Editors’ Collection

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

Texas Sheet Cake
Genevieve Ko
1300 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,300
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Pumpkin Layer Cake With Caramel Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1748 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,748
2 hours, plus cooling
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World’s Best Chocolate Cake
Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
7164 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
7,164
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Classic Coconut Cake
Alison Roman
1640 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,640
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Gingerbread Sheet Cake With Whipped Chocolate Ganache
Yossy Arefi
352 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
352
1 hour, plus cooling and resting
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Brown Sugar Layer Cake With Cranberry Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1976 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,976
2 hours plus cooling
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
Nigella Lawson
14391 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
14,391
1 hour 15 minutes
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Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Nigella Lawson
1951 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,951
1 hour
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Rainbow Cake
Erin Jeanne McDowell
683 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
683
2 hours, plus 1½ hours’ chilling
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Raspberry-Mochi Butter Cake With Matcha Glaze
Alexa Weibel, Margarita Manzke, Betty Hallock
1073 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,073
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bolo de Cenoura (Carrot Cake)
Yewande Komolafe
1238 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,238
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling
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Tres Leches Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
3080 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
3,080
About 1 hour, plus chilling
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Melissa Clark, Mary Berry
1638 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,638
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake
Ali Slagle
1167 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,167
30 minutes, plus at least 2 hours’ freezing
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Strawberry Baby Cakes
Dorie Greenspan
1219 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,219
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Coconut Marzipan Cake
Nigella Lawson
437 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
437
About 1 hour
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German Chocolate Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
1288 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,288
1¼ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
317 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
317
1½ hours
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