These top 50 awesome cakes are a drool worthy list of the most gorgeous, delicious cool cakes I have ever seen. There is such a great variety of awesome cakes to make!
These cool cake recipes not only look awesome but taste amazing with something for everyone including boxed cake mix recipes, gluten free recipes or chocolate cakes!
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Awesome Cake Recipes with Chocolate
Chocolate cake is perfect for chocolate lovers especially when paired with the best chocolate buttercream frosting or this homemade chocolate frosting or even a coconut pecan frosting!
- Death by Chocolate Poke Cake: Filled with gooey caramel and topped with more chocolate!
- Best Chocolate Cake Recipe: Soft, moist chocolate cake layered with buttercream frosting never goes out of feeling like an awesome cake!
- Homemade German Chocolate Cake: If you love soft chocolate cake layered with gooey coconut pecan frosting, this awesome cake idea will have you drooling!
- Chocolate Lava Cake: This cool cake oozes chocolate molten lava and will wow guests!
- Chocolate Dump Cake: Easy but nonetheless delicious!
- Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake: If you love Reese’s cups this cheesecake is for you!
- Better Than Anything Cake: Also known as better than sex cake, this cool cake is swoon worthy.
- Samoa Bundt Cake: Like your favorite Girl Scout Cookie but in a cake from A Spicy Southern Kitchen.
- Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake: This cake from at SugarHero has a brownie base with three neapolitan layers of mousse topped with more chocolate!
- Salted Caramel Chocolate Fudge Cake: This cake from Domestic Gothess is one awesome creation with four layers of moist chocolate fudge cake filled with salted caramel swiss meringue buttercream!
- Glam Rock Layer Cake: Sweetapolita glams it up with this dark and cream cake!
- Sno-Ball Cake: Your favorite Hostess treat in a cake from at A Cozy Kitchen.
- Mocha Chocolate Cake: Liv for Cake has outdone herself with this rich dark chocolate cake with a silky Mocha Swiss Meringue buttercream, topped with a dreamy chocolate ganache.
- Cookie Dough Chocolate Cake: Love cookies, love cake? No need to choose between them with this cake from Liv for Cake.
- Thin Mint Chocolate Poke Cake: Another Girl Scout inspired cake from Life in the Lofthouse.
- Peanut Butter Snickers Cake: Chocolate cake layered with a peanut butter and chopped Snickers from Tastes of Lizzy T.
- Slutty Brownie Cake: You have to see it to believe it with this cake from What’s Gaby Cooking.
- Chocolate Chips Ahoy Dinosaur Cake: The cutest cake that will win over any dinosaur fan from Butterlust.
- Chocolate Orange Layer Cake: From at Taming Twins, this is made with chocolate sponge cake layered with orange frosting and garnished with orange slices.
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bundt Cake: Pure chocolate and peanut butter bliss from at Betsy Life!
- Chocolate Chocolate Cake: This cake has 4 times the chocolate and we are here for it at The First Year.
Fruity Cake Ideas That Taste Amazing
Whether you top a fruit forward cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting, lemon cream cheese frosting or marshmallow frosting these cool cakes are delicious!
- Strawberry Cake: If strawberries are your favorite this layer cake is made with layers of strawberry cake and strawberry cream cheese frosting!
- Strawberry Sour Cream Cake: This moist cake is studded with real strawberry pieces!
- Pineapple Upside Down Cake: A classic that is an awesome cake no matter the decade!
- Classic Strawberry Shortcake Recipe: Angel food cake is one of the coolest cakes out there with it’s unique height and light, fluffy texture. Top with strawberries and whipped cream!
- Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake: The best for all from Oh My Goodness Chocolate Desserts!
- Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake: At Live, Love, and Sugar has outdone it with this cherry cake studded with chocolate chips!
- Italian Lemon Pound Cake: Light, sweet and always a good reason to make this from at My Recipe Confessions.
- Fresh Cherry Cake with Chocolate Ganache: Chocolate and cherries are meant to be together and this cake shines from The First Year.
- Strawberry Chocolate Cake: From OMG Chocolate Desserts, it is like eating a chocolate covered strawberry!
- Summer Peach Upside Down Coffee Cake: An upside down favorite made with peaches from Whole & Heavenly Oven.
- Orange Creamsicle Cake: The Cake Blog brings us this summertime inspired treat!
- Raspberry Lemon Ruffle Cake: This lemon layer cake is layered with both raspberry buttercream and lemon curd for the ultimate dessert from Buttercream Blondie.
Gluten Free Cake Recipes
These cool cake recipes not only look great but they are free of gluten as well!
- Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake: The secret ingredient that keeps this cake moist is quinoa!
- Best Flourless Chocolate Cake: Rich and decadent this better than any restaurant!
