The 45 Best Mother's Day Cake Ideas
Impressive Mother's Day cakes
So you've planned a delicious Mother's Day lunch or dinner to celebrate the moms in your life and all that's left to tackle is dessert. These 45 best Mother's Day cake ideas are just the thing to top off your gathering—the icing on the cake, as they say.
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The Best Mother's Day Cake Ideas
The perfect cake for Mother's Day can be many things: it can have lots of fresh springtime berries, or it could be decadent and chocolatey. It could be a layer cake, a bundt cake, a sheet cake or even a dump cake! But most importantly, the best cake for Mother's Day is the one she'll love the most. And this list is perfect because it has so many different types of cakes, perfect for any and all tastes.
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Easy and Elegant Mother's Day Cake Recipes
Best of all, so many of these Mother's Day cake recipes are easy and simple to make, even for beginner bakers. So even if you're not an expert, you can still make an expert-level cake with these fantastic recipes! Give them a try and I hope that you and all the mothers in your life have a lovely Mother's Day on May 12, 2024.
Ali Allen
This naturally-sweetened cake combines berries, nuts and a fluffy honey-blueberry whipped cream. Perfect for your celebration!
Get the recipe: Lemony Hazelnut & Blueberry Cake
Jennifer Blume
Add some razzle-dazzle to a white cake mix for a tasty treat that’s special enough for Mother’s Day and all your summer celebrations.
Get the recipe: Raspberry Zinger Poke Cake
Our Table for Seven
Sometimes the simplest desserts are the best. For example, a huge chocolate cake with a super fudgy frosting poured on top!
Get the recipe: Classic Texas Sheet Cake
Theresa Greco
This cake's crumb is light and airy and the hints of lemon are refreshing. But most of all, this cake is easy to make and proves you don’t have to spend a lot of time in the kitchen to produce something decadent.
Get the recipe: Easy Lemon Cream Cake
Mark Lund for Parade
This decadent flourless cake is perfect if Mom is a major chocoholic!
Get the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Cake
Photo by: Teri Lyn Fisher
If Mom loves simple old-fashioned, bakery-style cakes, she will swoon for this fluffy and moist classic coconut layer cake!
Get the recipe: Classic Vegan Coconut Layer Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
This perfectly moist, tender and soft lemon layer cake is iced in a wonderful lemon cream cheese frosting and bursting with irresistibly zingy and tangy lemon flavor!
Get the recipe: Lemon Layer Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
This delicious Honey Bun Cake is a simple, light, and buttery cake features a cinnamon spiced swirl and a sticky sweet glaze! Just like a honeybun!
Get the recipe: Honey Bun Cake
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Grandbaby Cakes
This Strawberry Shortcake Cake fills fluffy and moist vanilla cake with sweet, aromatic macerated strawberries and berry hinted Swiss meringue buttercream. Each bite is fruity, tender and melts in your mouth.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Shortcake Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
This is the Best Pineapple Upside Down Cake recipe ever! It’s a moist sponge cake caramelized to perfection with brown sugar pineapple rings and cherries.
Get the recipe: Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
This Southern Hummingbird Cake recipe is a deliciously moist cake filled with ripe banana, perfectly sweet pineapple and chopped pecans that’s topped with an irresistibly rich cream cheese frosting! It tastes almost tropical!
Get the recipe: Hummingbird Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
Strawberry Punch Bowl Cake Recipe has perfect layers of moist pound cake, decadent strawberry hinted cream cheese filling, fresh whipped cream and perfectly in season fresh strawberries create the perfect spring dessert!
Get the recipe: Strawberry Punch Bowl Cake
Grandbaby Cakes
The best real Southern caramel cake on the web! If Mom wants authentic Southern Caramel Cake, you must make this recipe.
Get the recipe: Real Deal Southern Caramel Cake
Britney Breaks Bread
Strawberries and Cream Chocolate Cake is your new favorite chocolate cake recipe. A single layer moist chocolate cake with a hint of espresso, topped with whipped cream and macerated strawberries. This chocolate cake recipe is sure to be your new favorite dessert!
Get the recipe: Strawberries and Cream Chocolate Cake
Sense and Edibility
Make a Mother’s Day dessert that’s as unique as she is. This Chocolate Tres Leches Cake is a spin on the classic Latin American dessert. A fluffy sponge cake gets soaked in a malted chocolate milk bath and topped with a chocolate whipped cream.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Tres Leches Cake
Sims Home Kitchen
This classic Easy Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe is the perfect dessert or tea-time snack! It is so easy to make and can be prepared in just 15 minutes. Top this delicious cake with fresh berries, buttercream and enjoy!
Get the recipe: Easy Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe
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We Eat At Last
This moist and delicious gluten-free carrot cake is perfect to serve on special occasions such as birthdays or Mother's Day. It is also wheat-free, dairy-free and paleo-friendly.
Get the recipe: Paleo Carrot Cake with Almond Flour
Sweet Tea and Thyme
This sunny Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake recipe is a fantastic way to to bring the warm weather into the kitchen. It's full of sweet juicy blueberries, has a tender crumb and a heavenly glaze made with fresh lemon juice.
Get the recipe: Lemon Blueberry Sour Cream Pound Cake
Chenée Today
A delicious white chocolate variation on Black Forest Cake, this 6-inch White Forest Cake is perfect for your smaller Mother's Day gathering!
Get the recipe: White Forest Cake
Upstate Ramblings
Make these cute mini lemon bundt cakes for Mom! Top them off with glaze and fresh fruit for a delicious bite sized dessert.
