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Easy Cakes and Cupcake Recipes

With so many delicious and easy cake and cupcake recipes, there’s going to be something for everyone! There’s a wide variety of delicious cake recipes ranging from simple recipes like doctored chocolate cake mix to more complex ones like my carrot cake with caramel frosting. You’ll even find fun cake recipes like my pumpkin earthquake cake and chocolate peanut butter earthquake cake. Let’s not forget about those cupcakes that everyone loves! You’ll find unique cupcake recipes like my Beach Cupcakes and lime slime cupcakes as well as the best cupcake recipes such as these chocolate cupcakes.

All of the strawberry shortcake cake in the photo included white ruffled cake plate.

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Three carrot patch cupcakes sitting on individual cupcake stands with carrot patch cupcakes on a ruffled white cake stand in the background

Carrot Patch Cupcakes

Carrot cake with caramel buttercream on a white ruffled cake plate.

Carrot Cake with Caramel Frosting

A shot at eye level of mocha layer cake

Mocha Layer Cake with Coffee Frosting

slice of chocolate bundt cake on plate

Chocolate Mayonnaise Bundt Cake

cake on white cake plate with yellow drizzle

Lemon Olive Oil Cake

JELL-O Mirror Glaze Cake

Jell-O Mirror Glaze Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake - quick and easy chocolate peanut butter cake made in a mug and microwaved! It's the perfect little treat to satisfy any sweet tooth.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Mug Cake

Yellow Cupcakes with Peach Cream Cheese Frosting - Light and fluffy homemade yellow cupcakes topped with a peach flavored cream cheese frosting! Perfect for all occasions!

Yellow Cupcakes with Peach Cream Cheese Frosting

Mini Coffee and Cream Cakes - Moist little coffee flavored cakes with a vanilla butter glaze poured over top.

Mini Coffee and Cream Cakes

Carrot Cake with Pineapple and Cream Cheese Frosting, garnished with toasted pecans

Pineapple Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting - peanut butter cake filled with chocolate frosting and chopped peanut butter cups. Top this cake with a chocolate peanut butter ganache and cute peanut butter filled chocolate eggs for EASTER!

Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Tangy Lemon Lime Cake with Lemon Lime Glaze - It's a dense made from scratch pound cake with a box of lemon pudding and lime juice added in. The vibrant green and yellow stripes pop every bit as much as the flavor!

Lemon Lime Cake

slice of homemade chocolate whiskey cake with whiskey-infused chocolate frosting

Chocolate Whiskey Cake

Coconut Cupcakes - coconut cupcakes stuffed with a homemade raspberry filling and topped with a high coconut frosting swirl

Coconut Cupcakes with Raspberry Filling

Ginger Pear Cake - dense cake filled with chunks of pear, topped with ginger simple syrup and slathered with ginger frosting.

Ginger Pear Cake

Gingerbread Bundt Cakes - the perfect little cakes for Christmas, They're full of molasses , spices, and the perfect gingerbread flavor! Top the little cakes with a white chocolate ganache and sprinkles for the finishing touch.

Gingerbread Bundt Cakes

Christmas Tree Cake - Fun and festive green ombre cakes with red and white frosting piped in pretty shells.

Christmas Tree Cakes

Butterbeer Cupcake on a white background

Harry Potter’s Butterbeer Cupcakes

Halloween Cake covered in black cream cheese frosting

Halloween Cake with 4 Layers

Strawberry Cupcakes - Vanilla cupcakes with finely diced strawberries mixed into the batter. The cupcakes are topped with pinks in honor of breast cancer awareness!

Strawberry Cupcakes

Spider Egg Brownie Cake - three layers of brownie stuffed with cadbury screme eggs (spider eggs). It's then filled with a mixture of chocolate and vanilla frosting!

Spider Egg Brownie Cake

Fresh Peach Pound Cake with a Brown Sugar Bourbon Glaze

Fresh Peach Pound Cake

Toasted Marshmallow Peanut Butter Molten Lava Cakes

Peanut Butter Molten Lava Cakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake - gluten-free chocolate peanut butter cake with a tasty chocolate peanut butter ganache

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes with a chocolate frosting and topped with a fresh banana slice!

Chocolate Banana Cupcakes

Chocolate Poke Cake drizzled with chocolate syrup

Easy Chocolate Poke Cake Recipe

Boozy Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes - homemade blueberry filling, lemon cupcakes with a punch of limoncello, and limoncello frosting all in the perfect little package.

Boozy Blueberry Lemon Cupcakes

Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting topped with green sprinkles

Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes

Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes

Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes - Kick off the new year with champagne cupcakes filled with a raspberry champagne filling and topped with a champagne frosting.

Raspberry Champagne Cupcakes

Image taken from the front of coffee cupcakes

Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee Buttercream

Showing whole peppermint oreo crunch cake on white cake plate with text on photo

Peppermint Oreo Crunch Cake

"Nightlock" Berry Cupcakes with Berry Frosting - delicious tangy raspberry and blackberry filled cupcakes with a zesty mixed berry frosting. Black candy melt mockingjay decoration is topping the cupcakes in honor of the final Hunger Games movie.

Berry Cupcakes with Berry Frosting

OREO Crusted Orange Fanta Cupcakes - Adorable bat topped orange flavored cupcakes with a cute swirl of Halloween colored frosting! The cupcakes are also dipped in a orange Fanta glaze and crusted with OREO cookies for an extra touch.

OREO Crusted Orange Fanta Cupcakes

Halloween Swirled Cupcakes - Easy and adorable multicolored cupcakes and frosting. The kids will love 'em

Halloween Swirled Cupcakes

Apple Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting decorated with chocolate jimmies and fresh apple slices

Apple Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Easy Halloween Push Pops - Fun and colorful halloween colored push pops filled with vanilla frosting and vanilla cake colored black.

Easy Halloween Push Pops

Raspberry Vanilla Pink Ombre Bundt Cake - Dense vanilla cake with a hint of raspberry flavoring and a beautiful pink ombre effect. Breast Cancer Awareness sprinkles are a necessity!

Raspberry Vanilla Pink Ombre Bundt Cake

Goosebumps White Vampire Bite Cake - homemade white cake with a vanilla frosting and a blood red white chocolate ganache. Sugar Cookie in cake form? Yes, please.

Goosebumps White Vampire Bite Cake

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