50+ Mother's Day Cakes
Today we are sharing a great collection of favorite Mother's Day Cakes!
If you need a little Mother's Day cake inspiration, this roundup of favorites is for you!
The cakes that I'm featuring in this collection include lots of springtime flowers, pretty piping, birds, soft colors, and fruit flavored cakes. All of these are free cake decorating tutorials!
Many of these cake ideas are perfect for other occasions as well, but as I was thinking about Mother's Day cake ideas, these are the cake ideas that came to mind!
Some of our most popular are our white velvet cake, elegant chocolate flowers cake, buttercream ranunculus cake, and lemon cake from scratch.
Enjoy the Roundup!
We hope that you enjoy these Mother's Day Cakes! If you give any of them a try, we would love for you to leave a comment and photo below!
We also have tons of cake decorating tutorials and recipes in our Recipes & Tutorials Section!
Roundup of Mother's Day Cake Ideas and Recipes!
Sharing our favorite Mother's Day cake designs and recipes! You will find so many fun Mother's Day cake designs and light and delicious cake recipes in this collection of favorites.
Sweet Mother's Day Cake- {Free Cake Video}
This cute and easy stick figures cake is perfect for Mother's Day celebrations! This is such a sweet and cheerful cake- tailor the stick figures to reflect your family!
Lemon Velvet Cake
This moist Lemon Velvet Cake is named for its soft, velvety texture. This lemon layer cake is filled with lemon curd and whipped cream, and frosted with lemon buttercream frosting. It is the perfect dessert for spring and summer!
Easy Peach Upside Down Cake
This ultra moist Peach Upside Down Cake is so flavorful and impressive! Nobody would guess that it starts with a box of cake mix!
Raunculus Fields Cake- Painting with Buttercream Tutorial
No matter what your level of cake decorating, this technique for beautiful buttercream ranunculus flowers is surprisingly simple!
Layered Buttercream Cake- Free Video Tutorial
Learn how to make a beautiful layered buttercream cake in this free cake video tutorial! We love this simple, elegant cake decorating technique!
Pink Velvet Cake
This moist Pink Velvet Cake is a delicious vanilla cake recipe with velvety soft texture.
White Velvet Cake
This white cake is moist, flavorful, and velvety soft! It's the only white cake recipe you'll ever need.
Elegant Chocolate Flowers for Cakes
These elegant flowers are made with simple candy coating! They are surprisingly easy to make- we'll show you how in our free tutorial!
Palette Knife Roses in Buttercream
Elegant palette knife painting is always in style! Learn how to make simple roses in this quick tutorial!
Lemon Cream Cake (Doctored Cake Mix)
This moist Lemon Cream Cake starts with a cake mix! It consists of soft, moist lemon cake layers filled with lemon cream filling and frosted with lemon cream cheese frosting! Perfect for the lemon lovers in your life!
Elegant Textured Buttercream Flowers
Learn how to decorate cakes with elegant textured buttercream flowers! So simple and beautiful!
Homemade White Cake
This homemade white cake recipe is ultra moist, soft and tender. It has amazing flavor and would be perfect for all sorts of fillings and frostings!
Buttermilk Pound Cake
This Buttermilk Pound Cake is heavenly! It's buttery flavor and soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture as made it an instant favorite at our house. It is so simple to make, too!
Strawberry Coconut Cake
This moist, fluffy Strawberry Coconut Cake is so delicious! Keep this recipe in mind for spring and summer celebrations!
Buttercream Ribbon Rose Heart Cake- Free Video Tutorial
This sweet Ribbon Rose Sweetheart Cake is from our free cake video tutorial section! Make it for someone special!
Strawberry Cupcakes
These moist, light, and flavorful Strawberry Cupcakes from scratch are so delicious! They are a great choice for Mother's Day, spring or summer celebrations, and for the strawberry lovers in your life!
Fondant Ruffle Rose Cake- Free Tutorial!
This lovely ruffle cake is from our free step by step blog tutorial! This is such a great way to add elegance to your cakes. You can add a pretty ruffle rose to the tops of your cakes as well!
Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Recipe
This ultra moist vanilla buttermilk cake is perfect for any occasion and tastes amazing with every flavor of frosting! We especially love it with vanilla frosting, cream cheese, or fruit fillings and frostings!
Lemon Pineapple Cake
This refreshing Lemon Pineapple Cake is light, fluffy, and perfect for spring and summer gatherings!
Five Flavor Pound Cake
This delicious pound cake is moist with a tight crumb, and five layers of flavor from the extracts added to the cake batter. It is perfect for Mother's Day or any special occasion. You wll love how simple this scratch recipe is to prepare!
Buttercream Tulip Cake
Beautiful buttercream tulips! I love all kinds of buttercream flowers and tulips are some of my favorites!
Orange Cake
This soft, fluffy Orange Cake from scratch is the best! So light, fruity, and flavorful. We've filled it with sweetened whipped cream and frosted with cream cheese frosting. Don't miss this delicious recipe!
Meringue Roses Cake- Video Tutorial
This beautiful cake features simple, elegant meringue roses. Perfect for all sorts of special occasions! Learn to make it in our free cake tutorial!
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.
Sweet Birdhouse Cake- Member Cake Video
This cute birdhouse cake is from our Member Cake Video Tutorial section! It is such a fun little cake for spring and summer celebrations, and works great for Mother's Day also! This is a buttercream frosted cake with fondant accents.
Raspberry Layer Cake
This moist Raspberry Layer Cake from scratch is so delicious flavorful! We use frozen raspberries for this recipe, making it a .year-round favorite!
Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This decadent lemon cream cheese pound cake has a fine, moist crumb and wonderful richness thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter. Perfect simple recipe for Mother's Day, spring and summer celebrations, and more!
Lemon Orange Pound Cake
Moist, flavorful Lemon Orange Pound Cake! This buttery, moist pound cake has wonderful citrus flavor.
Strawberry Pound Cake
This moist Strawberry Pound Cake is heavenly! We love the strawberry flavor- it's the perfect cake recipe for spring and summer, or for the strawberry lovers in your life!
Cascading Rosettes of Buttercream- Video Tutorial
From our free cake video tutorial section, these elegant cascading rosettes are perfect for so many special occasions and are surprisingly simple to create!
Pound Cake Recipe- A Classic Southern Favorite
This classic pound cake is so moist and easy to make! Our favorite! Serve it just as it is, or topped with berries and cream!
How to Make Petit Fours- Free Tutorial!
Learn how to make petit fours the easy way in the free cake video tutorial!
Lemon Coconut Cake with Lemon Curd Filling
You'll love these moist lemon cake layers with coconut baked right into the batter. The filling of lemon curd and whipped coconut cream cheese frosting is heavenly!
Bouquet of Cupcakes! - A Blog Tutorial
Learn how to make a beautiful bouquet of cupcake flowers in this free step by step blog tutorial!
Buttercream Ranunculus Cupcakes~ Cake Decorating Video
Beautiful buttercream ranunculus flowers are not difficult to create! Watch our free video!
Homemade Strawberry Cake
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!
Lemon Orange Layer Cake
This Lemon Orange Cake recipe is so moist and bursting with citrus flavor!
Boston Cream Cupcakes (cake mix)
These ultra moist Boston Cream Cupcakes start with a cake mix! Soft, fluffy yellow cupcakes are filled with vanilla cream and topped with a simple chocolate glaze. This impressive dessert is sure to please a crowd!
Lemon Buttermilk Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This moist and delicious Lemon Buttermilk Cake with Whipped Lemon Mascarpone frosting is so light, moist, and flavorful!
Owl Love You Forever!- Free Cake Decorating Video
I love owls! This sweet "Owl Love You Forever" cake is perfect for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, and more!
Birdhouse Cake Toppers~ A Cake Decorating Blog Tutorial
These sweet birdhouse cake toppers are perfect for spring & summer cakes!
