Cakes

Check out cake recipes, cake decoration tutorials and frosting tips!

  1. Cake Recipes
  2. Cake Decoration Tutorials
  3. A Year in Review: Birthday Cakes

Cake Recipes

Molten Pistachio cake lots of gooey middle on plate

Pistachio Lava Cake

This rich Pistachio Lava Cake has a decadent, molten center just waiting to spill out! Made from scratch with real pistachios, It’s the ultimate dessert!

Cake pops with purple and blue butterfly sprinkles

Best Tips and Tricks for How to Make Cake Pops

All the best tips and tricks you need to know for making cake pops and having them turn out right every time!

3 Cake pops covered in disc sprinkles and wrapped up in clear treat bags, tied with a ribbon

A Deep Dive into How to Make Cake Pops

This article will teach you know everything you could ever want to know about making cake pops, from which ingredients to use to how to make your own cake pop drying stand!

slice of chocolate cake covered with chocolate chip cookie dough frosting on a plate. In front is a fork with a scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough frosting

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting, The BEST Cake Frosting!

A Cookie Dough you’re supposed to eat! This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frosting uses the best part of the chocolate chip cookie (the dough!) and makes it into the perfect cake frosting!

Bonus Cake Tips

thick swirl of black frosting surrounded by thin swirls

Blackest Black Frosting

Using this simple hack helps your frosting to be the deepest black without any bitter taste! 

parchment paper in 2round cake pans

How to Line a Round Cake Pan with Parchment Paper

Learn the easy way to line a round cake pan with parchment paper and remove even the softest, stickiest cakes with ease! This trick is a lifesaver!

Cake Decoration Tutorials

unicorn cake with blue, pink, purple and yellow swirls.

How to Make a Frosted Unicorn Cake

A Unicorn Cake is relatively simple to design but has a striking beauty!

dog cupcake tutorial step 5: eyes, nose, tongue

Easy Dog Cupcakes Tutorial

These adorable dog cupcakes look complicated but are actually quite simple (and quick) to make!

9x13 cake decorated like Bluey. Cupcakes added on top for ears

Bluey Cake Tutorial or How to Use a Template to Frost a Cake

Use this technique to easily transfer a pattern onto a cake, and make a Bluey Cake with ease! Plus, learn how to get the perfect navy frosting for Bluey’s spots!

Minion cake, yellow face with gray goggles with black straps, 1 green eye and 1 brown eye. Blue overalls, black smile

Simple Minion Cake with Frosting

The perfect birthday cake for a fan of the Despicable Me or Minions movies! Check out this step-by-step tutorial, complete with pictures!

A Year in Review: Birthday Cakes

2024 birthday cakes: unicorn, minion, Spiderman, heart puppy, Bluey and dog cupcake

A Year in Review: Birthday Cakes 2024

6 birthday cakes I made for my kids in 2024

Check back soon for more Cake Recipes!

I’m Angie

Angie

Wife, mother of 5 and baker of breads, cookies and more! Baking and cooking from scratch helps us to be frugal and control what we feed our families. Join me on From Scratch to Scrumptious to find recipes that are delicious and easily made with ingredients you already have in your pantry!

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