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
1302 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,302
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
7170 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
7,170
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Classic Coconut Cake
Alison Roman
1642 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,642
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
1978 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,978
2 hours plus cooling
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
Nigella Lawson
14452 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
14,452
1 hour 15 minutes
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Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Nigella Lawson
1960 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,960
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
1077 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,077
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bolo de Cenoura (Carrot Cake)
Yewande Komolafe
1240 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,240
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling
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Tres Leches Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
3105 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
3,105
About 1 hour, plus chilling
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Melissa Clark, Mary Berry
1642 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,642
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake
Ali Slagle
1174 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,174
30 minutes, plus at least 2 hours’ freezing
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Strawberry Baby Cakes
Dorie Greenspan
1220 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,220
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
1293 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,293
1¼ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
318 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
318
1½ hours
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