Spring is in the air and it’s time for a delicious roundup of the BEST cake recipes for spring & summer!
A great slice of cake is going to be delicious no matter what the season, but in warm spring and summer months, I especially crave cakes with refreshing fruit flavors or an extra pop of color!
You may have seen our roundup of our favorite Summer Cake Designs, Tutorials, and Inspiration, but today, we’re all about the RECIPES! We have SO many favorite recipes for spring and summer that it would be impossible to pick just one.
Whether you’re looking for citrus cakes, cocktail inspired cakes, or fruit flavors that pair wonderfully with chocolate (hello raspberry, strawberry, and coconut), we have something for you!
Save this roundup for the next time you’re planning a birthday party, neighborhood gathering, or just a fun night with the family. We hope that you find something that you can’t wait to try! Enjoy!
The Best Cake Recipes for Spring and Summer
We love these light and fruity cake recipes for spring and summer gatherings! Whether you're looking for strawberry cakes, citrus cakes, cocktail inspired cakes, and more- you are certain to find something on this list!
Lemon Orange Pound Cake
Moist, flavorful Lemon Orange Pound Cake! This buttery, tender pound cake has wonderful citrus flavor. This easy pound cake recipe is sure to become a favorite!
Raspberry Layer Cake
This moist Raspberry Layer Cake from scratch is so delicious flavorful! We use frozen raspberries for this recipe, making it a .year-round favorite!
Lemon Cheesecake Cake
This Lemon Cheesecake Cake is heavenly! A lemon cheesecake layer is sandwiched between two moist lemon buttermilk cake layers and frosted in lemon cream cheese frosting.
Blueberry Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist homemade blueberry layer cake has amazing flavor- perfect no matter what time of year but we especially love it's refreshing flavor in the spring and summer months!
Key Lime Cake (A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe)
We love this moist, refreshing Key Lime Layer Cake and it is so easy to make using a cake mix!
Strawberry Pound Cake
This moist Strawberry Pound Cake is heavenly! We love the strawberry flavor- it's the perfect cake recipe for spring and summer, or for the strawberry lovers in your life!
Orange Dreamsicle Cake- Delicious Homemade Recipe
This cake tastes EXACTLY like an orange dreamsicle! Such wonderful flavor- moist orange cake layers, orange cream filling, and orange cream cheese frosting! Heavenly!
Cherry Layer Cake (A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe)
This moist and delicious Cherry Layer Cake is so simple and delicious! We love it with our cherry cream cheese frosting.
Orange Pineapple Cake
This fruity, flavorful Orange Pineapple Cake is super moist and perfect for spring and summer gatherings! Orange cake layers are filled with pineapple and cream filling and frosted in whipped orange mascarpone frosting- so light and delicious!
Lemon Buttermilk Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This moist and delicious Lemon Buttermilk Cake with Whipped Lemon Mascarpone frosting is so light, tender, and flavorful!
White Chocolate Coconut Cake
This delicious homemade White Chocolate Coconut Cake is SO moist and flavorful! White chocolate and coconut are the perfect combination! Keep this moist layer cake in mind for your special occasions!
Lemon Coconut Cake with Lemon Curd Filling
You'll love these moist lemon cake layers with coconut baked right into the batter. The filling of lemon curd and whipped coconut cream cheese frosting is heavenly!
Orange Dreamsicle Cake {A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe}
This delicious Orange Dreamsicle Cake all starts with a simple cake mix! We love the combination of the orange cake layers with orange cream filling and orange cream cheese frosting!
Strawberry Champagne Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix
You can never go wrong with strawberries and champagne! This delicious layer cake is perfect for warm spring and summer months and makes a fabulous dessert for adult birthdays and celebrations! This recipe is based on a cake mix!
Lemon Cake from Scratch
This light and lemony scratch lemon cake is so moist and flavorful! I love it year-round, but especially in the spring and summer months! This has been one of our most popular recipes over the years!
Milk Chocolate Cake
I love all of our chocolate cake recipes, but this Milk Chocolate version is a nice change of pace as it's a bit milder but still so wonderfully flavorful! This cake has moist milk chocolate cake layers with milk chocolate ganache and milk chocolate buttercream! SO good!
Coconut Lime Cake
This Coconut Lime Layer Cake has the perfect combination of flavors! We love this moist and flavorful cake for spring and summer birthdays, showers, or just because!
Strawberry Sour Cream Cake with White Chocolate Frosting
Delicious Strawberry Sour Cream Cake with White Chocolate Frosting! This moist scratch strawberry layer cake is sure to please a crowd!
Lemon Sour Cream Cake
This moist Lemon Sour Cream Cake is amazing! It pairs well with so many fillings and frostings, but in this recipe we've chosen a delightful Lemon Seven Minute Frosting. Enjoy!
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cake
This flavorful Chocolate Cherry Cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser! Moist, cherry flavored chocolate cake layers are filled and frosted with cherry cream cheese frosting!
Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
All the wonderful flavor of banana pudding in cake form! We love this amazing recipe with it's moist banana cake layers filled with vanilla wafers, bananas, and vanilla cream, and frosted in cream cheese frosting! SO good!
Piña Colada Cake Recipe from Scratch
Piña Colada Cake should be the official party cake of summer! I love the combination of coconut and pineapple (with a hint of rum)! So perfectly moist and delicious!
