50+ Favorite Scratch Cake Recipes

This moist Vanilla Velvet Cake is rich, creamy, and delicious. The cream cheese in the cake batter along with the buttermilk make for an ultra tender, velvety soft cake. You will love the vanilla flavor as well!

This light and lemony scratch lemon cake is so moist and flavorful! I love it year-round, but especially in the spring and summer months! This has been one of our most popular recipes over the years!

This moist Carrot Cake has long been one of our most popular on our site! It has such an amazing combination of flavors from carrots, spices, coconut, pecans, and crushed pineapple. It is filled and frosted with a delicious cream cheese frosting. If you love carrot cakes (or know someone that does) this is sure to become a go-to recipe!

This white cake is moist, flavorful, and velvety soft! It's the only white cake recipe you'll ever need- always gets rave reviews!!

This Vanilla Buttermilk Layer Cake is so moist and flavorful! We make this recipe often and pair it with different fillings and frostings. A great go-to vanilla cake recipe!

Named for its velvety soft texture, this White Chocolate Velvet Cake is heavenly! It is soft, moist, and pairs perfectly with countless fillings and frostings (including white chocolate filling and frosting)! You cannot go wrong with this recipe.

This Chocolate Sour Cream cake is so moist, fluffy, and delicious! You cannot go wrong with this wonderful chocolate recipe!

This moist Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake is amazingly flavorful and perfect for fall! A delicious combination of two fall favorites.

This moist and delicious Lemon Buttermilk Cake with Whipped Lemon Mascarpone frosting is so light, moist, and flavorful! Change up to the filling nd frosting to create all sorts of delicious lemon cake combinations. This is a great go-to recipe.

Tiramisu layer cake with it’s flavors of vanilla, espresso, mascarpone, and a hint of Kahlua & cocoa is always a favorite for special occasions!

Moist and Delicious Vanilla Bean Cake recipe!

This Black Forest Cake From Scratch is the Best! Chocolate cake infused with Cherry Liqueur and filled with whipped cream and cherry filling!

Chocolate, toffee, and espresso flavor are the perfect match in this moist and delicious layer cake!

Keep this amazing homemade chocolate cake with chocolate pastry cream filling in mind for the chocolate lovers in your life. It is SO good!

This heavenly Coconut Cream Cake has such amazing flavor! Moist cake layers are filled with homemade coconut pastry cream and frosted with a whipped coconut cream cheese frosting in this crowd-pleasing dessert.

This moist Lemon Velvet Cake is named for it's soft, velvety texture. This lemon layer cake is filled with lemon curd and whipped cream, and frosted with lemon buttercream frosting.

This moist, decadent classic chocolate cake from scratch is the BEST! This cake recipe uses the Reverse Creaming Method of mixing, creating an extra moist cake with a tight crumb and velvety texture. It is so rich and delicious!

This moist White Chocolate Raspberry Cake from scratch is so moist and has wonderful flavor! This is the perfect choice for a special occasion dessert!

This moist and delicious Marble Cake recipe is always gets rave reviews! Frost with your favorite chocolate frosting (we love it with our Classic Chocolate Buttercream)!

Almond and raspberry is the perfect combination in this amazing dessert! This almond cake with swirls of raspberry not only has wonderful flavor, but it makes for a beautiful slice too!

This moist homemade blueberry layer cake has amazing flavor- perfect no matter what time of year but we especially love it's refreshing flavor in the spring and summer months!

This ultra moist homemade white cake is the perfect birthday cake, bridal shower cake, baby shower cake, and more! It is so moist, tender, and fluffy!

Yellow Velvet Cake is another of our "velvet cake" recipes named for its soft velvety texture. This yellow cake is sure to please- we love it with chocolate frosting!

Lemon and coconut are such a great combination in this homemade cake recipe! Lemon cake layeres are flecked with coconut, and filled with lemon curd and whipped coconut cream cheese frosting- heavenly!

Strawberry Pound Cake is a year-round favorite of ours! This cake is super moist, has a fine crumb and wonderful strawberry flavor!

A delicious scratch Cannoli Cake recipe! Three moist vanilla cake layers with chocolate chip mascarpone filling!

This Lemon Cheesecake Cake is ALWAYS a favorite! A lemon cheesecake cake layer is sandwiched between two layers of scratch lemon buttermilk cake- it is heavenly! Don't miss this delicious recipe!

Pecans and caramel are the perfect match in this delicious bundt cake! We especially love this recipe in the fall!

This moist and flavorful Cherry Cake from Scratch is one of our favorites! Keep this super moist cherry layer cake in mind for your next celebration! We love it with mini chocolate chips folded in as well!

This cake is a decadent, flavorful homemade chocolate cake recipe paired with a heavenly pecan pie filling! This recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!

This Chocolate Italian Cream Cake recipe is a delicious twist on a beloved classic! When chocolate, coconut, and pecans are involved, you can never go wrong. This moist layer cake has amazing flavor!

