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Are you looking for the perfect birthday cake recipe to celebrate that special someone? Good news. Here you will find a variety of options, ranging from this go-to, one-bowl buttermilk birthday cake recipe to this best-ever, rich chocolate cake recipe.

A tray of cupcakes decorated as owls.

One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

October 29, 2019

One-Bowl Buttermilk Birthday Cake

February 6, 2019

just-baked orange-ricotta pound cake — this is a one-bowl cake, flavored with orange zest and orange liqueur, made with butter (as opposed to oil). It stays moist for days and makes a wonderful gift.

One-Bowl, Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake

December 19, 2018

A box of sugar-crusted vanilla bean sables.

Dorie Greenspan’s Vanilla Bean Sablés

October 26, 2016

A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

September 23, 2016

This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

September 4, 2016

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake

May 20, 2016

TKO Ice Cream Sandwiches

August 7, 2015

A sheet pan filled with chocolate-coconut cookies.

Dark Chocolate, Coconut, Oatmeal Cookies

November 14, 2014

Dense chocolate loaf cake.

Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

October 10, 2014

This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively cocoa — no melted chocolate — is incredibly light and moist and stays this way — tasting freshly baked — for days. It's another Ina Garten recipe, one she begged for from a friend, the grandson of Beatty, after taking one bite. // alexandracooks.com

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

October 29, 2013

A slice of double chocolate cake with black velvet icing.

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing

October 30, 2012

Homemade Angel Food Cake

October 10, 2012

A frosted carrot cake.

Ultimate Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

July 9, 2009

Lemon-Buttermilk Cake

August 12, 2008

Red Velvet Cupcakes

February 8, 2007

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