Buttermilk Cake Recipes
Today, we are featuring our favorite buttermilk cake recipes. These moist and flavorful cakes may not always have "buttermilk" in the name, but it is often the secret ingredient that makes them so good!
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What does Buttermilk do for Cakes?
Buttermilk adds wonderful richness to cakes and you may notice a very slight tanginess as well. Most importantly, its acidity softens strands of gluten, which makes for a much more tender, moist, and soft cake!
Favorite Buttermilk Cake Recipes
In this delicious roundup, we are featuring our favorite cakes that feature buttermilk as a key ingredient.
We hope that you enjoy these delicious buttermilk cake recipes! If you give any of them a try, we would love to hear what you think. Our Buttermilk Pound Cake and Lemon Buttermilk Cake are just a couple of our most popular!
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Favorite Buttermilk Cakes
Buttermilk is a star ingredient in many of our favorite cake recipes! In this collection, you'll find our most popular buttermilk cakes! These cakes are so moist and flavorful!
Lemon Pound Cake
This decadent Lemon Pound Cake is so flavorful! It has a fine crumb and a velvety soft texture.
Maple Toffee Cake
This moist and delicious Maple Toffee Layer Cake recipe is so flavorful with vanilla cake speckled with toffee bits and flavored with maple. The buttermilk in the recipe makes it extra moist and tender.
Orange Bundt Cake
This moist and soft orange bundt cake rom scratch is delicious orange flavor and a tender crumb.
Maple Pound Cake
This ultra moist Maple Pound Cake has a fine crumb and amazing maple flavor. We've topped it with a caramel glaze and pecans! This is the perfect cake recipe for fall!
Yellow Cake from Scratch
This buttery scratch Yellow Cake tastes SO good. This layer cake is so tender, and is sure to become a crowd favorite. Perfect for birthday parties!
Neapolitan Cake
This moist Neapolitan Cake is a delicious combination of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry! You don't need to make three different recipes with this cake, we are simply doctoring a vanilla cake recipe from scratch.
Chocolate Chip Cake Recipe
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! It is sure to be a family favorite for birthdays or just because!
Pineapple Dream Cake
This heavenly Pineapple Dream Cake is so moist and tender. Crushed pineapple is baked into tender vanilla cake layers, and the cake is filled with a delicious pineapple whipped cream cheese filling.
Vanilla Bundt Cake
This moist Vanilla Bundt Cake is ultra soft and moist, thanks to the buttermilk, cream cheese, and cake flour in the batter. It is a wonderful texture and light vanilla flavor- tastes great on its own or topped with berries and whipped cream!
Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting
This scratch Spice Cake with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting is moist and fluffy and has wonderful flavor! The spiced layers are extra tender thanks to the buttermilk in the recipe, and they pair perfectly with the orange spice cream cheese frosting!
Marble Cake from Scratch
This moist Marble Cake recipe is always a crowd pleaser! We've received so many great reviews for this cake over the years. It makes a wonderful cake for birthdays and other special occasions.
Lemon Cheesecake Cake
This Lemon Cheesecake Cake is heavenly! A lemon cheesecake layer is sandwiched between two moist lemon buttermilk cake layers and frosted in lemon cream cheese frosting.
Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Recipe
This amazing Vanilla Cake is one of our most popular recipes! It is fluffy, tender, and so moist. It also pairs perfectly with any number of fillings and frostings!
Almond Cake (A Scratch Recipe)
This light, tender, and fluffy almond cake is always a crowd favorite. Fluffy homemade cake layers are flavored with almond and frosted in almond cream cheese frosting in this impressive dessert.
Snickerdoodle Cake
This Snickerdoodle cake consists of vanilla cake layers flavored with swirls of cinnamon and brown sugar, and glazed with caramel.
Chocolate Cheesecake Cake
Time to get a little fancy! This cake is any chocolate lovers dream. A layer of creamy chocolate cheesecake is sandwiched between two chocolate buttermilk layers in this rich dessert. You will love it!
Lemon Buttermilk Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This lemon buttermilk cake is one our most popular lemon cakes! We have a few favorites on our site- but this fluffy, tender lemon cake does not disappoint! Keep it in mind for birthdays, showers, weddings, and more!
White Velvet Cake
This dreamy White Velvet Cake not only has buttermilk for extra softness, but also a block of softened cream cheese frosting for added richness and extra velvety texture.
Chocolate Buttermilk Cake
This Buttermilk Chocolate Cake is so moist ,fluffy, and perfectly chocolatey! It is not too rich, but has just the right amount of chocolate flavor. The buttermilk in the recipe makes and so tender and soft.
Orange Cake
This delicious, fluffy orange cake is another great example of how buttermilk can make the lightest, most tender cakes!
Gluten Free Vanilla Cake
This Gluten Free Vanilla Cake is based on our Vanilla Buttermilk Cake. It has great flavor and a wonderful texture.
Margarita Cupcakes
We just love these margarita cupcakes! Fluffy lime cupcakes are frosted with tequlia cream cheese frosting in this delicious, cocktail-inspired dessert!
Strawberry Shortcake (with Pound Cake)
This "Strawberry Shortcake Cake" is a fantastic twist on traditional strawberry shortcake as it uses layers of buttermilk pound cake. It is filled and topped with sliced strawberries and homemade whipped cream.
Buttermilk Pound Cake
This buttermilk pound cake is a wonderful go-to recipe. It is so soft and tender!
Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Calling all lemon lovers! These lemon cupcakes are out of this world. Thanks to the buttermilk in the recipe, they are ultra moist, soft, and so fluffy. This is our go-to lemon cupcake recipe!
Honey Cake
This velvety soft honey cake has wonderful flavor from brown sugar, honey, and cinnamon!
Homemade White Cake
Oh how we love this Homemade White Cake! It has great flavor and a heavenly texture from the buttermilk in the cake recipe. This and our White Velvet Cake are our favorite white cakes at the moment!
Vanilla Cupcakes
These are the perfect scratch Vanilla Cupcakes! Moist, fluffy, and perfect with so many frostings and fillings!