When you someone you love has a birthday you want to make them the BEST birthday cake. I want to help you find the perfect cake for your birthday party, so I am sharing my top 20 birthday cake recipes! Any one of these recipes will make you start counting down until the next birthday to make it again.

Top 20 birthday cakes

Chocolate Cake Recipes

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1. Chocolate Truffle Cake

If you love chocolate you will love this rich and decadent chocolate cake with chocolate truffles. This makes any birthday feel like the most important day of the year.

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2. Mini Chocolate Cake

When you have a smaller party, but still want all of the chocolate goodness this cake is here for you! Full sized chocolate flavor in a small cake.

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3. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chocolate and peanut butter are the most classic combination and make this chocolate peanut butter cake a winning combination.

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4. White Chocolate Cake

When your birthday person is more into white chocolate you can be sure indulging them with this white chocolate cake will make their day!

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5. Chocolate Cookie Brownie Cake

If you need a cake that will really WOW then try this chocolate cookie brownie cake with edible cookie dough baked into the cake. With more edible cookie dough on top it always makes an impression.

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6. Snickers Cake

If your birthday person is more of a chocolate candy fan then this Snickers cake will hit the spot with peanut butter frosting and salted caramel.

Vanilla Cake Recipes

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7. Funfetti Cake

Nothing says birthday like a Funfetti cake! This cake is moist, tender, delicious, and most importantly, fun!

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8. Mini Vanilla Cake

If you love vanilla and have a smaller party this cake is a no-brainer choice. It is a classic cake flavor for a reason!

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9. White Forest Cake

This white forest cake is a white chocolate version of a black forest cake. It has cherry pie filling in it to make sure you really love it.

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10. Blueberry Jam Cake

This is a vanilla layered cake with a blueberry jam filling. It is topped with cream cheese frosting!

Fruity Cake Recipes

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11. Apple Cinnamon Cake

Apples, cinnamon, and caramel are married blissfully in this moist apple cinnamon cake.

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12. Strawberry Vanilla Cake

This strawberry vanilla cake is perfect for families like mine that LOVE strawberries. Strawberries are the best fruit to say I love you.

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13. Vanilla Raspberry Cake

Raspberry is very close to taking the crown from strawberries for the best fruit to say I love you, and this cake makes a very strong case for it.

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14. Lemon Blackberry Cake

This lemon blackberry cake is one of my mom’s favorite cakes of all time. If your birthday person is a blackberry fan then this is the cake for them!

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15. Blueberry Chocolate Cake

If you want a great fruit flavor, but don’t want to give up on your chocolate fix then go for this blueberry chocolate cake! It is so soft and moist.

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16. Chocolate Raspberry Cake

This is a moist chocolate cake with a raspberry cream cheese frosting.

Variety Cake Recipes

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16. Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cake

I love ice cream cakes and I can’t complete this list without including my favorite ice cream cake recipe, the cookie dough ice cream cake!

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17. Oreo Cake

I love to bake with Oreos, and this Oreo cake has become a favorite in my house. You can’t go wrong with this delicious cake!

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18. Biscoff Cake

Like many other people I find Biscoff irresistible, so I had to make this irresistible Biscoff cake. It is SO hard to stop eating it!

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19. Cookie Dough Cake

This cookie dough cake uses edible cookie dough for that amazing cookie dough flavor without the guilt of eating it while you bake cookies!

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