Winter Cakes for the Holidays
Today we're featuring some of our favorite winter cakes for the holidays! If you're in need of some cake recipe inspiration, we hope that you'll find what you're looking for in this list! These flavorful recipes are sure to please a crowd!
In this collection you'll find classic cake recipes, bundt cakes and pound cakes, cake mix recipes and more! Enjoy scrolling though.
Also, if you'd interested in cake decorating ideas for the holidays, we have lots of ideas to share with you in our tutorials section!
Winter Cakes for the Holidays
Sharing a collection of our favorite winter cakes for the holidays!
Italian Cream Cake (Scratch Recipe)
This classic Italian Cream Cake is another favorite of ours (and our readers)! If you love Italian Cream Cake, you must try this recipe! The combination of coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting make this light & flavorful dessert a winner for the holiday celebrations!
German Chocolate Cake Recipe
This moist, classic cake recipe combines light German Chocolate Flavor with coconut and pecans. Always a favorite!
Eggnog Rum Cake
This easy dessert combines everything you love in a rum cake (rich, buttery, brown sugar and rum flavor) with the warm spices of eggnog! Nobody would guess that this recipe starts with a mix!
Lemon Mascarpone Cake
This ultra moist Lemon Mascarpone Cake is soft, light, has a fine crumb, and wonderful lemon flavor.
Banana Rum Cake (from cake mix)
This ultra moist rum-infused bundt cake starts with a cake mix, and has wonderful banana and brown sugar flavor!
White Velvet Cake
This velvety soft White Velvet Cake is one of our most popular recipes! It is so light and moist with a very fine crumb and wonderful texture, thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter!
Rum Cake- Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This rum-infused bundt cake has a wonderful balance of moist yellow cake, rum, and pecans. It's heavenly! We have a few easy rum cakes in this recipe (and evern more in our recipes section)- delicious for the holidays!
Coconut Pecan Pound Cake
We had to include this Coconut Pecan Pound Cake in our collection! It is rich, simple to make, and has fantastic flavor and is ultra moist.
Easy Boston Cream Pie Recipe
This super easy Boston Cream Pie recipe is one of our most popular cake mix recipes and is certain to make any occasion feel more special!
Almond Raspberry Swirl Cake
We've received so many great comments on this scratch recipe which combines almond and raspberry flavor along with cream cheese frosting. As an added bonus, it is beautiful when sliced!
Lemon Ricotta Cake
This rich Lemon Ricotta Cake is so decadent and delicious- you will love how simple it is to make!
Red Velvet Cake
We have a few red velvet cakes on our site- this layer cake is a longtime favorite of ours! The sour cream in the cake batter adds richness and a wonderful texture.
Chocolate Cake from Scratch
We LOVE this rich chocolate cake recipe! It is so moist with fantastic chocolate flavor.
Black Forest Cake Recipe
The rich chocolate flavor of this Black Forest Cake combined with cherries, cherry liqueur, and whipped cream is heavenly! This beautiful cake is perfect for the holiday dessert table!
Chocolate Italian Cream Cake Recipe
This delicious twist on classic Italian Cream Cake combines chocolate, coconut, and pecans!
Oreo Cake- Delicious Scratch Cake Recipe
This rich Oreo Cake combines chocolate cake layers and Oreo Buttercream Frosting! Delicious!
Marble Pound Cake
This Marble Pound Cake has the perfect balance of chocolate and vanilla flavor! It is buttery with fantastic flavor and a wonderful texture.
Pistachio Cake
This Pistachio Cake has such a wonderful combination of flavors, with crushed pistachios, vanilla and almond extracts, and classic cream cheese frosting. Keep this delicious dessert in mind for your next special occasion!
Coconut Cream Cake
Coconut cakes are perfect for the holidays! In this recipe, moist coconut cake layers are filled with an indulgent coconut pastry cream, and frosted with a light and airy whipped coconut cream cheese frosting.
Almond Cake (A Scratch Recipe)
This super moist Almond Cake has fantastic flavor and is filled and frosted with almond cream cheese frosting. So delicious!
Lemon Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This easy lemon cake has been a favorite on our site for many years- it is a great doctored cake mix recipe.
Pina Colada Pound Cake
This Pina Colada Pound Cake is so flavorful, combining coconut, pineapple, and a hint of rum!
