70+ Christmas Cake Recipes
With Christmas just around the corner, we wanted to share our favorite tried and true Christmas cake recipes for the holiday dessert table!
Any of these delicious cakes would be a delicious choice no matter what the season, but we especially love them in the winter months!
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! If you give any of these cake recipes a try, we would love for you to leave a photo and comment below.
Some of our most popular Christmas Cake recipes are our Easy Rum Cake, Black Forest Cake, Italian Cream Cake, and homemade Eggnog Cake!
Favorite Christmas Cake Designs!
If you are looking for cute and creative Christmas and winter cake designs to go along with these delicious cake recipes, don't miss our Roundup of Favorite Winter and Christmas Cake Tutorials!
We have so many fun, free cake decorating tutorials to share for all skill levels of cake decorating. Some of our most popular are our Santa Cake, Tiered Snowman Cake, Sledding Snowman Cake, and Pickup Truck Cake!
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!
Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake
This decadent Red Velvet Cheesecake Cake is as delicious as it is beautiful! A layer of cheesecake is sandwiched between two homemade red velvet cake layers and frosted with cream cheese frosting in this delicious dessert!
Peppermint Bundt Cake
This moist Peppermint Bundt Cake has wonderful flavor and is beautiful when sliced! Keep this recipe in mind for your Christmas parties!
Cranberry Orange Cake
This moist, tender Cranberry Orange Cake has amazing flavor and a soft texture. This is such a delicious cake for fall and winter gatherings! Cranberry Orange cake layers are filled with homemade cranberry filling and frosted with orange cream cheese frosting! (See our White Chocolate Cranberry Cake recipe as well!)
Gingerbread Pound Cake
This amazingly moist, flavorful Gingerbread Pound Cake has a velvety soft texture and amazing flavor! You will love this easy recipe- especially in the fall and winter months!
Gingerbread Bundt Cake
Calling all gingerbread cake lovers! This moist gingerbread bundt cake has wonderful gingerbread flavor from the molasses, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon in the recipe! We've topped it with a homemade caramel glaze.
Italian Cream Bundt Cake- Doctored Cake Mix
This moist Italian Cream Bundt Cake has amazing flavor from a combination coconut, pecans, and cream cheese frosting! Nobody would guess that it starts with a cake mix!
Red Velvet Pound Cake
This moist Red Velvet Pound Cake has wonderful richness from the butter and cream in the recipe, and the perfect amount of chocolate flavor. We love it with cream cheese frosting!
Eggnog Pound Cake
This perfectly decadent Eggnog Pound Cake is ultra moist and flavored with eggnog, nutmeg and cinnamon. We've topped it with spiced cream cheese frosting. Keep this recipe in mind for your Christmas and winter gatherings!
Eggnog Rum Cake
This ultra moist Eggnog Rum Cake has amazing flavor and richness from eggnog, warm spices, and a buttery rum glaze. Nobody would guess that this cake starts with a box of yellow cake mix!
Peppermint Cake
This moist, soft & velvety Peppermint Cake is the perfect dessert for Christmas and winter celebrations!
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.
Caramel Eggnog Pound Cake
This moist and delicious Caramel Eggnog Pound Cake has wonderful richness from the eggnog in the recipe, as well as the flavor of cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and a homemade caramel glaze. Perfect for the holidays!
Brownie Cake
This easy and delicious Brownie Cake has wonderful brownie flavor but in cake form! It all starts with a box of brownie mix. Perfect for the chocolate lovers!
Chocolate Fudge Cake
This ultra moist Chocolate Fudge Cake has a rich yet mellow flavor thanks to the dutch process cocoa in the recipe. It is a quick, easy, wonderful go-to chocolate cake!
Banana Rum Cake (from cake mix)
This decadent Banana Rum Cake is ultra moist and has amazing flavor. Nobody would guess that this recipe starts with a box of yellow cake mix!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake with Peanut Butter Whipped Cream Frosting (Doctored Cake Mix)
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!
White Chocolate Pound Cake
This delicious White Chocolate Pound Cake is so moist and has wonderful flavor!
Chocolate Truffle Cake
This chocolate layer cake is so decadent, with homemade chocolate cake layers, truffle filling, and chocolate buttercream frosting!
Chocolate Cannoli Cake
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.
Snickerdoodle Cake
This delicious Snickerdoodle Cake has wonderful vanilla flavor with a swirl of cinnamon and sugar.
White Chocolate Velvet Cake
This moist, soft, fluffy white chocolate cake has a velvety texture from the cream cheese in the cake batter! You will love the white chocolate filling and white chocolate buttercream frosting too!
White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake
This moist, tender White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake is so delicious and makes for a beautiful slice too!
Lemon Chiffon Cake
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!
White Chocolate Cherry Cake
This homemade White Chocolate Cherry Cake is so moist and delicious! Layers are brushed with maraschino cherry juice and frosted with white chocolate buttercream.
Mint Oreo Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
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!
Maple Carrot Cake
This moist Maple Carrot Cake is so delicious with carrots, spices, pecans, pineapple, coconut maple with maple cream cheese frosting!
