red Velvet Layer Cake is the talk show host’s favorite. Each cake is baked to perfection and topped with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting.

Scarlet Savannah’s Candy Kitchen’s Red Velvet Cake

Savannah’s Candy Kitchen hand-frosts its Red Velvet Cake with fluffy, light-as-a-cloud cream cheese frosting. Each classic cake is studded with roasted pecan pieces for the perfect Southern cake.

Exemplary Erin McKenna’s Bakery Vegan + Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake

Erin McKenna’s eponymous New York bakery bakes one of the very best vanilla cakes. Each six-inch Vegan + Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake is deliciously decorated with vanilla frosting and colorful sprinkles.

Amazing Archie’s Hough Bakeries’ Legendary White Cake

Archie’s Hough Bakeries’ makes some of Cleveland’s best known cakes. Archie’s Hough Bakeries’ Legendary White Cake is a rich and moist white cake made from a recipe that dates to 1903. Each cake is carefully coated with buttercream frosting with a hint of almond.

Gorgeous Gladys’ Bakery’s Strawberry Angel Food Cake

Angel food cakes first appeared in the cookbook “The Kentucky Housewife” written by Lattice Bryan in 1839. Today, the classic cake is an oldie but a goodie. Gladys’ Bakery’s Strawberry Angel Food Cake is light, fluffy, and PINK!

Sensational Sugaree’s Strawberry Cake

Sugaree’s Strawberry Cake is one of the sweetest cakes that is almost too pretty to eat. Each cake is packed with strawberries topped with strawberry-infused pastel pink buttercream frosting.

Unbeatable Brooklyn Blackout Company’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake

Brooklyn Blackout Company bakes Brooklyn’s most iconic cake. Their Brooklyn Blackout Cake features a dark, rich chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing. Mmm…memorable.

Delightful Duff Goldman’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Duff Goldman’s four-layer Ultimate Chocolate Cake is moist and rich chocolate cake filled with decadent chocolate mousse. This chocolate cake is a chocoholic’s dream. This cake is a show-stopper with chocolate cream cheese frosting, gold and chocolate sprinkles, chocolate nonpareil, and chocolate ganache.

Lovely Lloyd’s Carrot Cake’s Famous Carrot Cake

Using 7,000 pounds of carrots daily, New York’s Lloyd’s Carrot Cake bakes one of the best carrot cakes ever. Each Famous Carrot Cake is made with five cups of twice-grated carrots, eggs, and cinnamon. Then, they are generously covered in cream cheese frosting.

Unforgettable Flour Bakery + Cafe’s Carrot Cake

Boston’s iconic Flour Bakery + Cafe’s Carrot Cake features loads of shredded carrots, plump raisins, and toasted walnuts. Each bite has a moist crumb and perfectly sweetened cream cheese frosting.

Colorful Carlo’s Bakery’s Rainbow Cake

“Cake Boss,” Buddy Valastro has created one of the most colorful cakes ever. Carlo’s Bakery’s six-layer, six-color Rainbow Cake has vanilla icing and is covered and coated in rainbow sprinkles.

Creative Caroline’s Cakes’ Rainbow Cake

Caroline Cakes takes a creative twist on a Rainbow Cake. It’s Rainbow Cake is a seven-layer lemon cake filled with seven colorful fruit fillings. This Rainbow Cake is filled with blackberry, blueberry, lime, lemon, orange, and raspberry fillings. Then, it’s iced with lemon-flavored buttercream.

Beautiful Blue Owl Bakery’s Funfetti Birthday Cake

Hey, it’s your birthday. Help yourself to a happy birthday with a Funfetti birthday cake. Blue Owl Bakery’s Funfetti Birthday Cake is white cake with candy bits mixed into the batter. It’s frosted with buttercream icing and decorated with generous amounts of sprinkles and joy.

Marvelous Misha’s Cupcakes’ Funfetti Birthday Cake

Get in a birthday state of mind with Funfetti. Miami’s Misha’s Cupcakes bakes a festive Funfetti Birthday Cake. Misha’s Cupcakes’ Funfetti Birthday Cake is a vanilla cake with sprinkles decorated with white buttercream frosting and trimmed with sprinkles.

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Delightful Daisy Cakes’s Daisy’s Lemon Cake

Pauline, South Carolina’s Daisy Cakes whips up a delicious lemon cake. Each Lemon Cake is layered with handmade lemon curd made from hand zested and juiced lemons. Each Daisy’s Lemon Cake is frosted with cream cheese icing blended with lemon card for a sweet and tart treat.

Wonderful We Take the Cake’s Luscious Lemon 4-Layer Cake

We Take the Cake bakes a beautiful and bright lemon layer cake. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida bakery’s Luscious Lemon 4-Layer Cake is layered with lemon cake, lemon cream cheese frosting, and raspberry preserves. Each lemon cake is topped with cream cheese, white chocolate ganache, and candy lemon slices.