Spring Celebration Cakes

A good coconut cake recipe is something to hold close, to pass down, to guard and share and praise. With its super fluffy coconut frosting and moist cake, this recipe fits the bill. Buttermilk and coconut milk add an especially fragrant bite.

To make: Willow Bird Baking

What's not to like about six layers of decadent red velvet cake filled with whipped vanilla cream, fresh raspberry filling and marshmallow cream cheese? We can't think of much that tops it.

To make: Sweetapolita

Meyer lemons are the sweet darlings of the lemon world, and this cake takes advantage of their super fragrant flavor by combining them with chocolate for one moist, deluxe lemon cake topped with fudgy buttercream.

To make: Love & Olive Oil

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It's hard to find a strawberry cake mix that even remotely tastes like real fruit, so if you want to serve a delicious strawberry cake, fresh and homemade is the only way to go. For this cake, use the freshest berries you can find—the cake gets its color from the berries themselves. And feel free to make cupcakes instead of cake if you prefer.

To make: Confessions of a Foodie Bride

This beautiful celebration cheesecake is simpler than it looks: Homemade lemon curd is swirled directly into the rich cheesecake batter for a gorgeous marbled look that's likely to take center stage at any party.

To make: Foodess

Vanilla and strawberry are two flavors that virtually always complement one another. This is no exception. These cupcakes are made with both vanilla extract and vanilla bean for a super, special vanilla flavor.

To make: Sophistimom

These bars rely on boxed cake mix, so they're a quick dessert for when you're in a bind. We love them because they're like nothing else. A chocolate cake base is covered with white and dark chocolate chips and then a mixture of sweetened condensed milk and cream cheese is poured over the top, eventually rising to the top when baked to create a hot, chewy bar that just begs for a glass of milk.

To make: Averie Cooks

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A traditional coconut cake recipe is a fine thing to have, and a simple raspberry filling always pairs beautifully with coconut cream cheese frosting. It adds a bit of tartness to the otherwise sweet, fluffy affair—creating the perfect balance and the urge to take just one more bite.

To make: Culinary Cory

Imagine a decadent, dense chocolate cake with just three ingredients: butter, chocolate and eggs. No, wait. Make that butter, one pound of chocolate, and eggs! This is bound to be your new favorite cake recipe, especially if you even remotely like chocolate (which we do).

To make: Gimme Some Oven

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This is, plain and simple, a deliciously classic carrot cake recipe. No bells and whistles. No gimmicks or tricks. Silky cream cheese frosting is slathered between the layers, and walnuts and golden raisins are the stars—as they should be.

To make: Blue Eyed Bakers