Pineapple Pound Cake
If you love Pineapple, don't miss this delicious Pineapple Pound Cake! So rich, delicious, and simple to make!
Easy Pineapple Upside Down Bundt Cake
This easy Pineapple Upside Down Bundt Cake is prepared with a buttery brown sugar glaze, which coats the pineapple and maraschino cherry topping and seeps into the outer layer of the yellow cake as it bakes. So good!
Pineapple Cake Recipe
This moist Pineapple Cake recipe consists of delicious layers of yellow cake, filled and topped with a luscious (easy!) pineapple cream filling, and cream cheese frosting!
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Moist homemade banana cake layers are filled with butter pecan cream cheese filling and frosted with cream cheese frosting in this delicious dessert!
Carrot Cake Recipe
This Carrot Cake recipe is my personal favorite! If you love carrot cakes, you cannot beat this recipe- it has carrots, cinnamon, coconut, pecans, crushed pineapple, and cream cheese frosting- heavenly!
Hummingbird Cake {A Cake Mix Recipe}
This ultra moist Hummingbird Cake starts with a cake mix! The add-ins of crushed pineapple, mashed banana, chopped pecans, and cinnamon give it a wonderful "from-scratch" flavor!
Gingerbread Cake
If you love gingerbread, this recipe is for you! Ultra moist gingerbread cake layers have fantastic flavor and are filled and frosted with a spiced cream cheese frosting.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cake
White Chocolate and Peppermint are perfect together in this festive holiday dessert!
Eggnog Latte Cake
You cannot go wrong with this rich and delicious cake- spiced eggnog and a hint of espresso make such a flavorful combination!
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake
This rich Sweet Potato Bundt Cake has fantastic flavor from sweet potatoes, brown sugar, and spices.
Eggnog Pound Cake
This easy homemade Eggnog Pound Cake is another favorite for the holidays. It is so rich and delicious with fantastic spiced flavor.
Spice Cupcakes
These moist spice cupcakes are perfect for the winter months when we are craving all things spiced and cozy! We've topped them with a dreamy homemade cream cheese frosting.
Red Velvet Bundt Cake
This Red Velvet Bundt Cake is so simple to make and has a light cocoa flavor and very fine, soft texture.
Gingerbread Cupcakes
We love gingerbread desserts! These gingerbread cupcakes are no exception- fantastic spiced flavor- super moist- and topped with cream cheese frosting.
Italian Cream Cupcakes (Cake Mix)
These super easy Italian Cream Cupcakes are a delicious combination of flavors- coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting. Nobody would guess that they start with a simple cake mix!
Red Velvet Pound Cake
This decadent Red Velvet Pound Cake has fantastic flavor and the richness that we all love in a slice of pound cake! You'll notice a light cocoa flavor which pairs perfectly with cream cheese frosting.
Peppermint Mocha Cake
Peppermint, chocolate, and espresso are the perfect combination in this rich and delicious Peppermint Mocha Cake!
Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake
This fantastic Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake (with peppermint glaze) is not only delicious but is also so pretty when sliced!
Eggnog Cake with Eggnog Buttercream
Bring on the eggnog! This moist, rich, spiced layer cake is so flavorful and perfect for winter gatherings!
Hummingbird Cake Recipe
A classic! This hummingbird cake is a longtime go-to recipe for any holiday! It combines flavors o banana, crushed pineapple, cinnamon, and pecans. We've filled and frosted it with cream cheese frosting.
Coconut Cake Recipe from Scratch
Another coconut cake! We have many coconut cakes on our site- this classic recipe combines layers of moist homemade yellow cake, coconut filling, and coconut cream cheese frosting.
Gingerbread Cake -A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This light and delicious gingerbread cake is very moist and flavorful! Nobody would guess that it all starts with a box of cake mix!
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
This red velvet cheesecake cake is not only decadent and delicious (with a layer of cheesecake in the center!!) but it is also SO pretty when sliced! This is such a beautiful holiday cake.
Lemon Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
Lemon Cakes are a year-round favorite and this homemade Lemon Cake is one of our most popular! We've filled it with lemon curd and lemon cream cheese frosting.
How to choose one! LoL :-) Great selection :-)
Thanks Teri! Yes, it is always to choose which one! ;0)