Most Popular Cakes of 2025

This year's most popular recipe is an oldie but it always brings rave reviews-- Carrot Cake! This moist homemade Carrot Cake is a longtime favorite, and the only carrot cake recipe you'll ever need, with carrots, cinnamon, coconut, crushed pineapple, pecans, and cream cheese frosting. So good!

Next up is our White Velvet Cake! This recipe and our Carrot Cake recipe often flip flop for the most popular year after year. It is a light cake with fantastic flavor, a fine crumb, and velvety soft texture.

Coming in at number 3, our doctored cake mix version of Carrot Cake! If you love working from a box mix, this recipe is for you. It tastes just like a scratch cake, thanks to the added spices, coconut, shredded carrots, pineapple, pecans, and of course cream cheese frosting!

We have several Champagne Cakes on our site- but this moist Champagne Velvet Cake was especially popular this past year. (Our Pink Champagne Cake is super popular as well!)

This moist Lemon Cake recipe is simple to make, and it all starts with a box of cake mix!

This easy Coconut Cake is another great doctored cake mix recipe, bursting with delicious coconut flavor. Nobody would guess that it starts with a mix!

This moist Orange Dreamsicle Cake with orange cream filling and orange cream cheese frosting tastes just like a Dreamsicle! It is a longtime favorite on our site, as is our doctored cake mix version of dreamsicle cake!

Another favorite for 2025-- This Lemon Cheesecake Cake is guaranteed to make any occasion feel more special! A layer of lemony cheesecake sits between two moist lemon buttermilk cake layers in this delicious dessert!

Coming in at number 9 for 2025- a delicious Homemade Strawberry Cake! This cake has a wonderful flavor and texture. We have a great doctored cake mix strawberry cake as well!

This rich Million Dollar Pound Cake is so buttery, moist, and simple to make! Enjoy it just as it is or topped with berries and cream! This is an amazing go-to pound cake, and one of many pound cakes and bundt cakes on our site!

Here's another delicious doctored cake mix recipe, and our 11th most visited recipe in 2025. This moist Boston Cream Pie recipe has gotten great reviews over the past few years, and is so easy to put together! Yellow cake layers area filled with vanilla cream filling and topped with rich ganache- so good!

This Italian Cream Cake is SO flavorful with pecans, coconut, and cream cheese frosting. It is one of my personal favorites also! If you've been searching for a go-to Italian Cream Cake, try this one. You will love it!

This Easy Coconut Rum Cake is one of many rum cakes on our site! This recipe starts with a cake mix, and is flavored with coconut and a rich, buttery rum glaze. Deliciousness! Try our Easy Rum Cake & Easy Banana Rum Cake recipes also!

This Almond Cake is another great recipe that pops up on our "most popular" list year after year. It is very moist with fantastic almond flavor. It is one of our personal favorites as well! If you love almond desserts, save this recipe.

And finally, rounding out our list is our scratch recipe for Lemon Sour Cream Cupcakes! These moist cupcakes are swirled with Lemon Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting. They are perfect for birthdays, baby showers, and more!