Gemma’s Best Birthday Cake Recipes

Cake & cupcake recipes. Chef tested & approved.

As a professional chef and baker, I’m sharing my master cake recipes and cupcake creations. You’ll find my Vanilla Birthday Cake recipe, Best-Ever Chocolate Cake, Carrot Cake recipe, even a 3 Layer Microwave Cake, and many more. Plus, get my Best-Ever Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, Homemade Fondant recipes, and even make your own ingredients like butter, cake flour, and brown sugar.

My Top Tips for your Cakes:

  • Mix Wet & Dry Ingredients Separately Usually, you’ll want to mix together your dry ingredients and your wet separately. Once that’s done, you can add your wet ingredients to your dry. This method will yield you the best results and a more even texture in your baking.
  • Don’t Over Mix Over mixing your batter will toughen and strengthen the gluten in the flour. Doing this to the gluten will yield you tougher baked goods, not a light and tender bake, like you want.
  • Can I use Egg Substitutes in Cake Recipes? YES! I have an egg substitute chart you can use for most of my recipes.


Vanilla Birthday Cake Recipe with Buttercream Frosting (Master Recipe): An incredible cake recipe that you will use for years to come.


Vanilla Birthday Cake


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3 Layer Neapolitan Cake


Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cake - Think you can’t recreate this cake? Think again! Click and see how….


Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cake


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Funfetti Birthday Cake


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Naked Cake


3 Layer Cake made in the Microwave!!! You won't believe how soft and moist this cake is that was made in a microwave


3 Layer Microwave Cake


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Lemon Meringue Cake


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Brownie Layer Cake


Best Ever Carrot Cake


Best Ever Carrot Cake


Cinnamon Roll Cake - Everything you love about cinnamon rolls but in a CAKE!


Cinnamon Roll Cake


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Best Ever Chocolate Cake


SmoresCake


S’mores Cake


BestEverCarrotCake


3 Layer Microwave Red Velvet Cake


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OREO Cake


Rainbow Cake, Gemma Stafford, Recipe


Double Rainbow Cake

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Cupcake Recipes


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Crazy Cupcakes: One Cupcake Recipe with Endless Variations


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Red Velvet Cupcakes (Small Batch)


Small Batch Carrot Cake, Baby Chick Vanilla, Flourless Chocolate Cupcakes and for Spring. This recipe makes just 4 cupcakes. Perfect for making in a small toaster oven.


Small Batch Cupcakes for Spring


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Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes with Sugar Free Frosting

Cake Ingredients


Learn how to make the ultimate buttercream frosting with my buttercream frosting recipe.


Crazy Frosting


Best-Ever Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting - No more buttercream mishaps, this recipe is fool proof!


Best Ever Swiss Meringue Buttercream

 


Dry Cake Mix


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Homemade Cake Flour


How to make Gluten Free Flour - See how easy it is to make 3 of the most commonly used gluten free flours.


Gluten Free Flour


Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe: Follow my chef-tested technique to making the best ever icing recipe!


Best Ever Buttercream Frosting


How to make Brown Sugar - For those times you need brown sugar but all you have is white! Now you can easily make your own with just 2 ingredients.


Brown Sugar


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Homemade Extracts


All Natural Homemade Food Coloring- want an All Natural solution to store bought food coloring? Simple make your own. The results are amazing!!


Homemade Food Coloring


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Marshmallow Fondant


Chocolate Fudge Frosting - You will never need another frosting recipe again!


Best Ever Fudge Frosting


How to Make Powdered Sugar - 2 ingredients and just 1 blender and you have instant Homemade Powdered Sugar


How to Make Powdered Sugar


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Buttermilk Substitute


How to make Rolled Fondant- The only fondant recipe you will ever need for fondant. It is easy to make, easy to work with and inexpensive.


Homemade Rolled Fondant


How to make Homemade Butter


Homemade Butter

Techniques


How to use Piping Nozzles - Easy cake decorating using the most common piping nozzles.


How to Use Piping Nozzles


Easy Ways to Decorate a cake using a hair dryer!!!!


Make Your Frosting Shiny


Celery Stamp Painted Cake- want to recreate this beautiful cake? All you need is a head of celery and food dye. It is so easy and will blow people away!


Celery-Stamp Rose Cake


Want easy ways to decorate a cake? check out this great trick!


Decorate With Lace

About Us

Meet Gemma

About Us

Meet Gemma

Hi Bold Bakers! I’m Gemma Stafford, a professional chef originally from Ireland, best-selling cookbook author, and the creator of Bigger Bolder Baking and the Bold Baking Network. I want to help you bake with confidence anytime, anywhere with my trusted and tested recipes and baking tips. You may have seen one of my 1000+ videos on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok or as a guest judge on Nailed It! on Netflix or the Best Baker in America on Food Network. No matter your skills, my Bold Baking Team & I want to be your #1 authority for everything baking.

 

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