Recipe Roundup
49 Best Layer Cake Recipes for Every Celebration
Let these impressive, delicious, cakes take you higher…and higher…
We love a simple snacking cake, but when you’re baking for a special occasion, you need a layer cake recipe. You need mile-high carrot cake, cloaked in tangy cream cheese frosting. You need chocolate cake, shiny with ganache. Red velvet? Yup. And coconut cake, strawberry cake, spice cake, and delicate layers of stack cakes glazed with apple cider and molasses. Below, you’ll find our favorite fancy layer cakes for birthdays, holidays, celebrations—or any day when you just need a lift.