Lemon Blueberry Cake
This homemade Lemon Blueberry Cake is the perfect balance of lemon and blueberry flavor! So moist and perfect for spring and summer gatherings!
Love You Bunches! Elephant Cake Tutorial
A little bit of sweetness- this cute free blog tutorial is perfect for Mother's Day!
Buttercream Camellias and Elegant Piping- A Free Cake Video
Learn how to pipe buttercream camellias as well as an elegant piped floral design around the sides in this free cake tutorial!
Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
All the wonderful flavor of banana pudding in cake form! We love this amazing recipe!
Pineapple Cake Recipe
This Pineapple Cake Recipe is the best! Moist yellow cake layers with a luscious Pineapple & Cream Filling!
Orange Dreamsicle Cake- Delicious Homemade Recipe
This moist and delicious cake tastes just like an Orange Dreamsicle! Moist orange cake layers with orange cream filling and orange cream cheese frosting!
Carrot Cake from Scratch
This scratch Carrot Cake is my FAVORITE cake, and one of our most popular recipes on the site! Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, pecans, coconut, and spices!
Birdcage Cupcakes~ Cake Decorating Blog Tutorial
More bird cuteness! These sweet cupcakes are from a free step by step blog tutorial! They are perfect for spring celebrations!
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake
Moist and Delicious Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake- this moist layer cake has so much flavor!
Lemon Cake: A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
Nobody would guess that this amazing lemon cake recipe all starts with a simple cake mix! So moist and lemony!
Gum Paste Peony- Video Tutorial
Learn to make this beautiful buttercream design with elegant gum paste peonies in our free cake decorating tutorial! Perfect for Mother's Day and all sorts of occasions!
Elegant Chocolate Peony & Decorative Accents- Video
The chocolate peony topper is the star of this elegant cake design!
Buttercream Palette Knife Painting-Free Cake Tutorial
This pretty palette-knife inspired design is perfect for all sorts of occasions from Mother's Day to birthdays and more! Learn how to make it in our free cake video!
Birdhouse Cake- A Cake Decorating Video Tutorial
We love bird houses! Keep this cake design in mind for Mother's Day, spring celebrations, and the bird lovers in your life!
Birdcage Cake - A Cake Decorating Video
This pretty birdhouse cake is from our member section! It is buttercream with fondant and gum paste accents!
Buttercream Floral Wreath- A Cake Decorating Video
We just love buttercream flowers! Keep this lovely wreath in mind for your special occasion cakes!
Hummingbird Topper with Fluffy Frosting Flowers
Learn how to make this beautiful floral cake design with a painted hummingbird cake topper in our free cake video!
Pink Champagne Cake {Scratch Recipe}
This flavorful Pink Champagne Cake will make any occasion feel more special!
How to Pipe Large Frosting Flowers!
We love the puffy, fluffy, frosting flowers! Learn to make them in our free cake tutorial!
How to Pipe a BIG Buttercream Rose- Cake Video
If you love buttercream roses, you'll really love this gigantic version! So simple to create and the look is beautiful!
Dogwoods in Buttercream-Cake Decorating Video Tutorial
I just love dogwood blossoms! This buttercream cake design is a favorite from our member section.
Buttercream Hydrangeas- A Cake Video Tutorial
Large buttercream hydrangeas are some of the simplest yet most elegant flowers to create! (From our member section on MyCakeSchool.com).
Colorful Striped Chocolate Curls- Cake Tutorial
These striped chocolate curls are so much fun! I love mounding curls on top of cakes and cupcakes! (From our member section on MyCakeSchool.com!)
Buttercream Irises- A Video Tutorial
Learn how to make beautiful irises in this free cake tutorial!
Pansy Garden Cake- A Cake Decorating Video
Buttercream pansies with watering can cake topper! This is a favorite for spring!
Great RoundUp so many fabulous cakes! It's going to be a very different Mother's Day this year.
They all look so delicious. Why didn't I found them during Mother's day but I am going to try some of this cake! They look so yummy and pretty.
It looks delicious. Thank you for the recipe.