This sophisticated Champagne and Strawberries Cake is amazingly moist and flavorful! Keep this recipe in mind for special occasions from birthdays to anniversaries, Valentine's Day, bridal showers and more!

You will love this moist peanut butter layer cake recipe! Frosted with our creamy peanut butter buttercream and a decadent ganache drip, this moist peanut butter cake is sure to please any crowd!

This Oreo Cake with Ganache and Oreo Buttercream is a favorite at our house! Decadent chocolate layers with an amazing (and easy!) Oreo Buttercream!

We love this deliciously flavorful Maple Pecan Layer Cake recipe! This recipe is perfect year round but we especially love it in the fall!

This scratch Baileys Irish Cream Chocolate Cake has amazing flavor! Rich chocolate Irish Cream cake layers are filled with Baileys mousse and frosted with Baileys Irish Cream frosting. Yum!!

This moist Cinnamon Roll Cake has wonderful cinnamon flavor combined with a dreamy cinnamon cream cheese frosting!

This moist Cookies and Cream Layer Cake is so delicious! Vanilla cake layers are speckled with crushed Oreos and filled with Oreo Whipped Cream Filling.

This scratch Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting is moist and fluffy and has wonderful flavor! We love this cake year-round but especially for fall and winter gatherings!

This Butter Pecan Cake has so much flavor! We love these light, fluffy cake layers with whipped cream cheese frosting!

If you're looking for a moist, delicious cake with a light chocolate flavor, this Milk Chocolate Recipe is for you! We have fallen in love with this cake recipe!

Moist homemade dark chocolate cake layers are sure to please the chocolate lovers in your life! This cake would taste amazing with so many frostings and fillings- today we've paired it with a delicious Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting.

This moist Apple Toffee Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting has an amazing combination of flavors- It is the perfect fall dessert!

This moist Mint Oreo Cake with ganache and mint buttercream is the best! If you love the delicious combination of mint and chocolate, you will love this recipe!

This moist, delicious Boston Cream Pie consists of three vanilla cake layers filled with pastry cream and topped with a decadent chocolate glaze!

This tender, rich pound cake is sure to satisfy your dessert cravings- tastes amazing on it's own, or topped with frosting, ice cream, or berries and whipped cream!

This scratch Lemon Mascarpone Cake is ultra moist and velvety soft! We've paired it with a whipped cream filling and Lemon Mascarpone Frosting- you will love this recipe!

In this dessert, ultra moist almond pound cake is swirled with cherry for a flavor combination you are guaranteed to love!

This Almond Joy Cake is amazing! Decadent chocolate cake layers with a thick and flavorful coconut filling, frosted in rich ganache.

If you love gingerbread, you MUST try this amazing layer cake recipe! It is soft, moist, and has wonderful flavor. We love it with spiced cream cheese frosting!

With flavors of banana, pineapple, pecans, and cinnamon, this amazing Hummingbird Cake recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!

This amazing Italian Cream Cake recipe has so much flavor from chopped pecans, coconut, cream cheese frosting and more!

This moist and flavorful Strawberry Cake from scratch is a favorite year-round! It is the perfect strawberry cake!

This homemade Lemon Blueberry Cake is the perfect balance of lemon and blueberry flavor! So moist and perfect for spring and summer gatherings!

This homemade Chocolate Chip Cake recipe has all of the flavors that you love in a chocolate chip cookie. You'll love the hint of brown sugar flavor!

This buttery scratch Yellow Cake recipe tastes SO good. It is soft, moist, and oh so delicious!

This moist and delicious cake tastes just like an Orange Dreamsicle! Moist orange cake layers with orange cream filling and orange cream cheese frosting!

All the wonderful flavor of banana pudding in cake form! We love this amazing recipe! Banana cake layers are filled with bananas, vanilla wafers, and vanilla cream filling, and topped with whipped cream!

This Pineapple Cake Recipe is the best! Moist yellow cake layers with a luscious Pineapple & Cream Filling! This has been a hugely popular recipe on our site over the years!

This German Chocolate Cake tastes amazing! Moist German chocolate cake layers with a flavorful coconut and pecan filling. This recipe is always a crowd pleaser!

This flavorful Pink Champagne Cake will make any occasion feel more special! It is moist and the champagne flavor is heavenly. Its a great choice for bridal showers, anniversaries, New Year's parties, Valentine's Day, and more!

This heavenly chocolate cake has a velvety soft, creamy texture from the cream cheese in the batter! It is fluffy and moist with a fine crumb and just the right amount of chocolate!

This incredibly moist, fluffy strawberry cake has amazing flavor and a wonderful texture, thanks in part to the cream cheese and strawberry puree in the cake batter! We've filled our cake with sliced strawberries and whipped cream, and frosted with strawberry cream cheese frosting!

This scratch marble pound cake has a wonderfully rich flavor with just the right amount of chocolate. It is ultra moist, incredibly soft, and surprisingly easy to make!

This delicious recipe consists of moist almond cake layers with a flavorful almond cream cheese frosting!