Pink Lemonade Cake from Scratch
Pink Lemonade Cake tastes like a slice of summer! The slight tartness of lemony flavor is perfectly balanced with just the right amount of sweetness...not to mention a heavenly lemon cream cheese frosting!
Strawberry Cake -Version #2 {A Scratch Recipe}
This classic strawberry cake is super moist and bursting with flavor! Everybody needs a GOOD homemade strawberry cake- this is the recipe!
Margarita Cake with Tequila Lime Buttercream
Homemade margarita cake! This moist lemon-lime layer cake with tequila lime buttercream is fantastic!
Champagne and Strawberries Cake Recipe
This sophisticated Champagne and Strawberries Cake is amazingly moist and flavorful! It has just the right balance of strawberries and champagne!
Lemon Pound Cake
This Lemon Pound Cake recipe is so moist and bursting with lemon flavor! It tastes like springtime!
Lemon Raspberry Swirl Pound Cake
Oh how I love pound cake, and this combination of raspberry & lemon is perfection! So much flavor!
Lemon Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
I love lemon cakes! This cake mix version is so easy and fast to make!
Lime Cake from Scratch
Delicious Lime Layer Cake from Scratch with Lime Curd Filling! Oh so good and perfect for spring and summer celebrating!
Banana Cake with Butter Pecan Cream Cheese Filling
This super moist and flavorful homemade banana cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser no matter what the season!
Strawberry Cake- Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This easy Strawberry Cake all starts with a simple cake mix! So flavorful!
Margarita Cake - A Cake Mix Recipe
Everybody loves margaritas- especially in the form of a layer cake! This easy and flavorful cake mix version tastes amazing. Look for our scratch margarita cake too!
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake
Cherry Chocolate Chip cake is one of our most popular fruity cake recipes! I love the addition of the mini chocolate chips- chocolate and cherry flavors are perfect together!
Hummingbird Cake
This southern classic cake recipe has a wonderful blend of banana, crushed pineapple, and a hint of cinnamon! You don't even need your mixer for this one! Easy and delicious.
Cherry Cake from Scratch
This moist and flavorful Cherry Cake from Scratch is one of our favorites! Keep it in mind for spring and summer gatherings!
White Chocolate Raspberry Cake from Scratch
White chocolate and raspberry- ahhhh so good together! We love this moist and fruity cake for spring and summer entertaining!
Devil's Food Cake with Raspberry Filling- Scratch Recipe
This decadent devil's food cake is perfect with our raspberry frosting and a fantastic chocolate drip. So dramatic and beautiful!
Pink Champagne Cake {Scratch Recipe}
Pink Champagne Cake is the perfect cake for any special occasion! You really can taste the pink champagne- just the right amount of flavor!
Pineapple Cake Recipe
This Pineapple Cake Recipe is the best! Moist yellow cake layers with a luscious Pineapple & Cream Filling!
Pink Champagne Cake -A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
A quick and easy version of Pink Champagne Cake- still equally as delicious and sophisticated as our scratch recipe. Try them both!
Pound Cake Recipe- A Classic Southern Favorite
We've been making this pound cake in my family for years! Always a favorite, and I love the hint of lemon!
Strawberry Lemon Cake
Strawberry and Lemon cake (or Strawberry Lemonade Cake) has a wonderful flavor combination for summer months! So uniquely refreshing!
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cake
Everyone loves chocolate covered strawberries, especially when it's in cake form! You'll love this moist strawberry cake with rich ganache!
Almond Joy Cake Recipe
This Almond Joy Cake is amazing! Decadent chocolate cake layers with a thick and flavorful coconut filling, frosted in rich ganache.
Lemon Blueberry Cake from Scratch
Lemon and Blueberry! Such an amazing flavor combination, and you'll love the dreamy blueberry frosting too!
Carrot Cake Recipe from Scratch
This is the BEST Carrot Cake Recipe! It is so moist, and bursting with wonderful flavor from carrots, pineapple, coconut, nuts, and spices! If you've been searching for an amazing classic carrot cake recipe, this is the one!
Lemon Orange Layer Cake
This Lemon Orange Layer cake has wonderful citrus flavor! Lemon cake layers are filled with orange curd and frosted with orange cream cheese frosting! SO good!
Pineapple Coconut Cake
This moist and flavorful Pineapple Coconut Cake consists of homemade pineapple cake layers with a delicious pineapple filling and coconut cream cheese frosting!
Peaches and Cream Layer Cake
This flavorful Peaches and Cream cake from scratch is so moist and delicious! I love it for summer gatherings! It consists of peach cake layers (with bits of peach baked in), filled with a light peaches and cream filling and frosted in cream cheese frosting. Yum!
Strawberry Daiquiri Cake
This moist and flavorful Strawberry Daiquiri Cake is such a fun summertime or party cake- a delicious balance of flavors with strawberry, lime and a hint of rum! This is such a festive and unique cake recipe- and a new favorite for us!
Thanks for stopping by! We hope that you enjoyed this roundup of spring and summer cakes (which, as it turns out, doubles as a post of our favorite cakes with fruit!) If you try any of these recipes, we’d love to hear what you think! make sure to leave a comment below.
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I made the Peaches and Cream cake. A friend gave me peaches from his tree, they were awesome. To make it go further, I baked it in two 9×13 pans and layered one on the other in one pan putting the cream mixture in the middle. Frosted the top and took it to work. It was a hit! Everyone loved that it was creamy, but not overly sweet. I will definitely make this one again!! Thank.
Hi Deb! I’m so happy to hear it!