50+ Summer Cake Recipes

This light and fruity Strawberry Shortcake Cake is a delicious twist on classic Strawberry Shortcake. It combines layers of moist buttermilk pound cake, sweetened whipped cream, and fresh strawberries!

This moist, soft lemonade layer cake is so lemony and delicious! We've frosted it with lemon cream cheese frosting.

We love this Peach Pound Cake recipe! The cake itself is so moist and flavorful, but the diced peaches in the cake take it to another level. Keep this recipe in mind for your summer celebrations (or just because)!

This moist Pineapple Upside Down Sheet Cake is so delicious with its light pineapple flavor and buttery brown sugar glaze. It is a fun spin on a classic cake recipe that can be whipped up in no time. Keep this dessert in mind for your next special occasion!

There's just nothing better than the combination of coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting! This Italian Cream Cake is a classic southern go-to dessert no matter what the season! It is moist, light, and so delicious.

These soft, moist coconut cupcakes are a new favorite of ours! If you are a fan of coconut desserts, these flavorful cupcakes belong on your must-bake list.

This decadent Orange Pound Cake is buttery and soft with a light citrus flavor.

This buttermilk pound cake is a velvety soft vanilla cake with a fine crumb and melt-in-your-mouth-texture. It is such a quick and simple scratch pound cake, and tastes amazing all on its own, or topped with berries and cream.

This moist Lemon Cake from scratch is a longtime favorite on our site! We love it with lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting!

This amazing scratch carrot cake recipe has wonderful flavor from carrots, cinnamon, pecans, coconut, and crushed pineapple. It is such a popular recipe that we can't have a roundup of favorites without including it! It's the only carrot cake recipe you'll ever need. ;0)

This Limoncello Cake has wonderful lemon flavor, a soft texture and fine crumb, and a light Limoncello flavor. It is the perfect celebration cake for spring and summer gatherings!

This lemon cheesecake cake is a combination of two favorites- our homemade lemon buttermilk cake, and cheesecake !

We have a decadent new cake recipe to share with you for easy Chocolate Mousse Cake! This one's for all of the chocolate lovers! Nobody would guess that it all begins with a box of cake mix.

This fantastically moist Lemon Mascarpone Cake is soft, light, has a fine crumb, and wonderful lemon flavor. For this recipe, we've used mascarpone in the cake batter as well as the frosting, resulting in a creamy texture and rich, indulgent flavor.

We're happy to say that we've found an orange cake, filling, and frosting combination that we absolutely love. This fantastic Orange Dreamsicle Cake tastes just as you would imagine- like a Dreamsicle in cake form! It is the perfect dessert no matter what time of year, but we especially love it in the summer!

This ultra moist Pistachio Pound Cake has amazing flavor, with flecks of pistachios in every bite! It is a simple scratch recipe to make, and perfect for so many occasions, from birthdays to potlucks, holidays and more. 

This moist and buttery Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake has a delicious balance of pineapple and coconut in every slice.

This impressive dessert is prepared with a buttery brown sugar glaze, which coats the pineapple and maraschino cherry topping and seeps into the outer layer of the cake as it bakes.

We are excited to share our first pear cake recipe with you! With its light pear flavor, tender crumb, and homemade caramel glaze, you cannot go wrong with this delicious dessert. It is heavenly!

This delicious Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake is the perfect celebration cake- it is moist, decadent, and so pretty when sliced!

You can't beat a slice of homemade Lemon Pound Cake, with it's fine crumb and velvety melt-in-your-mouth texture.

This easy brownie cake is for all of the brownie lovers out there! It has all of the wonderful flavor of brownies in the form of a two layer cake. Nobody would guess that it all starts with a box of brownie mix!

If you are a fan of angel food cakes, you will love this delicious recipe, topped with homemade whipped cream and berries.

This Raspberry Layer Cake is moist, soft, and light, and has wonderful raspberry flavor from the raspberry puree reduction mixed into the cake batter. It is perfect for spring and summer celebrations!

If you love blueberry desserts, you're going to fall in love with this cake, which not only has blueberry puree in the cake batter, but is speckled with whole blueberries, ensuring wonderful blueberry flavor in every bite.

This fresh Berry Chantilly Cake with it's moist vanilla velvet cake layers, chantilly cream, and fresh berries is the perfect dessert for spring and summer celebrations!

This Blueberry Coconut Pound cake is perfectly moist with a fine crumb and wonderful balance of flavors. It is a delicious, buttery pound cake with sweetened flaked coconut and blueberries. We love this recipe for spring and summer! If you are a fan of pound cake or fresh and fruity cake flavors, you will love this recipe!

Almond and Raspberry are the perfect combination in this moist Almond Raspberry Swirl Cake! 

If you are looking for the perfect homemade white cake recipe, you're in luck- this is the one! It has become our new go-to. This cake is light, velvety soft, flavorful, and super moist.

Lemon lovers, this homemade Lemon Velvet Cake recipe is for you! We have several go-to lemon cake recipes on our site, and this latest addition with it's soft, velvety texture and wonderful lemon flavor is sure to become a new favorite!

This incredibly moist, fluffy cake would pair perfectly with a number of fillings and frostings, and has amazing strawberry flavor!

