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Our Best Birthday Cakes

Celebrate your favorite person with these delicious birthday cakes from NYT Cooking.

Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Yossy Arefi.

Recipes

Pumpkin Layer Cake With Caramel Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1720 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,720
2 hours, plus cooling
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World’s Best Chocolate Cake
Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
6997 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
6,997
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Classic Coconut Cake
Alison Roman
1602 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,602
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Gingerbread Sheet Cake With Whipped Chocolate Ganache
Yossy Arefi
349 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
349
1 hour, plus cooling and resting
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Brown Sugar Layer Cake With Cranberry Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1867 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,867
2 hours plus cooling
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
Nigella Lawson
11732 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
11,732
1 hour 15 minutes
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Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Nigella Lawson
1882 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,882
1 hour
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Rainbow Cake
Erin Jeanne McDowell
679 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
679
2 hours, plus 1½ hours’ chilling
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Raspberry-Mochi Butter Cake With Matcha Glaze
Alexa Weibel, Margarita Manzke, Betty Hallock
1033 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,033
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bolo de Cenoura (Carrot Cake)
Yewande Komolafe
1190 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,190
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling
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Tres Leches Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
2902 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,902
About 1 hour, plus chilling
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Melissa Clark, Mary Berry
1598 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,598
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake
Ali Slagle
1137 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,137
30 minutes, plus at least 2 hours’ freezing
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Strawberry Baby Cakes
Dorie Greenspan
1202 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,202
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Coconut Marzipan Cake
Nigella Lawson
428 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
428
About 1 hour
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German Chocolate Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
1240 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,240
1¼ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
316 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
316
1½ hours
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