Get the recipe: Mini Lemon Bundt Cakes
Mommy Evolution
Folks will be left talking about this amazing berries and cream vanilla pound cake that looks as impressive as it tastes!
Get the recipe: Berries and Cream Vanilla Pound Cake
Chef Elizabeth Reese
This incredibly dense Lemon Pound Cake with Coconut Icing is so moist and delicious. It’s a great weekend baking recipe perfect for spring!
Get the recipe: Lemon Pound Cake with Coconut Icing
My Organized Chaos
This Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Cake has layers of strawberry ice cream, whipped topping and a cookie crumble. Easy to make and completely delicious!
Get the recipe: Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Cake
Global Kitchen Travels
What's a Mother's Day brunch without an awesome tea cake? Transport Mom to the Caribbean with the tropical flavors of passionfruit and coconut. This soft and moist tea cake is quick, easy and delicious!
Get the recipe: Passionfruit Coconut Tea Cake
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My Baking Addiction
The Best Chocolate Cake recipe combines cocoa and coffee to create a chocolate lover’s dream. Add your favorite buttercream frosting to make it perfect!
Get the recipe: The Best Chocolate Cake
I Can You Can Vegan
This Easy Vegan Blueberry Lemon Cake is pure PERFECTION! Filled with fresh blueberries and lemon in every bite, you'll find it hard to resist this 10 ingredient recipe!
Get the recipe: Easy Vegan Blueberry Lemon Cake
Flawless Food
A simple old fashioned British farmhouse cake recipe that every mother loves! Vanilla sponge with a scattering of sultanas.
Get the recipe: Manor House Sultana Cake
Razzle Dazzle Life
This Cookies and Cream Chocolate Poke Cake is the perfect dessert for any occasion. It is so easy to make, and will be devoured in a moment of minutes. It is that good!
Get the recipe: Cookies and Cream Chocolate Poke Cake
Gimme That Flavor
Light, fluffy and deliciously moist Biscoff cake, loaded with Biscoff flavor and topped with Biscoff buttercream frosting.
Get the recipe: Biscoff Cake
Big Delicious Life
This is a carrot cake lover's dream. This sheet cake recipe is easy to assemble and transport and sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Get the recipe: Cardamom Spiced Carrot Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Pie Lady Bakes
If you are looking for a simple dessert that’s easy to bake and delicious, this French Apple Cake is the perfect recipe for you. It looks and tastes just like the classic French apple cake, but this version uses a French vanilla cake mix.
Get the recipe: French Apple Cake
Bakes by Brown Sugar
This beautiful Red Velvet Cake is a moist and fluffy chocolate cake with a hint of vanilla. The Mascarpone Buttercream is so rich and creamy that you may be tempted to eat it all by itself. It's the perfect treat for a celebration.
Get the recipe: Red Velvet Cake with Mascarpone Buttercream
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Beyond the Chicken Coop
Impress your family with this delicious strawberry roll cake. Filled with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Roll Cake
Dizzy, Busy & Hungry
Want a twist on chocolate cake? Add stout beer and bake a very moist, spongy cake for Mom. She's sure to love it!
Get the recipe: Malted Chocolate Stout Cake
BellyFull
This Shirley Temple Cake is a super easy dessert that’s moist, tender and fun to serve. Made with instant pudding, grenadine, lemon-lime soda and maraschino cherries, it’s reminiscent of a classic Shirley Temple drink! Wonderful for a family brunch!
Get the recipe: Shirley Temple Cake
Finding Zest
This cinnamon roll coffee cake works great for a Mother's Day brunch or dessert option. What mom can resist?
Get the recipe: Cinnamon Roll Coffee Cake
Eating Gluten & Dairy Free
Adding crushed pineapple transforms this cake into a delicious tropical treat with a rich, vanilla buttercream frosting decorated with pineapple slices.
Get the recipe: Pineapple Cake
Dani's Cookings
This Easy Strawberry Cake is one of the most elegant and tasty cakes you can prepare for Mother's Day!
Get the recipe: Easy Strawberry Cake
This Banana Pudding Cake Recipe pairs layers of banana cake with a creamy pudding that is all topped off with a fluffy whipped frosting, perfect for Mother's Day.
Get the recipe: Banana Pudding Cake
Homemade in the Kitchen
Brighten up Mother's Day with this Lemon Raspberry Cake! It’s a 6-inch lemon cake with a raspberry filling and raspberry frosting, guaranteed to make Mom smile.
Get the recipe: Lemon Raspberry Cake
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Pizzazzerie
This delicious stacked shortcake is the perfect twist on a classic Mother's Day dessert! Tender shortcake cookies topped with whipped topping and strawberries.
Get the recipe: Easy Strawberry Shortcake Stacks
Gift of Hospitality
If mom loves chocolate, you have to make her this cake! Turtle Cake starts with a boxed cake mix, and it’s packed with pecans, chocolate chips and caramel.
Get the recipe: Turtle Cake
My Kitchen Serenity
This Apricot Nectar Cake is light, fluffy and easy to make thanks to starting with boxed cake mix. Tossing in a few extra ingredients adds flavor, moisture and a hint of citrus flavor making it a great spring cake for any occasion.
Get the recipe: Apricot Nectar Cake
The Quick Journey
This is the best old fashioned pound cake that yields a delicious, buttery, dense pound cake perfect for fruit or whipped cream!
Get the recipe: Old-Fashioned Pound Cake
Kelly Neil
Earl Grey yogurt cake is a simple, single-layer, any-occasion cake. Once cooled, the cake is finished with a pinkish-purple blackberry glaze.
Get the recipe: Earl Grey Yogurt Cake
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