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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
1745 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,745
2 hours, plus cooling
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World’s Best Chocolate Cake
Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
7149 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
7,149
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Classic Coconut Cake
Alison Roman
1633 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,633
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Gingerbread Sheet Cake With Whipped Chocolate Ganache
Yossy Arefi
351 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
351
1 hour, plus cooling and resting
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Brown Sugar Layer Cake With Cranberry Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1971 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,971
2 hours plus cooling
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
Nigella Lawson
14148 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
14,148
1 hour 15 minutes
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Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Nigella Lawson
1939 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,939
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
1065 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,065
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bolo de Cenoura (Carrot Cake)
Yewande Komolafe
1233 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,233
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling
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Tres Leches Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
3040 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
3,040
About 1 hour, plus chilling
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Melissa Clark, Mary Berry
1632 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,632
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake
Ali Slagle
1153 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,153
30 minutes, plus at least 2 hours’ freezing
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Strawberry Baby Cakes
Dorie Greenspan
1213 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,213
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Coconut Marzipan Cake
Nigella Lawson
432 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
432
About 1 hour
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German Chocolate Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
1277 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,277
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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