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Describing something as a "piece of cake," means that it's really easy. Well, making a cake might be easy for an experienced baker, but if you're just starting out it can be daunting. To help you gain a little experience with cake-baking, I've pulled together 15 easy cakes that beginners can make. Some are made completely from scratch, and some get a little help from shortcut ingredients. But they're all popular, top-rated cakes that you can make without a whole lot of fuss. Now you can have your cake and eat it, too.
Simple White Cake
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Photo by Melissa Goff
You'll need only seven everyday ingredients to make this easy, versatile recipe, which you can use to bake a 9×9 cake or a dozen cupcakes. Tip: The recipe says to cream together the sugar and butter. For best results, beat them together until the texture is light and fluffy, about three to four minutes.
One Bowl Chocolate Cake III
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Photo by Dianne
It’s called a one-bowl cake because that’s all you’ll need to whip up the batter for this top-rated chocolate cake. Home cook lonnarific increased the cocoa to one full cup, and says it’s the “magic amount.” Give it the finishing touch with your choice of buttercream frosting.
Crazy Cake
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Photo by My Hot Southern Mess
This easy cake was made popular during the Great Depression, most likely because you don't need eggs, butter, or milk to make it. You can follow the recipe directions to mix and bake in the same pan, but if you want to remove the cake from the pan before serving, you should mix the batter in a bowl and pour it into a greased, floured, and lined cake pan.
Easy Yogurt Cake
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Photo by Diana Moutsopoulos
This easy cake uses a carton of yogurt as the measuring "cup" for the ingredients, and is ready in under an hour. Recipe creator Diana Moutsopolous says, "Try adding your favorite flavors or additions. A great one is 1/2 yogurt container mini chocolate chips! You could use lemon yogurt and add lemon zest for a lemon yogurt cake. The possibilities are endless! If you use a flavored and sweetened yogurt instead of plain, consider reducing the added sugar to 1 yogurt container."
Aunt Anne's Coffee Cake
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Photo by cookin'mama
You don't need a stand mixer to make this easy coffee cake. And just in case you were wondering, coffee cakes don't actually contain coffee as an ingredient. Instead, they're meant to be easy-to-make cakes that you can enjoy with a cup of coffee. Nothing fancy; just simply good.
Carrot Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
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Photo by Dianne
This straightforward recipe for carrot cake cupcakes includes the frosting recipe, too, so you won't have to go hunting it down. The frosting makes a generous amount, though. Be prepared to pile it high, or you can simply scale it down to make less frosting.
Chocolate Pudding Fudge Cake
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Photo by Molly
This pantry cake proves that good things can come in small packages. You take a box of devil's food cake mix, add a box of pudding mix plus sour cream, milk, oil, water and eggs. Pour it into a Bundt pan to bake, then drizzle with melted chocolate chips. So easy!
Lemon Bundt Cake
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"Lemon instant pudding and lemon-lime soda make this a very moist and delicious lemon cake," say recipe creator Phyllis.
Oreo® Cookie Cake
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Photo by Christy Cooks
Turn your favorite chocolate sandwich cookie into a multi-layered no-bake cake with a cookie crust, cream cheese layer, pudding layer, and whipped topping to finish it off.
Creamy Coconut Cake
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Photo by tbird
Everyone's going to think you worked hard on this poke cake, but it takes only 5 simple ingredients to make. Emptynest2 says, "This cake is so simple and soooo good!! I used the end of a wooden spoon to poke the holes in the cake and only used about 3/4 of the liquid. I didn't use all the coconut the recipe called for either…just enough to cover the top well."
Romanian Apple Cake
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"This was very easy to prepare," says RITKA15. "The cake looked very lumpy and I thought that there were too many apples but it made the cake very moist and tasty. Was great warm but even better the next day."
Creamy Orange Cake
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Photo by Mackenzie Schieck
CeruleanMoon says, "This cake came out moist and delicious and didn't taste like a 'cake mix' cake. I left out the orange flavoring in the frosting though and just used vanilla extract instead."
Banana Split Cake II
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Judy calls her creation an "easy no-bake sweet treat. Perfect for those hot summer months when turning the oven on is unbearable." Buzz Buzzard Jr. says you should reserve the drained pineapple juice and use it to coat the sliced bananas to prevent them from turning brown.
Make-Ahead Sour Cream Coffee Cake
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Photo by SHORECOOK
You can whip up the easy batter for this cake, pop it into the fridge overnight, and bake it in the morning. Reviewer lutzflcat says, "What a treat it was to wake up, turn on the oven, pop in this coffee cake, and then have a house smelling like cinnamon."
Pineapple Upside-Down Bundt® Cake
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Photo by Katherine V Graves
This festive cake comes together easily with the help of a few shortcut ingredients. Kim Alexander gave this a 5-star rating, saying, "Easy-to-follow recipe and the cake turned out perfect! The cake was also super moist with the added addition of the pudding. It has been years since making a Pineapple Upside-Down Cake and the first time making it in a Bundt pan, so I was a bit nervous. I made this for a work function and they loved it!"
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