Favorite Nutty Cakes
If you love cakes with pecans, almonds, pistachios, and more, you are in luck. We have so many delicious nutty cakes to share with you!
The addition of chopped nuts to cakes not only adds another layer of flavor, but also a bit of texture, as with our Carrot Cake & Hummingbird Cake recipes. There are so many fantastic flavor combinations to choose from.
In this collection of recipes, you will find an assortment of crowd pleasing cakes for any occasion. We're sharing classics like Italian Cream Cake and German Chocolate Cake, as well as more unique flavor combinations like our Lemon Almond Cake. Keep these recipes in mind for your next celebration. Enjoy scrolling through!
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Favorite Nutty Cakes
Today we are featuring flavorful nutty cake recipes from pistachio cakes to pecan cakes, almond cakes and more. These delicious recipes are sure to please a crowd!
This Almond Cake has been hugely popular over the years! It is soft and tender with lots of great almond flavor. If you are a fan of almond, you will love this recipe!
There's just nothing better than the combination of coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting. You will love this classic, crowd pleasing recipe- it is one of our most popular!
If you love pistachio ice cream, you will love this pistachio layer cake (as well as our pistachio pound cake)! This decadent cake is so soft, moist and flavorful and is filled and frosted with cream cheese frosting.
Carrot Cake is another of our favorite recipes! The combination of shredded carrots, coconut, cinnamon, crushed pineapple and pecans is heavenly. We've received so much positive feedback on this recipe over the years- you must try it!
Raspberry and almond are so great together in this moist, velvety soft cake! It always gets rave reviews!
This German Chocolate Cake is exceptionally moist and light, with wonderful German chocolate flavor. The Coconut Pecan filling and topping takes it to another level of deliciousness!
Hummingbird cake is another old fashioned favorite, with LOTS of flavor from bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. The layers are filled and frosted with a rich and wonderful cream cheese frosting.
This is a chocolatey twist on an old favorite. You can never go wrong with chocolate, pecans, and coconut!
This rich and decadent Chocolate Turtle Cake is made up of rich cake layers, caramel, and crushed pecans. Yum!
Nobody would guess that this Hummingbird Layer Cake starts with a box of cake mix! Just like the scratch version, this recipe combines flavors of banana, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. It is fantastic!
This simple doctored cake mix recipe for Banana Pecan Bundt Cake is so soft, moist, and flavorful with banana, pecans, and a homemade caramel glaze. So good!
If you love Italian Cream Cake, you will love this simplified version with cake mix! The combination of pecans, coconut, and cream cheese frosting is perfect!
This scratch Coconut Pecan Pound Cake is so soft with amazing flavor from coconut and pecans! It is a simple recipe that is guaranteed to please.
We love Italian Cream Cake so much that we've made several versions over the years! This recipe combines the coconut and pecan flavor that we love with a hint of brown sugar and caramel.
This Sweet Potato Bundt Cake is soft and delicious and combines sweet potato flavor with brown sugar, caramel icing, and a topping of crushed pecans. We have several sweet potato cake recipes on our site- try them all!
Three soft, moist maple almond cake layers are flavored with maple syrup, crushed almonds, extracts, and a heavenly almond cream cheese frosting.
Nobody would guess that this light and delicious German Chocolate Cake starts with a box of cake mix! As always, the thick and flavorful coconut pecan filling and topping take this dessert to a whole new level!
You can never go wrong with a butter pecan recipe! This delicious pound cake incorporates buttered pecans and a flavorful caramel topping.
These sweet and simple Italian Cream Cupcakes start with a box of yellow cake mix, and incorporate crushed pecans, coconut, and a fabulous cream cheese frosting! They are soft, fluffy, and delicious.
This fantastic Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake has wonderful flavor from brown sugar, caramel, and toffee bits. The cake is so moist and soft, you will love it!
These moist butter pecan cupcakes start with a cake mix, and incorporate coconut, buttered pecans, and a hint of brown sugar. They are topped with cream cheese frosting and more pecans.
This Apple Dapple Cake is especially popular in the fall but we love it year round! It is INCREDIBLY moist and has big flavor from apples, pecans, brown sugar, and caramel.
Everyone loves peanut butter and chocolate- this is a great, simple cake mix recipe!
Rich chocolate cake flavored with espresso and the crunch of toffee bits & pecans is a winning combination! Keep this recipe in mind for the chocolate (and coffee!) lovers in your life!
Lemon Almond Cake is heavenly! It is a flavor combination that we didn't realize we were missing. Once you try it, you'll want to make it again and again- the flavors balance each other perfectly.
Oh how we love these delicious scratch Almond Cupcakes! They are so moist and soft, and we've frosted them in a light, fantastic almond whipped cream cheese frosting.
Almond and coconut are the perfect pair in this fluffy, flavorful Almond Coconut Cake recipe! We just love coconut desserts, and this recipe is no exception-- such a moist, light, and delicious cake.
Just the peanut butter frosting alone is reason enough to make these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes! You will love the combination of rich, soft chocolate cake with creamy peanut butter frosting. So good!
This Banana Rum Cake starts with a cake mix and is over-the-top delicious with brown sugar, bananas, cinnamon, a buttery rum glaze, and a flavorful pecan topping.
This luscious Cherry Almond Cake is a wonderful dessert for any occasion. Chopped maraschino cherries are folded into rich almond cake batter for moist layers with the perfect balance of flavors.
We absolutely love this buttery, velvety soft Pistachio Pound Cake recipe! It is simple to make and the flavor is fantastic.