- Gluten Free Funfetti Cake: A gluten free white cake by What the Fork is light and airy and filled with colorful sprinkles and topped with buttercream!
- Gluten Free Flourless Almond Honey Cake: A light and refreshing cake topped with berries from Your Home Based Mom
- Gluten Free Vanilla Cake: A mixed berry cream frosting is layered between white cake layers form this cool cake by Cakes by Courtney.
- Gluten Free Lemon Layer Cake: Light and lemony gluten free cake from Meaningful Eats!
- Gluten Free Red Velvet Cake: The perfect gluten free cake for any holiday celebration from Eat with Clarity
- Almond Crepe Cake with Raspberry Rose Cream: A stunning creation from Milly’s Kitchen!
Cool Cake Ideas for Special Occasions
Whether it’s for Cinco de Mayo, birthdays, or and Easter desserts, these cool cakes will impress guests!
- Best Coconut Cake Recipe: Soft coconut cake layers with cream cheese frosting and flaked coconut as garnish!
- Homemade Vanilla Cake: Bite after bite of this vanilla cake is dreamy!
- Tres Leches Cake: Moist, delicious and made with three milks. Make it Cinco de Mayo or all year round.
- Chocolate Fudge Cookies and Cream Cake: Our Best Bites made this for a birthday and the chocolate fudge layered cake gets only better with Oreo frosting.
- S’mores Cake Recipe: No need for a campfire when you make this cake from Pink When.
- Pinata Cake: How to make a pinata cake from In the Playroom will delight any child or adult!
- Pistachio Cake: A beautiful cake with delicious taste from Garnish and Glaze.
- Coconut Bundt Cake: Coconut bundt cake drizzled with cream cheese frosting and topped with toasted coconut from a Chef in Training.
- Tiramisu Cake: A classic cake that is always great after any Italian meal from at Simply Home Cooked.
- Milky Cake: Also known as tres leche cake, this version from at Let the Baking Begin is topped with a cream cheese frosting.
- Red Velvet Marble Cake: A cool cake that is almost too pretty to eat from I Heart Eating.
- M&M Peanut Butter Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting: There are so many reasons to make this cake that contains a bit of everything awesome from A Treats Affair.
- Boston Cream Crepe Cake: A cool cake with layers of Boston cream custard between crepes and topped with ganache from at Will Cook for Smiles.
- Carrot Cake Cheesecake Cake: This spring inspired cool cake idea is on repeat for Easter from Shugary Sweets.
- Rainbow Jello Cloud Cake: This Silly Girl’s Kitchen really went all out for this cake that is so colorful!
- Ice Cream Sandwich Cake: Just because it’s easy and one of my top no bake desserts, doesn’t mean it’s not cool and a crowd pleaser!
Best Chocolate Cake Recipe
This is the best chocolate cake recipe that is rich, moist and made from scratch in one bowl! Two layers fudgy cake with chocolate buttercream frosting is a classic perfect for any occasion.
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Chocolate Poke Cake
This chocolate poke cake is filled with ooey gooey caramel sauce and topped with even more chocolate. This recipe is super easy, quick and a chocolate lovers dream!
Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
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German Chocolate Cake
A rich and moist homemade German chocolate cake layered with a classic coconut-pecan frosting and chocolate buttercream.
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Better Than Anything Cake Recipe
This better than anything cake has a rich chocolate base and is infused with caramel and sweetened condensed milk. To top it all off, you'll add some whipped topping and toffee bits.
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe
This chocolate lava cake is a dessert lovers dream with a molten chocolate center that is rich and fudgy! Made with only a handful of ingredients it's ready in less than 30 minutes.
Total Time: 27 minutes
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No Bake Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake
This easy Reese's no-bake chocolate peanut butter cheesecake is smooth, creamy and loaded with peanut butter cups and a chocolate crust then topped with a rich chocolate ganache!
Total Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
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Chocolate Chocolate Cake
This Chocolate Chocolate Cake is amazing! With chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache, and chocolate shards – this is the PERFECT chocolate cake! Whewwww! Guys, I’m really glad pumpkin has moved on and other flavors are taking the stage.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bundt Cake
Best birthday cake ever? Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bundt Cake, for sure! With 2 cake batters and 2 ganaches (hello, peanut butter ganache!), you’ll find yourself in sweet chocolate heaven. Pure chocolate and peanut butter indulgence!
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Chocolate Orange Cake {Easy Recipe!}
The best ever Chocolate Orange Cake recipe. Layers of moist chocolate orange sponge, sandwiched with chocolate orange buttercream icing.
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Chocolate Chips Ahoy Dinosaur Cake
I’d like to pretend that the timing of this cake was intentional. Carefully planned to coincide with the film release heard around the world (or at least by those of us whose formative years fell i…
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Slutty Brownie Cake (Triple Layered!) – What’s Gaby Cooking
Taking those addictive slutty brownies to the next level with this gorgeous and decadent triple layer Slutty Brownie Cake!
