Celebration cake recipes

Celebrating a birthday party or wedding? Wow your guests, or surprise a friend, with one of these impressive celebration cake recipes.

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Spiced plum cake with swiss meringue frosting

Spiced plum cake with swiss meringue frosting

Usher in autumn with our spiced plum cake. A golden sponge studded with juicy red...

Vegetarian
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Lemon and courgette cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting

Lemon and courgette cake with white chocolate cream...

This gorgeous lemon and courgette cake features layers of zesty sponge layered with homemade lemon...

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Chocolate cake with caramel poached pears and chocolate buttercream

Chocolate cake with caramel poached pears and chocolate...

Give chocolate cake an autumnal twist. Fill this rich chocolate sponge with silky swiss meringue...

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Rhubarb and custard layer cake

Rhubarb and custard layer cake

This glorious rhubarb and custard layer cake is so pretty: its jaw-dropping decoration makes it...

Vegetarian
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Peanut butter drip cake

Peanut butter drip cake

A dark chocolate sponge is sandwiched and covered with peanut buttercream, drizzled with a rich...

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Lemon, blueberry and coconut cake

Lemon, blueberry and coconut cake

This stunning layer cake by Bake Off finalist Alice Fevronia is a project for a...

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Carrot and cheesecake layer cake

Carrot and cheesecake layer cake

Four layers of carrot cake sponge are sandwiched between a chocolate and vanilla marbled cheesecake...

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Russian honey biscuit cake

Russian honey biscuit cake

This Russian honey biscuit cake needs to be assembled at least 6 hours ahead of...

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Halloween celebration cake

Halloween celebration cake

A dark chocolate sponge is sandwiched and covered with peanut buttercream, drizzled with a rich...

Freezable
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Mango, cardamom and coconut cake

Mango, cardamom and coconut cake

In this mango cake recipe, Chetna Makan has brought together three of her favourite ingredients...

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Sugarplum fairy cakes

Sugarplum fairy cakes

Soft and fluffy fairy cakes are dotted with little nuggets of marzipan and come topped...

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Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake

Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake

Celebrate summer in style with Felicity Cloake‘s boozy bundt drizzle cake. She says: ”No birthday...

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Thousand-layer cake (lapis legit)

Thousand-layer cake (lapis legit)

This Indonesian thousand-layer cake, also known as lapis legit, is fittingly named for its many...

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Apple and cinnamon crumble cake

Apple and cinnamon crumble cake

This rich, buttery apple cake has slices of apple baked into the sponge, and a...

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Caramelised white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini cake

Caramelised white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini cake

Bake John Whaite’s epic white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini celebration cake to really impress...

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Eric Lanlard’s carrot and pumpkin celebration cake

Eric Lanlard’s carrot and pumpkin celebration cake

Master pâtissier Eric Lanlard created this showstopping carrot cake for delicious. magazine’s 15th birthday. We...

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