Cake Recipes

Big birthday? From <a href="/recipes/simple-chocolate-birthday-cake">simple chocolate birthday cakes</a> to the <a href="/recipes/ultimate-birthday-cake">ultimate birthday cake</a>, we’ve got you covered. Baby shower or christening? Our beautiful celebration cakes will have guests cooing over the cake as much as the baby. 
 
Easter, Valentines, Weddings – whatever the occasion let there be cake. After all, a party without a cake is just a meeting.

Percy Pig Marble Cake decorated with pink buttercream and percy pig sweets, next to a bag of Silver Spoon caster sugar

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Celebration Cake Recipes | Birthday Cake Recipes

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Bread & Dough

Cookie, Oreo & Brownie Layered Cake with a slice cut out of it. 

Top view of Rainbow Meringues in a bowl, with Rainbow Meringues scattered around next to a bag of silver spoon caster sugar

Confectionery

Side on view of a stack of vegan and gluten free chocolate chip cookies

Cookies & Biscuits

Nutella Cupcakes with glass bottle of milk in the background

Cupcakes & Muffins

2 glass jars of eton mess, raspberries, edible flowers and vanilla extract

Desserts

Bowl of ice cream, apple and slices, brown sugar packet

Ice Cream & Lollies

Icing & Buttercream

Jams & Spreads

Stack of American pancakes drizzled with maple syrup and topped with fresh berries

Pancakes, Crepes & Waffles

Pastries, Pies & Tarts

scone with strawberries and cream on a plate 

Scone and Shortcake Recipes

Sweet Sauces

Salted Caramel Cookie Traybake pieces stacked on top of each other with a hand reaching for the top piece. A bottle of milk in the background and jar of caramel sauce in the foreground

Traybakes

Pop tarts decorated with biscoff, chocolate and pink icing with sprinkles. 

Air Fryer Pop Tarts

Individual Eton Mess

Mini chocolate cupcake with a bite taken out of it and the cupcake case peeled back

Tiramisu Mini Treats

Recipes

Tips & Tricks

Allinson's

A top down view of chocolate brownies next to a packet of Billington's Dark Muscovado Sugar

Billington’s

Nielsen Massey Vanilla Extract being added to Vanilla Extract Cupcakes mixture

Nielsen-Massey

Silver Spoon

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The simple, stripped-back naked vanilla celebration cake allows the taste to really do the talking and the velvety Nielsen-Massey vanilla buttercream says it all. Sleek and stylish. Sweet and moreish. This cake works on so many levels; ideal for bakers less confident in cake decorating or tasters who aren’t that fond of fondant.

Naked Vanilla Celebration Cake

There's cake then there is the Nielsen Massey&nbsp;Ultimate Vanilla Celebration&nbsp;Cake. A classic 4 layer Vanilla sponge cake, infused with a Vanilla syrup to make it extra moist, filled and covered with an indulgent Vanilla Bean buttercream. The pièce de résistance are the <a data-item-id="d4674f69-97e5-5a63-a5e9-ec22eae39bc0" href="">Rose Water Meringue Kisses</a> and <a data-item-id="2e8bf232-3c9a-5452-82aa-6ebf654124cc" href="">Macaron</a> decorations. Whilst this cake looks like a real showstopper it actually isn't as complicated as you would think (but your guests don't need to know that!)&nbsp;

Ultimate Vanilla Celebration Cake

What better way to celebrate a special birthday or anniversary with a number cake? You can tweak this simple vanilla cake recipe by adding different flavourings if you prefer. Decorate with a selection of your favourite sweets, biscuits or even flowers to add that personal touch.

Number Cake

Our friend Juliet Sear has developed this wonderfully tasty elderflower and lemon cake recipe for you.

Elderflower & Lemon Cake

Indulge in a truly-scrumptious fusion of fluffy sponge, creamy pink buttercream, and the vibrant sweetness of summer strawberries.
Our sweet strawberry cake is the perfect bake for friends and family during the warmer months - delicious soft sponge meets our rich strawberry buttercream for a summertime bake which your friends and family will love. Serve with a cup of tea - or even a glass of prosecco for an decadent teatime treat.

Strawberry Cake

This triple-layered drip cake is really something else. You are looking at 3 completely different layers: chocolate chip cookie, then a crushed oreo layer topped with a brownie layer. The top is drenched in a chocolate ganache with lots of biscuits and cookies on the top. 
 
Although it looks like a challenge, it's the same basic sponge mixture with different additions for each layer which makes it relatively simple to make. You're going to want to eat a big slice of this. Put your stretchy pants on.