Coconut Cream Cake
This heavenly Coconut Cream Cake has such amazing flavor! Moist cake layers are filled with homemade coconut pastry cream and frosted with a whipped coconut cream cheese frosting in this crowd-pleasing dessert.
Lemon Coconut Cake (Doctored Cake Mix Recipe)
This moist Lemon Coconut Cake from Cake Mix is so soft, moist, and delicious! You will love the combination of lemon cake layers with lemon curd filling and coconut whipped cream cheese frosting! The cake is covered in a coat of flaked coconut as well for a beautiful, impressive dessert
Coconut Hummingbird Cake
This delicious Coconut Hummingbird Cake is so moist and has amazing flavor from bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans, and coconut!
Chocolate Coconut Layer Cake
Chocolate coconut cake layers are filled and frosted with whipped coconut cream cheese frosting is this decadent dessert!
Peppermint Patty Cake-Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
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.
Rum Cake- Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
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!
Hot Chocolate Cake
Moist and delicious Hot Chocolate Cake with Hot Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Whipped Cream! This is such a delicious dessert and perfect for winter!
Eggnog Latte Cake
This moist Eggnog Latte Cake has a delicious balance of espresso, spices, and eggnog flavor! Perfect for winter and holiday gatherings!
Apple Toffee Caramel Cake {A Scratch Recipe}
This moist Apple Toffee Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting has an amazing combination of flavors- It is the perfect fall dessert!
Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Recipe
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!
Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake
This moist Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake is amazingly flavorful and perfect for fall! A delicious combination of two fall favorites.
Black Forest Cake Recipe
This Black Forest Cake From Scratch is the Best! Chocolate cake infused with Cherry Liqueur and filled with whipped cream and cherry filling!
Red Velvet Cupcake (and Cake) Recipe from Scratch
Moist and Delicious Red Velvet Cupcakes! This recipe is always a favorite (and can be used for cake layers as well!)
Eggnog Cake with Eggnog Buttercream- A Scratch Recipe
This moist and delicious Eggnog Cake from scratch is so flavorful and perfect for the holidays!
Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist and flavorful Toffee Pecan Caramel Cake has such a wonderful combination of flavors!
Eggnog Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
This moist and flavorful Eggnog Cake recipe is so easy and delicious, and it all starts with a simple cake mix!
Pound Cake Recipe- A Classic Southern Favorite
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!
Orange Spice Cake- A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
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!
Cherry Spice Cake
This moist, flavorful spice cake is speckled with bits of cherries and is frosted in a heavenly spiced cream cheese frosting.
Lemon Cake from Scratch
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!
Double Chocolate Pound 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)!!
Italian Cream Cake Recipe
This amazing Italian Cream Cake recipe has so much flavor from chopped pecans, coconut, cream cheese frosting and more!
Spice Cake from Scratch with Orange Spice Cream Cheese Frosting
Spice cake is always a good choice, especially around the holidays! We love this cake with our delicious orange spice cream cheese frosting. Heavenly!
Peppermint Mocha Cake
This delicious Peppermint Mocha Cake is super moist and has the perfect balance of chocolate, peppermint, and espresso!
Red Velvet Cake from Scratch
We love this moist and delicious classic red velvet cake recipe! We love to pair it with cream cheese frosting!
German Chocolate Cake Recipe! {Scratch}
German Chocolate Cake is always a favorite for the holidays! You will love this moist and delicious classic recipe!
Red Velvet Cake - Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
Mmmmmm....Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting! Nobody would guess that this recipe all starts from a mix!
Chocolate Italian Cream Cake
This Chocolate Italian Cream Cake recipe is a delicious twist on a beloved classic!
Carrot Cake from Scratch
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!
Pineapple Coconut Cake
I just love this Pineapple Coconut Layer Cake recipe! The combination of pineapple and coconut is perfection!
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.
Pineapple Cake Recipe
This Pineapple Cake Recipe is the best! Moist yellow cake layers with a luscious Pineapple & Cream Filling!
Chocolate Candy Cane Cake with Striped Filling!- Free Video
Amazing Chocolate Candy Cane Cake! This recipe is so delicious and the striped candy cane filling is so unique and festive!
Hummingbird Cake
Hummingbird Cake is a tried and true classic recipe, with a winning combination of bananas, crushed pineapple, pecans, and a hint of cinnamon!
Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake Recipe
This Mocha Toffee Crunch Cake recipe is divine! So decadent and with wonderful flavor!
White Chocolate Peppermint Cake
This ultra moist White Chocolate Peppermint Cake with White Chocolate Peppermint Buttercream frosting is amazing!
Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze
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!
Gingerbread Cake {Scratch} with Spiced Cream Cheese Frosting
I just love gingerbread cake! This layer cake with spiced cream cheese frosting tastes fantastic and is perfect for the holidays!
Gingerbread Latte Cake Recipe
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!
Gingerbread Cake ~ A Doctored Cake Mix Recipe
So easy! This gingerbread layer cake all starts from a simple mix! Everyone loves this recipe!
White Chocolate Cranberry Cake
This White Chocolate Cranberry Layer Cake has so much flavor and makes for a beautiful dessert!
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Great selection! Now how to choose ;-) They look and sound delish!