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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Easy butterfly cakes

Easy cakes

Easy butterfly cakes

Light-as-air sponge is topped with vanilla buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat butterfly cakes. They're great to make with kids.

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Toffee popcorn fudge cake

Celebration cakes

Toffee popcorn fudge cake

Celebrating the flavours of toffee popcorn, this showstopper cake has a white chocolate and popcorn ganache and sticky toffee sauce.

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Baklava dome cake

Best Easter cakes

Baklava dome cake

This baklava-inspired dome cake is covered in pistachio icing, concealing walnut sponges sandwiched with pistachio paste and raspberry cream.

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Hummingbird cake

Celebration cakes

Hummingbird cake

Hummingbird cake originates from Jamaica, where pineapple and banana are in abundance. Sharp cream cheese icing balances the sweetness.

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‘Fish’ cake

Birthday cakes

‘Fish’ cake

Take your next birthday party under the sea with this fabulously fishy cake! The buttercream colouring can be tailored to your theme.

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Panda cake

Birthday cakes

Panda cake

This happy little panda is, to everyone’s delight, completely edible. Our panda cake is perfect for birthday parties and special celebrations.

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Rat cake

Birthday cakes

Rat cake

Who could have predicted that creating a cake in the shape of a rat would become a social media trend? Here's how to make the illusion cake.

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Beehive cake

Afternoon tea

Beehive cake

Buzz buzz! The friendly little bees on this illusion cake are very busy indeed, creating a wonderful beehive for your gastronomic pleasure.

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Kim-Joy’s super easy chocolate cake (with marshmallow pigs)

Chocolate cakes

Kim-Joy’s super easy chocolate cake (with marshmallow pigs)

Kim-Joys easy chocolate cake is moist with a soft, tender crumb. Top with rich, shiny chocolate gananche and cute marshmallow pigs.

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Kim-Joy’s stem ginger and salted-caramel meringue creature cake

Meringue

Kim-Joy’s stem ginger and salted-caramel meringue creature cake

Kim-Joy's stem ginger cake is packed full of ginger flavour, plus thick layers of cream cheese frosting and thick salted caramel. What a joy!

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Tamarind toffee apple cake

Apples

Tamarind toffee apple cake

This showstopping toffee apple cake will impress your friends at Halloween or Bonfire Night. The tamarind caramel adds a fruity tang.

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Banana, maple and pecan cake

Baking recipes

Banana, maple and pecan cake

Bake Off's Kevin Flynn transforms banana cake into something special. Sandwich the layers with maple buttercream and top with candied pecans.

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Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake

Cakes

Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake

A fraisier cake was among my earliest endeavours at culinary school. The simplicity and elegance of this cake are truly unmatched.

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Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake

Carrot cakes

Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake

Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this spiced carrot cake recipe from the Bake Off alumni.

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Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake

Cakes

Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake

Say goodbye to that old Victoria sandwich, this peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake from Tarunima Sinha will NOT disappoint.

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Chocolate angel cake

Cakes

Chocolate angel cake

Treat yourself to a slice of sweetness with this classic chocolate angel cake which boasts a triple-threat of white, milk and dark chocolate.

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