Cookie, Oreo & Brownie Layered Drip Cake

Birthdays are such a special occasion that it is only right to celebrate with our Ultimate Birthday Drip Cake. With four decadent layers of fluffy vanilla sponge, decorated with smoothed vanilla buttercream, chocolate ganache drips, and mounds full of chocolate goodies, such as Bueno, Kit-Kats and Minstrels - chocolate lovers, meet your match.

Ultimate Birthday Drip Cake

Our good friend Juliet Sear has shared her unicorn cake recipe with us.&nbsp;
She used four layers of our Fluffy Vanilla Cake for this cake, making it nice and tall. She also coloured the layers, so there's lots of rainbow fun inside the cake, as well as on the outside. She finished off the unicorn showstopper with a rainbow mane.

Unicorn Cake

This Christening cake recipe will suit almost any occasion, simply change the names and colours to suit the recipient. Stick to just two or three colours to keep the style elegant.

Christening cake

Calling all rhubarb and custard fans, this is the recipe for you. Extracted from Cheeky Treats by Liam Charles, this rhubarb and custard cake is absolutely delicious.

Rhubarb & Custard Cake

The Little Book of Vegan has lovingly created a classic English Victoria sponge cake and given it a zesty twist, with fruity layers of lemon-flavoured sponge filled with strawberry jam and vanilla cream frosting, and topped with fresh strawberries and a dusting of Silver Spoon icing sugar.&nbsp;
This recipe is perfect vegan alternative cake for a tea party any time of the year.

Vegan Victoria Sponge Cake

This Kawaii celebration cake is delicious with a creamy coconut filling and the decoration&nbsp;will be sure to&nbsp;give any party a fiesta feel - for an adult version why not try soaking the sponge in white rum for a Pina Colada flavour.&nbsp;

Pineapple Fiesta Cake

This sponge cake is made with carrots and beetroot which adds a natural sweetness and moistness to the cake. Topped with a beetroot stained pink cream-cheese frosting, and decorated with edible flowers, a caterpillar made with green grapes and other tasty treats. Thank you to Holly Willoughby for the recipe, it's a great one to bake for a kids party because of the hidden vegetables. Ssssssh! We won't tell them.

Garden Birthday Cake

Move over Colin the Caterpillar - our Percy Pig marble cake is tough competition. From it's pink ombré layers, sweet strawberry flavouring and of course generous handfuls of Percy Pigs, this cake is well worth your time and effort.&nbsp;
If the pink buttercream swirls and pig sweeties aren't exciting enough, cutting into this cake will be sure to bring squeals of surprise to your kitchen with sweet sticky jam sandwiched between three pink marble cake layers. Yum!

Percy Pig Marble Cake

If you're looking for a really fun summer-themed cake to bake, this could be for you. This quirky sandcastle cake is really fun to bake and decorate with kids and is a great summery addition to garden parties or BBQ.

Sandcastle Cake

Looking for a simple chocolate cake recipe that's fit for any celebration but super easy to whip up? Look no further. This scrummy simple chocolate cake recipe will be your go-to party ready recipe time and time again.&nbsp;

Simple Chocolate Birthday Cake

Our friend Juliet Sear has developed a really lovely gluten free version of the Royal Wedding elderflower and lemon cake that Prince Harry and Meghan had on their big day.
The cake can be made in less than an hour and will serve up to 16 people, perfect for a Jubilee street party celebration.

Gluten Free Elderflower & Lemon Cake

Spiders and spider webs are necessary for a spooky Halloween party. Impress your guests with a spooky dessert choice, our spider web cake!

Halloween Spider Web Cake

Rich with warm flavours of ginger and orange, we've used Billington's molasses sugar to really add a depth of flavour to this moist gingerbread cake, fit for any celebration. We've used wholemeal flour in the sponge to compliment the flavours, and give a firmer, but fuller texture to the cake.
&nbsp;To frost, we've topped ours with a soft cream cheese buttercream and used lashings of salted caramel sauce for a drip cake effect which is super easy but so effective for the wow-factor you're looking for. For a finishing touch break up the crumbs from the gingerbread cut offs and crumble on top or bake up some gingerbread figures for cake toppers like the tree's we tried above!

Gingerbread Birthday Cake

We're feeling all retro with this showstopping blast from the past Rubix Cube cake. It's really not as puzzling as you would think to make and consists of a classic Madeira sponge with jam and buttercream filling, covered it fun and colourful squares.

Celebration Cakes

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