Our Most Popular Cake Recipes of 2023
Today we thought it would be fun to take a look back at our most popular cake recipes of 2023!
Out of the hundreds of cakes in our recipes section, we are featuring our top 25 most popular, starting with our most visited cake recipe and working our way down.
Some of these are classic cakes that have been favorites on our site for years (like carrot cake and lemon cake), and others are much more recent (like our pineapple coconut pound cake). We love them all!
We hope that you'll find something that you'd like to try, whether for a holiday dessert, birthday cake, or just because. Thanks so much for being a part of My Cake School, enjoy scrolling through!
Most Popular Cakes of 2023
Sharing our favorite cake recipes of 2023! You'll find everything in this list from classic scratch cakes to new recipes, doctored cake mix recipes, and more!
Carrot Cake Recipe
No matter what the season, this homemade carrot cake is at the top of the list of our most popular recipes! It is so moist, with wonderful flavor from carrots, cinnamon, coconut, crushed pineapple, and pecans!
White Velvet Cake
This beautiful and delicious white cake is named for it's velvety soft texture! We've gotten such great feedback on this cake recipe, which has a "secret ingredient" of cream cheese in the cake batter.
Lemon Cheesecake Cake
This Lemon Cheesecake Cake is guaranteed to please a crowd! A creamy layer of lemon cheesecake is sandwiched between two homemade lemon buttermilk cake layers in this impressive dessert!
Lemon Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This scratch Lemon Cake has been a favorite on our site for years! We love it with lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting!
Lemon Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This easy Lemon Cake is a doctored cake mix recipe! It is moist, lemony, and perfect for any occasion!
Vanilla Velvet Cake
This moist Vanilla Velvet Cake has a fine crumb and a velvety soft texture. Its wonderful vanilla flavor tastes amazing with a variety of fillings and frostings!
Banana Pudding Cupcakes (Cake Mix Recipe)
These ultra moist and delicious Banana Pudding Cupcakes have all of the flavor that you love in banana pudding! Banana cupcakes, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, and vanilla wafers make for the perfect dessert (and it all starts with a cake mix)!
Almond Cake (A Scratch Recipe)
This Almond Cake has amazing flavor and is so soft and moist! If you are a fan of almond, put this cake on your must-bake list!
Italian Cream Cake (Scratch Recipe)
This Italian Cream Cake is a great classic recipe that is flavored with pecans and coconut! We love this recipe year-round, and especially at the holidays!
Orange Dreamsicle Cake- Delicious Homemade Recipe
This moist Orange Dreamsicle Cake is a longtime favorite on our site! Moist orange cake layers are filled with a simple orange cream filling, and frosted with orange cream cheese frosting. It tastes just like an orange dreamsicle! If you love citrusy cakes, this is a great one.
Lemon Velvet Cake
This Lemon Velvet Cake is yet another of our popular "velvet cake" recipes! It is delightfully lemony and is named for its velvety soft texture (thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter)! Keep this recipe in mind for the lemon lovers in your life!
Easy Carrot Cake Recipe
This Carrot Cake Recipe starts with a box of cake mix! It has wonderful flavor from carrots, coconut, pineapple, cinnamon, and pecans! We've frosted it with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
Homemade Strawberry Cake
We love this homemade strawberry cake recipe! It is moist with a fine crumb, and delicious strawberry flavor! It is filled with whipped cream and strawberries, and frosted with strawberry cream cheese frosting!
Brownie Cake
This easy, moist Brownie Cake has fabulous brownie flavor and it all starts with a box of brownie mix!
Strawberry Cake (Doctored Cake Mix Recipe)
This delicious, easy Strawberry Cake starts with a box of cake mix, and has great strawberry flavor from strawberry jello as well as strawberry puree!
Chocolate Mousse Cake (Cake Mix)
Another delicious doctored cake mix recipe! This chocolate mousse cake couldn't be simpler to make! You will love the combination of moist chocolate cake layers and easy chocolate mousse filling!
Butter Pecan Pound Cake
This Butter Pecan Pound Cake has wonderful flavor from brown sugar, chopped buttered pecans, and caramel!
Orange Cake
This homemade fluffy orange cake recipe is moist and soft with delicious orange flavor!
Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This rich and buttery Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake is so soft and moist with wonderful lemon flavor!
Pink Champagne Cake {Scratch Recipe}
This moist Pink Champagne Cake is a longtime favorite for special occasions! It has a light pink champagne flavor that is sure to make any gathering feel more special! We love it for New Year's Eve, anniversaries, and more!
Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake
This decadent Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake is a new recipe on our site and it is already one of our most popular! Pineapple and coconut are such a delicious combination, and this scratch recipe is so simple to put together!
Red Velvet Cake - Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This moist Red Velvet Cake starts with a cake mix! It has a light chocolate flavor and is perfect for the holidays! We love it with cream cheese frosting.
Buttermilk Pound Cake
This super easy Buttermilk Pound Cake has amazing flavor! It is soft, has a fine crumb, and delicious vanilla flavor!
Strawberry Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This moist Strawberry Cake is another go-to recipe for the strawberry lovers!
Chocolate Bundt Cake
This moist, soft, and rich Chocolate Bundt Cake is sure to please the chocolate lovers in your life! We've topped it with a rich ganache and chocolate buttercream roses!
Very classic and tropical tastes for 2023! :-) Awesome! Looking forward to your 2024 cakes :-)
Gonna make them all.