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Peanut Butter Snickers Cake
Chocolate cake layered with peanut butter frosting and chopped peanut butter Snickers bars make this peanut butter Snickers cake a decadent dessert!
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Thin Mint Chocolate Poke Cake
Thin Mint Chocolate Poke Cake is filled with chocolate pudding, crushed thin mint cookies, and topped with peppermint whipped topping! You guys, this cake. It’s what my Thin Mint cookie dreams are made of and then some. This chocolate poke cake is filled with chocolate pudding AND crushed thin mint cookies. Wowza. It is really…
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Cookie Dough Cake
Combine classic chocolate cake with your favorite guilty pleasure in this Cookie Dough Cake!
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Chocolate Mocha Cake
This Mocha Chocolate Cake is the ultimate indulgence. A rich dark chocolate cake with a silky mocha swiss meringue buttercream.
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Sno Ball Cake
Sno Ball Cake is inspired by the Hostess snack, sno balls. This is a chocolate cake, layered with fluffy marshmallow frosting and coconut flakes.
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Glam Rock Layer Cake
Oh, hi! I’m here! And I come bearing twinkly black cake–Glam Rock Layer Cake, to be exact. A sweet celebration of contrast and colour! As you probably remember, I spend most of my days now in the shop packing orders and making sprinkle medleys, which means that my day is literally filled with every colour in the unive
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Salted Caramel Chocolate Fudge Cake
Salted caramel chocolate fudge cake – Four layers of moist chocolate fudge cake filled with salted caramel swiss meringue buttercream, topped with whipped chocolate ganache & a liberal dose of salted caramel
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Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake
This stunning Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake has a moist, fudgy brownie base, three layers of light mousse—chocolate, raspberry, and vanilla, and then a glossy topping of chocolate.
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Samoa Bundt Cake
Samoa Cake tastes like the beloved girl scout cookie in bundt cake form with a tender cake covered in a caramel frosting and lots of toasted coconut.
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Strawberry Cake Recipe
My easy-to-follow strawberry cake recipe combines homemade vanilla cake with a fresh strawberry reduction then a luscious strawberry cream cheese frosting!
Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
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Strawberry Sour Cream Cake
Perfectly moist and soft sour cream cake filled with fresh strawberries. Then topped with a sweet lemon glaze to make the ultimate summer cake recipe!
Total Time: 2 hours
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Pineapple Upside Down Cake Recipe
This easy pineapple upside down cake is made with a moist, buttery vanilla cake base adorned by a caramelized pineapple topping dotted with maraschino cherries. It's a classic!
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
This classic strawberry shortcake is made with a light angel food cake base and topped with whipped cream and sweetened strawberries. It's a fruity dessert perfect for summer!
Total Time: 2 hours
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Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake
Are you ready for fall baking? Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake is the perfect dessert for crisp weather coming up.You must try this coffee cake loaded with apples
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Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake | Naturally Pink Birthday Cake Recipe
This Cherry Chocolate Chip Cake is so fun and filled with cherry and chocolate flavor. I’m totally in love with the naturally pink color, too!
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Italian Lemon Pound Cake
Italian Lemon Pound Cake is the only lemon cake recipe you will ever need! You are going to love the super moist texture and the rich citrus flavor.
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Fresh Cherry Cake with Chocolate Ganache
A 3 layer white cake filled with chopped cherries and cherry buttercream. Topped with a drizzled chocolate ganache and fresh cherries!
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Strawberry Chocolate Cake
Strawberry Chocolate Cake is like the best chocolate covered strawberries you’ve ever eaten!!!
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Peach Upside Down Cake
Sweet, caramel-y peaches and a soft vanilla cake base star in this summery peach upside down cake that’s perfect for any occasion.
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Orange Creamsicle Cake
An Orange Creamsicle layer cake. A nostalgic flavor combination perfect for summer BBQ’s and birthdays. By Tessa Huff for TheCakeBlog.com.
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Raspberry Ruffle Layer Cake
When I think Mother’s Day, I think pretty, bright and fabulous! I wanted to create a cake that was all that and then some because mom deserves the best! Bright Spring flavors, comforting and makes you smile pretty much sums up this raspberry lemon layer cake! This is one of those cakes where I don’t even know where to
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Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
A rich gluten-free chocolate cake made with cooked quinoa that you can't even taste! It's a soft, moist, and decadent.
Total Time: 50 minutes
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Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe
This flourless chocolate cake is rich, fudgy and the ultimate chocolate lover's dessert. It's easy to make, topped with chocolate ganache and naturally gluten-free!
Total Time: 3 hours 40 minutes
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Gluten Free Funfetti Cake
This gluten free funfetti cake is perfect for birthday celebrations. It’s also dairy free, light and airy and filled with colorful sprinkles.
