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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
1639 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,639
2 hours, plus cooling
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World’s Best Chocolate Cake
Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh
6978 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
6,978
1½ hours, plus cooling
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Classic Coconut Cake
Alison Roman
1597 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,597
1¼ hours, plus chilling
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Gingerbread Sheet Cake With Whipped Chocolate Ganache
Yossy Arefi
346 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
346
1 hour, plus cooling and resting
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Brown Sugar Layer Cake With Cranberry Buttercream
Yossy Arefi
1789 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,789
2 hours plus cooling
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Chocolate Guinness Cake
Nigella Lawson
11269 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
11,269
1 hour 15 minutes
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Coffee Walnut Layer Cake
Nigella Lawson
1852 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,852
1 hour
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Rainbow Cake
Erin Jeanne McDowell
678 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
678
2 hours, plus 1½ hours’ chilling
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Raspberry-Mochi Butter Cake With Matcha Glaze
Alexa Weibel, Margarita Manzke, Betty Hallock
1025 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,025
1¼ hours, plus cooling
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Bolo de Cenoura (Carrot Cake)
Yewande Komolafe
1130 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,130
1 hour 30 minutes, plus cooling
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Tres Leches Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
2855 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,855
About 1 hour, plus chilling
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Melissa Clark, Mary Berry
1589 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,589
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake
Ali Slagle
1123 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,123
30 minutes, plus at least 2 hours’ freezing
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Strawberry Baby Cakes
Dorie Greenspan
1198 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,198
45 minutes, plus cooling
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Coconut Marzipan Cake
Nigella Lawson
428 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
428
About 1 hour
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German Chocolate Cake
Samantha Seneviratne
1220 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,220
1¼ hours
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Strawberry Jelly Cake
Vallery Lomas
315 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
315
1½ hours
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