Girl’s have a love of cake like no other.
Cake is one of the most important parts of a girl’s birthday, therefore you want to make sure you pick the right flavor.
You can pick anything from a fruit flavored cake, lavender flavor, cookie dough, chocolate, or citrus flavors.
Fruit cakes tend to be lighter, whereas chocolate or creamy cakes are heavier. If you’re not sure what flavor to choose for your girl’s birthday cake, try a classic flavor like red velvet, or vanilla buttercream.
Mille Feuille Cake
Mille Feuille cake is made by baking puff pastry into sheets. The sheets are stacked in layers.
In between the layers are vanilla pastry cream.
The vanilla pastry is made by adding vanilla beans, and infusing the pod into the pastry cream.
Mille Feuille cake is topped with royal icing and melted bittersweet dark chocolate.
Mille Feuille has specific lines of chocolate that are made with a sharp knife, creating beautiful lines on the top of the cake that girl’s will love for their birthday cake!
Lemon raspberry cake
Lemon raspberry cake is made by infusing lemon juice and lemon zest into a cake recipe, and then adding a few frozen raspberries.
The cake has the raspberries throughout, giving it a beautiful look of yellow and red. The colors are vibrant when you cut the cake.
Lemon raspberry cake is coated in lemon infused cream cheese icing. Lemon raspberry cake is satisfying and light.
Cookies and cream cake
Cookies and cream cake is made by adding cocoa powder and coffee to cake.
The cake is made with buttermilk, making it extra creamy.
The cookies and cream cake is iced with a cookie Italian buttercream frosting.
Cookies and cream is a favorite flavor for girl’s birthday cakes!
Caramel chocolate cake
Caramel chocolate cake is made by creating a chocolate cake using cocoa powder.
The caramel chocolate cake is iced using a salted caramel infused icing with a touch of chocolate using cocoa powder.
The layers are assembled by adding salted caramel sauce, and salted caramel chocolate icing in between the chocolate cake.
Black forest cake
Black forest cake is made by baking a cake with cocoa powder and coffee infused into it.
The cake layers are then soaked in a cherry syrup. In between the cherry soaked chocolate layers of cake, are whipped cream and cherries.
The cake is covered in whipped cream on its exterior, and chocolate shavings are added to the sides of the cake.
Vanilla buttercream cake
Vanilla buttercream cake is made by baking a vanilla cake with buttermilk.
In between the layers are vanilla buttercream icing.
Alternatively, you could ice the cake with vanilla buttercream, and in between the layers you could make vanilla custard.
Cookie dough cake
Cookie dough cake is made by baking a cake using vanilla and Greek yogurt at its base.
The cookie dough is made using a recipe that does not have eggs in it. The cookie dough is made with mini chocolate chips, as to not be too overwhelming in the cake.
The cookies are shaped, chilled, and gently placed into the cake, and then the cake is baked.
The rest of the cookie dough is shaped again so it’s flat and chilled. This will act as the top of the cake and will be crumbled to look like mini bits of cookie dough.
In between the layers of cookie dough cake, is cookie dough frosting. Cookie dough frosting is made by adding a little bit of flour, brown sugar and mini chocolate chips.
The brown sugar gives the look of cookie dough by turning it a golden brown color.
Covering the cake on the top is chocolate ganache with the bits of cookie dough crumbled on top.
Cookie dough cakes are a huge hit for girl’s birthday parties. Kid’s love to eat cookie dough. They will devour a cookie dough cake!
White chocolate raspberry cake
White chocolate raspberry cake is made by adding chopped white chocolate to a vanilla based cake.
In between the layers is a thin smear of raspberry jam and white chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream.
Hazelnut chocolate cake
Hazelnut chocolate cake is made with cocoa powder and it uses hazelnut flour at its base.
In between the layers of cake is hazelnut spread and cocoa powder infused icing.
The hazelnut buttercream icing is coated around the cake, with the option of adding hazelnut meringues to the top as well.
S’more cake
S’more cake is made by adding allspice, cinnamon, and brown sugar to a vanilla cake base.
In between the layers of S’more cake is chocolate buttercream and homemade marshmallows.
The chocolate buttercream is made by adding melted chocolate to buttercream frosting.
On top of the two fillings is a mixture of spices and crumbled graham crackers.
The cake is topped with more homemade marshmallows and torched to give it a “fired” look to it.
Girl’s love to eat s’mores around the campfire in the summertime. S’more cake is a specialty cake you can make for a girl’s birthday that they will surely love!
Orange and cream cake
Orange and cream cake is made by adding orange zest to a buttermilk cake base.
The cake is filled with cream cheese and whipped cream filling, infused with orange juice and orange zest.
The cake is covered with orange zest flavored whipped cream.
Lavender lemon cake with white chocolate buttercream
Lavender cake is made by adding culinary lavender to a vanilla buttermilk cake base.
Lemon curd fills the layers of the cake. The white chocolate buttercream is made by adding melted vanilla chocolate to a buttercream base.
This frosting covers the lavender lemon cake, making it very flavorful and light.
Carrot cake with cream cheese icing
Carrot cake is made by adding shavings of carrots, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon to a vanilla cake base.
Carrot cake is also made with applesauce and brown sugar, giving it a caramelized carrot flavor.
Carrot cake is covered in cream cheese icing from top to bottom.
Chocolate mousse cake
Chocolate cake is made by adding instant coffee and cocoa powder to a buttermilk cake base.
The next layer is the chocolate mousse, which is made by adding gelatin to warm heavy cream and chocolate.
The gelatin helps to stabilize the chocolate mousse for using it in a cake. The chocolate mousse cake is topped with chocolate ganache to give it a rich chocolatey flavor.
Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake is made by adding cocoa powder and red food coloring to a vanilla cake base.
The cake is covered in cream cheese icing for a fluffy and rich cake flavoring.
White chocolate raspberry cake
White chocolate raspberry cake is made by baking a vanilla cake base.
The cake is filled with raspberry and lemon sugar sauce.
The cake is covered in white chocolate buttercream which is made by adding melted white chocolate to buttercream icing.
Ombre cake
An ombre cake can be a combination of icing colors or cake colored layers going from dark to light.
An ombre cake is eye catching and unique.
The colors are made by adding more or less food coloring to change the colors of the cake or icing.
Dulce de leche cake
Dulce de leche cake is made by adding caramel sauce to a vanilla cake base.
The cake slices are soaked with a combination of condensed milk and whipping cream, making the cake extra sweet.
The layers of the cake are filled with caramel flavored whipped cream.
Toasted hazelnuts are added on top of the whip cream layers to give the cake an added crunch. The cake is covered in dulce de leche whipped cream.
Coconut cream cake
Coconut cream cake is made by adding coconut emulsion and coconut milk to a vanilla cake base.
Coconut cream cake is filled and covered with coconut buttercream frosting.
The coconut buttercream icing is made by adding cream of coconut and coconut emulsion to buttercream icing.
Banana cream cake
Banana cream cake is made by adding bananas to a vanilla cake base.
Banana cream cake is filled with vanilla pastry cream.
Banana cream cake is frosted with banana buttercream icing.
Banana buttercream icing is made with banana extract to buttercream frosting.
You could add food coloring to the icing if you wanted it to have a hint of yellow in it.
The sides of the cake have crushed graham crackers, and the top of the cake has banana chips for added decoration.
Strawberry shortcake
Strawberry shortcake is made by baking biscuits or vanilla cake.
In between the layers of cake or biscuits are vanilla bean and sugar coated strawberries and whipped cream.
The whipped cream helps hold the strawberries in place, and acts as an filler instead of icing or custard.