If you love classic Italian Cream Cake, with its flavorful combination of pecans, flaked coconut, and cream cheese frosting, you will love these easy Italian Cream Cupcakes! They are so fluffy and moist, and nobody would guess that the recipe starts with a box of yellow cake mix.

This light and fruity Strawberry Lemonade Cake consists of moist strawberry cake layers glazed with lemon, filled with fresh strawberries, and frosted with lemon cream cheese buttercream.

This Strawberry Cheesecake Cake is sure to impress, with homemade strawberry cake layers, fresh strawberries, cream cheese frosting, and a layer of creamy cheesecake.

This homemade Hummingbird Cake recipe has has amazing flavor from banana, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon. This impressive go-to dessert is sure to earn a place in your file of favorites

This Italian Cream Bundt Cake is AMAZING- it is so moist, has wonderful flavor from coconut and pecans, and it all starts with a box of cake mix!

The flavor combination of tangy lemon balanced with sweet blueberries is one of our favorites. You will love this soft, moist cake recipe.

In this delicious Banana Pudding Cake Recipe, moist banana cake layers are filled with vanilla cream, sliced bananas, and vanilla wafers, frosted with cream cheese frosting, and topped with whipped cream. It is such a flavorful, beautiful, cake!

If you are a fan of banana pudding, and easy and delicious cake mix recipes, you will love this flavorful dessert!

Banana cupcakes are filled with vanilla cream filling, frosted with cream cheese frosting, and topped with a dollop of whipped cream and a mini Vanilla Wafer.

This decadent and flavorful banana rum cake is so easy to make, and is certain to make any occasion feel more special. If you love banana cakes and rum cakes, this simple doctored cake mix recipe is sure to become an instant favorite!

This easy Peach Upside Down Cake, topped with sliced peaches and a brown sugar glaze, is surprisingly easy to make. Nobody would guess that this impressive and flavorful bundt cake starts with a box of cake mix.

Moist vanilla cake layers are filled with an indulgent coconut pastry cream, and frosted with a light and airy whipped coconut cream cheese frosting in this delicious Coconut Cream Cake recipe.

This delicious pineapple cake consists of moist yellow cake layers that are filled and topped with an amazing, easy Pineapple and Cream Filling.

This luscious peach cake consists of three flavorful cake layers with bits of peach folded into the batter. Once baked, the cake layers are brushed with peach juice followed by a thin layer of peach preserves, and filled with an easy, light, peaches and cream filling.

In this delicious dessert, moist banana cake layers are filled with a heavenly banana cream filling for a Banana Cream Cake that is sure to bring rave reviews.

These moist Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes are easy to make with a box of cake mix, and taste heavenly with a swirl of lemon cream cheese frosting!

 These homemade Margarita cupcakes (which are based in part on our Lemon Cupcake Recipe), have a light lime flavor and are frosted with a simple tequila cream cheese frosting.

In this fabulous Pina Colada Cake, moist coconut layers are brushed with a rum syrup and filled with pineapple. It is such a flavorful cake recipe and one of our most popular for summer gatherings!

This moist, buttery Pineapple Pound Cake is wonderfully decadent, with just the right amount of pineapple flavor

This delicious Key Lime Pound Cake is buttery and decadent with amazing flavor. It has a soft, moist crumb and bright key lime flavor, making it a perfect dessert for all sorts of occasions!

This ultra moist Pina Colada Pound Cake has wonderful flavor from crushed pineapple, coconut, and rum glaze. It is a simple scratch recipe that is guaranteed to please a crowd, no matter what the season!

The star flavors of this Five Flavor Pound Cake Recipe come from vanilla, lemon, coconut, rum, and butter extracts. This cake recipe, which is based on our popular buttermilk pound cake, is moist with a fine crumb, and has amazing flavor.

The combination of soft strawberry coconut cake layers with coconut whipped cream filling and coconut cream cheese frosting is divine in this Strawberry Coconut Cake recipe.

These Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes are light, fluffy, and flavorful! Moist strawberry cupcakes are filled and frosted with lemon whipped cream cheese frosting. Keep this delicious cupcake recipe in mind for spring and summer!

We've never met a pound cake that we didn't love, and today's Coconut Lime Pound Cake is no exception. It is moist, rich, and flavored with lime juice, flaked coconut, extracts, and zest. It's a great dessert no matter what the season, but we especially love it for spring and summer!

This delicious dessert consists of our go-to recipe for chocolate cupcakes paired with an easy, flavorful mint buttercream filling and frosting. They are super moist and soft with the perfect balance of mint and chocolate. 

A creamy, flavorful layer of strawberry and blueberry-filled cheesecake is sandwiched between two moist vanilla cake layers and filled with whipped cream and fresh berries in this amazing Berry Cheesecake Cake dessert.

This fluffy orange cake is so moist and flavorful! In this amazing dessert, scratch orange cake layers are filled with a light sweetened whipped cream, and frosted with cream cheese frosting.

These moist, fluffy Lime Coconut Cupcakes are great for spring and summer! They are so light and fruity, and perfect for all sorts of occasions, from birthdays to baby showers, potlucks and more.