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Almond Cake {Gluten Free}
Almond Cake is soft and moist, has a delicious honey glaze, and is gluten free. Topped with fresh berries it is the perfect summer treat.
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Gluten-Free Lemon Layer Cake
This gluten-free lemon cake is truly BEST lemon cake I’ve ever made. Buttermilk powder makes this cake extra light and tender!
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Gluten Free Red Velvet Cake
This gluten free red velvet cake is moist, fluffy with the perfect hints of chocolate and vanilla. With a simple cream cheese frosting.
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almond crepe cake with raspberry-rose cream — Milly’s Kitchen
Today, I give you cake! An Almond Crepe Cake with Raspberry-Rose Cream to be precise. I know this isn’t the most Christmas-y of recipes. But today is my birthday. And I decided I needed to bake myself a beautiful non-holiday-flavored cake! Before I get down to the details of how to whip up this ra
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Coconut Cake Recipe
This moist coconut cake is triple layered with a luscious coconut cream cheese frosting and garnished with sweet coconut flakes. This elegant cake is perfect for any special occasion!
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Homemade Vanilla Cake
The best vanilla cake is an impressive yet simple one-bowl recipe that makes even a beginner baker feel like a professional! A soft tender cake infused with the heavenly flavor of vanilla that pairs well with any frosting!
Total Time: 1 hour
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Tres Leches Cake Recipe
This tres leches cake recipe is easy to make with a moist vanilla cake mix and a three different milks! It's perfectly light and refreshing with the best sweet flavor.
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Chocolate Fudge Cookies & Cream Cake
The best party cake! It’s sooo soft and fudgy and chocolaty and the creamy white cookie-studded frostingis to die for.
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The BEST Smores Cake Dessert – an EASY dessert!
A graham cracker crust, chocolate bar covering, vanilla flavored cake, and a toasted marshmallow topping make this Chocolate S’mores Cake Recipe the perfect summer dessert for picnics and parties.
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How to Make a Pinata Cake
How to make a pinata cake for kids birthday parties. Easy step by step instructions
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Pistachio Cake with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting – Garnish & Glaze
This light and tender Pistachio Cake with Honey Cream Cheese Frosting is the prefect treat to enjoy with your friends and family this spring.
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Coconut Bundt Cake – Chef in Training
This is an incredibly moist cake loaded with coconut flavor! The Cream Cheese Frosting on top is the perfect pairing. This cake with be loved by all who try it! Coconut happens to be a favorite in my family. It is a weakness for both my mom and dad, particularly my dad. Any dessert with coconut […]
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Tiramisu Cake Recipe (VIDEO)
This tiramisu cake recpe is a classic Italian cake that’s made with coffee soaked sponge cake and layered between a sweet mascarpone cream.
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Tres Leches Cake (Milky Cake
The quick and easy, with tender sweetened condensed milk cake layers frosted with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting.
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Red Velvet Marble Cake Recipe
Red Velvet Marble Cake recipe makes a red velvet swirl cake from scratch and includes tips for making perfect marble cake swirls.
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M&M’S peanut butter cake with peanut butter frosting recipe
Peanut butter cake loaded with chopped Peanut Butter M&M’s and a dreamy peanut butter frosting, this cake is a peanut butter lover dream come true!
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Boston Cream Crepe Cake
I’m sharing my recipe for this Boston Cream Crepe Cake, it’s a cake that has custard layered in between crepes and topped with ganache frosting.
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Carrot Cake Cheesecake Cake
This Carrot Cake Cheesecake Cake is a showstopper! Layers of homemade carrot cake, a cheesecake center and it’s all topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting!
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Easy Layered Rainbow Jello Cake Recipe
Imagine taking a bite of a cake that’s not just irresistibly delicious but also a feast for the eyes, with vibrant layers that seem to dance under the light. This Jello Cake Recipe is all that and more. Let’s talk about this Rainbow Jello Cake Recipe! This recipe has completely won over my heart and…
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Ice Cream Sandwich Cake Recipe
This ice cream sandwich cake is the best summer dessert! It's easy to make this no-bake treat with ice cream sandwiches, hot fudge sauce, Oreo's and Cool Whip.
Total Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
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Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
Thank you for all the wonderful cake recipes
You are so welcome!
Fantastic looking, now ti decide which to try first…
Oh my goodness, what an incredible roundup of such varied and lish-looking cakes! Pinned more than one of these! Thanks, my dear!
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Such a rich collection. I need a piece of the mint one right at this moment ;) .
wow they are truly the most beautiful cakes ever seen. Especially love the raspberry! Thanks for taking time to share ;) xx
WOW- those are certainly amazing!!! Now I need a piece of cake in the worst way!!!