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Are you looking for the perfect birthday cake recipe to celebrate that special someone? Good news. Here you will find a variety of options, ranging from this go-to, one-bowl buttermilk birthday cake recipe to this best-ever, rich chocolate cake recipe.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

This chocolate cake, made with buttermilk and oil — no butter — and exclusively cocoa — no melted chocolate — is incredibly light and moist and stays this way — tasting freshly baked — for days. It's another Ina Garten recipe, one she begged for from a friend, the grandson of Beatty, after taking one bite. // alexandracooks.com

Beatty’s Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

A slice of double chocolate cake with black velvet icing.

The Best Double Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing

One-Bowl Buttermilk Birthday Cake

This chocolate-espresso icebox cake takes all of 20 minutes to throw together, will receive rave reviews from your guests, and you will find too irresistible, impossible, in fact, not to sneak a little spoonful of every time you open the fridge. // alexandracooks.com

Chocolate-Espresso Icebox Cake

just-baked orange-ricotta pound cake — this is a one-bowl cake, flavored with orange zest and orange liqueur, made with butter (as opposed to oil). It stays moist for days and makes a wonderful gift.

One-Bowl, Orange-Ricotta Pound Cake

Dense chocolate loaf cake.

Nigella Lawson’s Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

A bowl of homemade vegan chocolate mousse made with whipped aquafaba.

Vegan Chocolate Mousse (Aquafaba + Almond milk)

A tray of cupcakes decorated as owls.

One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes

A frosted carrot cake.

Ultimate Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

A sliced loaf of lemon semolina cake.

Lemon-Semolina Almond Cake

Homemade Angel Food Cake

A box of sugar-crusted vanilla bean sables.

Dorie Greenspan’s Vanilla Bean Sablés

TKO Ice Cream Sandwiches

A sheet pan filled with chocolate-coconut cookies.

Dark Chocolate, Coconut, Oatmeal Cookies

Lemon-Buttermilk Cake

A selection of pantry recipes to make right now.

A quart container filled with cooked chickpeas.

A pan of just-baked penne alla vodka.

This roasted tomato soup has been made completely to taste. If you start with a base of slow roasted tomatoes, onions, garlic and shallots, I assure you your soup will be a success. Served with a few shavings of Parmigiano Reggiano and a piece of crusty bread, it makes a wonderful late summer meal. // alexandracooks.com

This apple, cheddar, mustard sandwich is easy to whip up, satisfying, and will not last long on any plate. // alexandracooks.com

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