With Christmas just around the corner, we wanted to share our favorite tried and true Christmas cake recipes for the holiday dessert table! We hope that you enjoy these as much as we have!
Whether you are looking for traditional scratch layer cakes, quick and easy pound cakes, or super simple and delicious doctored cake mix recipes, we have just the dessert for you! Have fun scrolling through!
Roundup of the Best Christmas and Winter Cake Recipes
These Christmas and Winter Cakes are perfect for the season! We've included all of the traditional favorites as well as a few delicious new flavor combinations that are sure to please a crowd!
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.
Moist and buttery lemon pound cake is always a favorite!
This moist Coconut Pound Cake is easy to make and tastes amazing!
This moist Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake is SO delicious! We've frosted it with a luscious Peanut Butter Whipped Cream. This recipe all starts with a simple cake mix!
This delicious White Chocolate Pound Cake is so moist and has wonderful flavor!
This chocolate layer cake is so decadent, with homemade chocolate cake layers, truffle filling, and chocolate buttercream frosting!
This moist, decadent Chocolate Cannoli Cake consists of homemade chocolate sour cream cake layers with a chocolate-chocolate chip mascarpone filling and chocolate whipped cream frosting.
This delicious Snickerdoodle Cake has wonderful vanilla flavor with a swirl of cinnamon and sugar.
This light, moist, and flavorful Lemon Chiffon Cake has a wonderfully airy texture. Perfect for a baby or bridal shower, a tea, or just because!
This homemade White Chocolate Cherry Cake is so moist and delicious! Layers are brushed with maraschino cherry juice and frosted with white chocolate buttercream.
This moist Mint Oreo Cake with ganache and mint buttercream is the best! If you love the delicious combination of mint and chocolate, you will love this recipe!
Chocolate coconut cake layers are filled and frosted with whipped coconut cream cheese frosting is this decadent dessert!
This rich Peppermint Patty Cake is a delicious doctored cake mix recipe that consists of peppermint chocolate cake layers, peppermint buttercream, and a decadent ganache.
This moist, flavorful Rum Cake is so easy and delicious. Perfect for the holidays or just because- and it all starts with a simple cake mix!
Moist and delicious Hot Chocolate Cake with Hot Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Whipped Cream! This is such a delicious dessert and perfect for winter!
This moist Eggnog Latte Cake has a delicious balance of espresso, spices, and eggnog flavor! Perfect for winter and holiday gatherings!
This moist Apple Toffee Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting has an amazing combination of flavors- It is the perfect fall dessert!
This Vanilla Buttermilk Layer Cake is so moist and flavorful! It's a wonderful go-to vanilla cake which pairs beautifully with so many flavors of fillings and frostings!
This moist Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake is amazingly flavorful and perfect for fall! A delicious combination of two fall favorites.
This Black Forest Cake From Scratch is the Best! Chocolate cake infused with Cherry Liqueur and filled with whipped cream and cherry filling!
Moist and Delicious Red Velvet Cupcakes! This recipe is always a favorite (and can be used for cake layers as well!)
This moist and delicious Eggnog Cake from scratch is so flavorful and perfect for the holidays!
This moist and flavorful Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake has such a wonderful combination of flavors!
This moist and flavorful Eggnog Cake recipe is so easy and delicious, and it all starts with a simple cake mix!
We just love pound cake no matter what the occasion-- This classic version is SO flavorful and easy to make! Serve it just as it is or topped with berries and whipped cream!
This delicious Orange Spice Cake is super moist with wonderful flavor! Orange and spice are the perfect combination and this recipe is perfect for holiday celebrations!
This moist, flavorful spice cake is speckled with bits of cherries and is frosted in a heavenly spiced cream cheese frosting.
This light and lemony scratch lemon cake is so moist and flavorful! This lemon cake recipe is one of our most popular no matter what time of the year! We just had to include it in our roundup- if you love lemons, you're going to love this cake!
This decadent double chocolate pound cake tastes amazing and is so simple to make! If you love chocolate cake, this one is a keeper (and easy too)!!
This amazing Italian Cream Cake recipe has so much flavor from chopped pecans, coconut, cream cheese frosting and more!
Spice cake is always a good choice, especially around the holidays! We love this cake with our delicious orange spice cream cheese frosting. Heavenly!
This delicious Peppermint Mocha Cake is super moist and has the perfect balance of chocolate, peppermint, and espresso!
We love this moist and delicious classic red velvet cake recipe! We love to pair it with cream cheese frosting!
German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite for the holidays! You will love this moist and delicious classic recipe!
Mmmmmm....Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting! Nobody would guess that this recipe all starts from a mix!
Coconut Cake is a classic for the holidays! Yum!
This Chocolate Italian Cream Cake recipe is a delicious twist on a beloved classic!
This scratch Carrot Cake is my FAVORITE cake, and one of our most popular recipes on the site! Carrot cake with crushed pineapple, pecans, coconut, and spices!
I just love this Pineapple Coconut Layer Cake recipe! The combination of pineapple and coconut is perfection!
This Almond Joy Cake is amazing! Decadent chocolate cake layers with a thick and flavorful coconut filling, frosted in rich ganache.
This Pineapple Cake Recipe is the best! Moist yellow cake layers with a luscious Pineapple & Cream Filling!
Amazing Chocolate Candy Cane Cake! This recipe is so delicious and the striped candy cane filling is so unique and festive!
Hummingbird Cake is a tried and true classic recipe, with a winning combination of bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon!
This Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake recipe is divine! So decadent and with wonderful flavor!
This ultra moist White Chocolate Peppermint Cake with White Chocolate Peppermint Buttercream frosting is amazing!
I LOVE this holiday pound cake with the dramatic red velvet swirls & peppermint glaze! Heaven! This is sure to be a huge hit for your Christmas celebrations, or just because!
I just love gingerbread cake! This layer cake with spiced cream cheese frosting tastes fantastic and is perfect for the holidays!
This moist and delicious Gingerbread Latte Cake has the perfect balance of gingerbread and espresso flavor! This is the perfect choice for fall and winter holidays & entertaining!
So easy! This gingerbread layer cake all starts from a simple mix! Everyone loves this recipe!
This White Chocolate Cranberry Layer Cake has so much flavor and makes for a beautiful dessert!
Favorite Christmas Cake Designs!
Thanks so much for stopping by! If you are looking for CUTE and creative Christmas and winter cake designs to go along with these delicious recipes, don’t miss our Roundup of Favorite Winter and Christmas Cake Tutorials!
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Great selection! Now how to choose ;-) They look and sound delish!