Cake Recipes for Mother's Day!
Mother's Day is almost here and we wanted to highlight some of our favorite cake recipes for the occasion!
In this collection, you'll find lots of light and fruity springtime favorites as well as tried and true go-to classic recipes.
Some of our most popular are carrot cake, white velvet cake, and lemon cake! We hope that you enjoy scrolling through.
Don't miss our other Mother's Day cake post which features lots of free cake decorating tutorials as well!
Cake Recipes for Mother's Day
Sharing our favorite cake recipes for Mother's Day! In this collection, you will find light and fruity favorites as well as go-to classics.
This moist Carrot Cake has been one of our most popular recipes for years! The combination of carrots, cinnamon, pecans, crushed pineapple, and coconut, along with cream cheeese frosting is heavenly!
This moist homemade Lemon Cake is soft and tender with a lemon curd filling and lemon cream cheese frosting.
This white velvet cake always gets rave reviews, not just for its light vanilla flavor but also for its velvety soft texture. If you are looking for a go-to white cake, you will love this one!
This decadent strawberry cake is another great option for Mother's Day! It consists of moist homemade cake layers with wonderful strawberry flavor, along with a filling of fresh strawberries and homemade whipped cream.
If you love almond desserts, you must try this Almond Raspberry Swirl Cake! The pairing of almond and raspberries is so delicious, and the cake is beautiful when sliced.
These moist Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes from scratch pair Strawberry Cake with Lemon Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting. You will love this combination of flavors!
This ultra moist Lemon Mascarpone Cake is always a favorite! It is light, lemony, and guaranteed to please a crowd.
This Lemon Ricotta Cake is perfectly decadent and delicious. Ricotta cheese in the cake batter adds richness and makes for a fantastic texture!
This moist strawberry cheesecake cake consists of a cheesecake layer sandwiched between two homemade strawberry cake layers, filled with fresh strawberries and cream cheese frosting.
Like many of our "velvet cakes", this vanilla velvet cake not only has wonderful flavor, but also has a velvety soft texture thanks to the softened cream cheese incorporated into the cake batter.
This berry cheesecake consists of a creamy berry cheesecake layer sandwiched between vanilla cake layers are fresh strawberries and blueberries.
This light and fruity dessert consists of moist strawberry cake glazed with lemon, filled with fresh strawberries, and frosted with lemon cream cheese buttercream.
We always get great feedback from our readers on this Lemon Cheesecake Cake! Soft, homemade lemon buttermilk cake layers along with a layer of cheesecake make for the most impressive, decadent dessert.
This Lemon Pound Cake is so moist and delicious! It has a tight crumb and wonderful lemon flavor- so decadent!
This buttermilk pound cake is one of my personal favorites- when I need a quick pound cake, this is the one that I make! You will love the velvety texture and vanilla flavor.
This Berry Chantilly Cake consists of flavorful vanilla cake layers with chantilly cream and fresh berries!
Angel Food Cake is the perfect light dessert for spring and summer! We've topped it with whipped cream and berries!
Inspired by the classic scratch version, these easy Italian Cream Cupcakes have wonderful flavor from pecans and coconut, and are frosted with cream cheese frosting.
This Orange Dreamsicle Cake tastes exactly as you would imagine- Moist orange cake layers are filled with a delightful (and simple) orange cream filling, and frosted with orange cream cheese frosting. You will love this Orange Dreamsicle Inspired cake!
This Strawberry Shortcake Cake has been a favorite among our readers ever since we posted it last year! Flavorful pound cake layers are filled with fresh strawberries and homemade whipped cream!
This Five Flavor Pound Cake is out of this world! The star flavors of this recipe come from vanilla extract, lemon extract, coconut extract, rum extract, and butter extract. Altogether, they give this simple pound cake amazing flavor.
If you love banana pudding, you'll love our cake version! Banana cake layers are filled with an easy vanilla pudding cream filling, sliced bananas, and vanilla wafers! We've frosted the cake with homemade cream cheese frosting. This cake is so, so good and perfect for spring and summer.
This go-to yellow cake from scratch is so moist, fluffy, and flavorful! We love it with chocolate buttercream but it pairs perfectly with just about any frosting or filling you can think of!
This Banana Rum Cake is bursting with flavor from brown sugar, mashed bananas, rum, cinnamon, and pecans. It is a simple cake mix recipe that is sure to impress!
This classic Italian Cream Cake is a southern favorite! It is moist and fluffy with the perfect balance of coconut and pecans. We've filled and frosted it with our go-to cream cheese frosting. We receive lots of great reviews from this one!
Oh how we love Hummingbird Cake! This is another southern favorite, with bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. The cake is filled and frosted iwth classic cream cheese frosting. (We have a cake mix version of this recipe as well!)
Lemon and Coconut are the perfect pair in this homemade layer cake!
This Raspberry Cake Recipe is bursting with raspberry flavor! Keep this super moist and light cake recipe in mind for your spring and summer celebrations.
Everyone loves Coconut Cream Cake! In this recipe, coconut cake layers are filled with coconut pastry cream filling. So decadent and delicious.
This Pistachio Cake is a fairly new addition to our recipes section by popular demand! It is moist, fluffy, and so flavorful!
This easy Brownie Cake starts with a box of brownie mix! The cake layers are moist, fluffy, and you guessed it- taste like brownies!
These easy Butter Pecan Cupcakes are the perfect dessert for any occasion!
We love this Oreo Ice Cream Cake and it is so easy to make. Oreo ice cream, chocolate ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, and Oreos make for the perfect, impressive dessert!
Melissa, BeBe,
All of the cakes look delicious, Now I will have to decide which one to make for
Mother's Day to give to my daughter.
Thank you both
Nancy
Thank you Nancy! Hope you have a great Mother's Day ;0)
Fabulous ideas as always! :-) I'm finally making the carrot cake with a cheesecake in the middle for Mom and myself :-)
Happy Mother's Day Melissa and BeBe! Enjoy your day!
Oh I'm so glad to hear it! Should have included that one in this list ;0) You can never go wrong with carrot cake and cheesecake!