Roundup of Favorite Mother's Day Cakes

Today we are sharing a roundup of our FAVORITE Mother’s Day cakes, tutorials, and ideas! With the big day just around the corner, it is time to start thinking of ways to make the day extra special!

When I think about Mother’s Day cake ideas, my mind immediately goes to buttercream flowers, elegant piped designs, sweet springtime scenes, and pastel colors.

We’ve created many cake designs and recipes over the years that would be perfect for Mother’s Day! Below you’ll find several of our favorites, along with design inspiration from other pages as well. Enjoy!

Mother’s Day Cake Ideas

Let’s start with some cute and simple cake tutorials from our Free Tutorials Section!

There’s nothing sweeter than a platter of pretty Petit Fours. Years ago, I avoided making petit fours at all costs. They were just so time consuming and it was difficult for me to get the uniform look that I was going for. Well, I’m happy to say that those days are over!

We have a great Petit Four Video Tutorial on how to make these adorable cakes using a couple of very simple, tried and true methods! These are perfect for showers, teas, teacher gifts, and of course, a little something sweet for Mother’s Day!

This sweet “I Love You Bunches” Cake features a couple of adorable elephants and a simple piped bouquet of buttercream flowers! This is a textured buttercream cake design with fondant accents.

Another popular choice for Mother’s Day is a cupcake bouquet! This cute and simple buttercream cupcake bouquet could not be simpler to put together.

Whether you choose to pipe one style of buttercream flower or many, the end result is sure to bring smiles! In this cupcake tutorial, I demonstrate a few on our favorite simple buttercream piping techniques!This is perfect for all skill levels of cake decorating! Bouquet of Cupcakes Tutorial.

Fondant Ruffle Roses continue to be popular in cake decorating (I think that they always will be)! This sweet pink fondant ruffle rose cake is an old favorite from our Free Tutorials section. I love the vintage feel!

In this free cake tutorial, I demonstrate how to create a beautiful ruffle rose using a strip of fondant. Hop over to see!: Fondant Ruffle Rose Cake Tutorial

(You can use this simple technique to make one large beautiful ruffle rose, or you can carry the design all the way around the tier!)

Now, more flowers! Mother’s Day always has be dreaming of buttercream flower designs!

This buttercream ranunculus tutorial is another favorite of mine because the results look so impressive while the actual technique is simple! In this free video tutorial, you’ll not only learn how to create a buttercream ranunculus flower, but also how to arrange them in a pull-apart cupcake cake design! Who knew that cupcake cakes can be elegant?!

Find the tutorial here: Buttercream Ranunculus Cupcake Tutorial

These adorable birdhouse cake toppers are so quick and easy to make! You may have noticed that I have a weakness for bird themed sweets. We have so many on our site!

These custom birdhouse toppers are a great way to add a little cuteness and height to your cakes! You could even place them in the center of a platter of cupcakes. Find our free cake tutorial here! Birdhouse Cake Topper Tutorial!

Awwww….Owl Love You Forever! This sweet free video tutorial is perfect for all sorts of occasions, and Mother’s Day is one of them! If you’d like, you can make one of the owls larger so that it looks like a Mother Owl with her baby owl! This is a great tutorial for all skill levels of cake decorating! Owl Love You Forever- Free Cake Video Tutorial

Springtime Flowers in Chocolate! This is another old favorite of mine from our Free Tutorials section! In this free video, you will learn how to pipe candy coating flowers quickly and easily! These are so elegant and yet so simple to make! They make the perfect cupcake toppers as well as a beautiful cascade for cakes!

Candy coating is one of my favorite mediums for decorating cakes because they can be piped, chilled, and ready to use in minutes!

Cascading Rosettes of Buttercream! In this free video, you will learn one of my FAVORITE buttercream piping techniques! This piping can be done so quickly, and I just love the look! In fact, nobody would believe that you didn’t spend hours in the kitchen! (Your secret is safe with me!)

Hop over to see!: Cascading Rosettes of Buttercream- Free Video

Next up, adorable Birdcage Themed cupcakes! In this free tutorial, learn how to make a few different bird and birdcage designs for the sweetest platter of cupcakes ever! We love these for all sorts of occasions from birthdays to baby showers to Mother’s Day! Birdcage Cupcake Tutorial

This Buttercream Heart Cake is from a really fun and informative ribbon rose tutorial! In this free cake video, you will learn how easily you can pipe, chill, and decorate with buttercream accents! There’s no need to wait hours and hours for the roses to dry with this method (hooray!).

Whether you replicate this exact cake design, or use ribbon roses to create beautiful borders, wreaths, or bouquets for your cakes, I think that this is a technique that you will come back to again and again! Have fun experimenting!

Perfect Cake Recipes for Mother’s Day

I’ve picked out a few cake recipes that I think would be perfect for Mother’s Day. If you’d like to scroll through our complete listing of FAVORITE Cake Recipes, you can find them here: Cake and Frosting Recipes by MyCakeSchool.com

First up, Pound Cake!! I love this flavorful Classic Pound Cake Recipe. It is super moist and delicious, and SO easy to make!

It’s always nice to have a go-to recipe that can be prepared in a hurry and without a lot of decoration. This cake is amazing on it’s own, or in the spring & summer I love top it with strawberries and cream! Don’t miss out on this deliciousness!: Pound Cake Recipe

Ooooh… Lemon Cake is one of my favorites, and a favorite on our site as well!! You’ll love this moist and delicious scratch recipe, and when paired with lemon curd filling and lemon cream cheese frosting, it is out of this world! Homemade Lemon Cake Recipe

Another delicious recipe that I’ve selected for this Mother’s Day post is good old fashioned Hummingbird Cake! This recipe is so flavorful with an amazing combination of bananas, pineapple, and cinnamon. It is fantastic with cream cheese frosting and has been one of my favorites for years!

This Banana Pudding Cake is a great choice– it’s unique, the flavor is just as fantastic as it sounds (moist banana cake layers with a vanilla cream filling, vanilla wafers, and cream cheese frosting), and it’s just so pretty on the dessert table ;0) – Don’t miss this one!

Finally, Carrot Cake is probably my most popular recipe year-round…and especially as we approach holidays! Whether Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day…Carrot Cake is always at the top of the list!

It’s my personal favorite too, and so if you’re searching for an AMAZING Carrot Cake recipe, here it is!!

mother’s day cake ideas from our Member Cake Video Tutorial Section

Next, I’m featuring a few favorites from our Member section of My Cake School! Did you know that in addition to our free tutorials and recipes sections, we have a section filled with hundreds of cake decorating videos for our members? You can find all of the details Here. Memberships are a great gift too (even for Mother’s Day!)

Here’s a recent favorite cake of ours that features a cascade of ribbon rose meringues! I LOVE the pretty look of this cake, and the unique dimension that the meringues add! Meringue Roses Cake

Next, a beautiful Buttercream Floral Wreath Cake with a swirled pattern around the sides! Buttercream cakes are my favorite!

Here’s a cake from our member section that is one of my favorites! I can never resist giant fluffy frosting flowers! They are so much fun to make. Fluffy Frosting Flower Video Tutorial

Next, this Gigantic Buttercream Rose cake would be perfect for Mother’s Day! The technique is surprisingly simple for any skill level of cake decorating!

Here’s a sweet Hummingbird Cake Topper that we made in another of our member cake videos, complete with a demonstration of piping beautiful fluffy frosting flowers!

Here’s another tutorial from our member cake video section for a beautiful Birdcage Cake! This cake is frosted in buttercream with fondant accents. This cheerful cake is perfect for all sorts of occasions! Birdcage Cake Video Tutorial

Another favorite from our member cake video section! Fresh flowers on a gold drip cake, complete with watercolor fondant! I absolutely love drip cakes, and the gold adds a bit of drama! This sweet and simple Gold Drip Cake is perfect for Mother’s Day!

Mother’s Day Cake Inspiration from other great Cake Pages

Finally, I’m going to share a few beautiful cakes and sweets that I found on other pages that would be perfect for Mother’s Day! Some of these are cake tutorials, and others are simply for inspiration!

I love the candy coating panels in this Rosy Mother’s Day Cake by Wilton!

Sweet and simple Floral Wreath Cake by I Heart Baking! You can never go wrong with wreaths of buttercream flowers!

This gorgeous pink ombre cake with buttercream piping and beautiful fresh flowers would be perfect for Mother’s Day! {Find this and other beautiful cakes on Hinaly’s instagram page}