Planning Something Special for Mom This Mother's Day? Try One of These 6 Amazing Recipes That Show You How to Make Cake for Mother's Day (2019)

Here are the cake flavors you can use:

• Vanilla cake
• Chocolate cake
• Strawberry cake
• Banana cake
• Lemon cake
• Red velvet cake

Here are the frosting flavors that you can use:

• Peanut butter frosting
• Vanilla buttercream
• Chocolate buttercream
• Lemon buttercream
• Strawberry buttercream
• Blackberry cream cheese frosting

Here are the finishing items you will require:

• Straight spatula/ offset spatula: These spatulas are used for spreading the frost onto a cake or pushing batter into even layers in a pan.
• Bench scraper: You need the bench scraper to run around the sides of the cake to smooth out the frosting.
• Cake smoothers and fondant smoothers: These tools are essential if you want to your cake to have a beautiful finishing.
• Piping Nozzles and Icing bags: The nozzles make it easy to write and create swirls on the cake made.

Ingredients for the cake

• 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sour cream (4 ounces)
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Ingredienst for the glaze

• 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Steps to make the Chocolate Bundt Cake:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and butter a bandt pan
• Mix the ingredients for the cake. Begin with the flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. Next mix the butter and sugar, and whisk until the color of the mixture is pale. To the mixture, add eggs and whisk for a while and then add vanilla. Finally, add the flour and milk mixture. Then knead the dough/batter.
• Turn the batter into the already buttered pan and put into the oven. Keep checking with a toothpick to ensure it is properly baked. Bring the cake out and allow it to cool.
• Place the cream in a heat proof plate and put in the microwave, once it’s heated up, bring it out and allow it to simmer before pouring over the chocolate. After a few minutes, add the butter and mix, ensure the mixture is slightly thick.
• Pour the glaze over the cake.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Steps to make the Lemony Yogurt Cake:

• Pre-heat the oven and butter the square cake pan or any pan of your choice.
• Mix the dry ingredients (Flour, baking soda and salt) in a bowl and in another bowl mix other ingredients (butter and sugar), beat the mixture until the colour looks almst whitish, then add the yoghurt first before adding the eggs, vanilla extract, the lemon zest and the lemon juice.
• dd up all the ingredients and mix until smooth, then pour the batter into the buttered pan and bake for over 30 minutes.
• Once the cake is properly baked and the tooth pick inserted comes out clean, bring out the cake and allow it to cool before serving.

Ingredients:

• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 pound strawberries, hulled and halved

Steps to make the Strawberry Cake:

• Butter the pan to be used for baking and pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees
• Mix the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl while you mix butter and sugar in the other bowl. Once the mixture of the butter and sugar is certified fluffy and almost whitish in color, add the egg, milk and vanilla. Next, mix the dry and wet ingredients together to a finely mixed batter
• Pour the batter into the pan and arrange strawberries above the batter, then sprinkle some sugar on the strawberries and allow the cake to bake.
• Take out the cake from the oven, freeze it and serve.

Ingredients for the cake:

• 2 1/2 cups of cake flour
• 1/4 cups of unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 oz. grated bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup Buttermilk
• 1 bottle of red food coloring
• 2 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cups unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 large eggs

Ingredients for the frosting:

• 4 oz. white chocolate
• 1/4 cups heavy cream
• 2 package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups shredded coconut

Steps to make the Red Velvet Snowball Cake:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and butter the pan.
• Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and the grated chocolate together. Then mix the buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and food coloring in another bowl.
• Beat the mixture of the sugar and butter, add eggs and then add flour mixture and mix till it blends. Pour the batter in the buttered pan and allow it to bake. Once the cake turns golden brown, remove the cake and allow it to cool.
• Next make the frosting by mixing the chocolate and cream together, then microwave the mixture for 20 seconds, remove and allow it to cool. Next mix butter, cream cheese and vanilla until fluffy, then add the cream chocolate mixture and some sugar.
• Cut the cake horizontally gently to make 3 or four layers as you wish. Separate each layer and spread the frosting on the cake and on the sides also.
• Sprinkle the shredded coconut on the cake and refrigerate for forty minutes to one hour.
• Enjoy the delicious Red Velvet Snowball Cake with your mother.

Ingredients:

• 180g brown rice flour
• 100g unrefined granulated sugar of choice
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 160ml mild olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 3 ripe bananas - mashed + 1 extra for chopped topping
• 50-100g 70% dark chocolate chips or pecans

Steps to make the Banana Chocolate Chip Cake:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and butter the pan.
• Mash the bananas.
• Mix the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl and then proceed to mix the olive oil, eggs and vanilla in a different bowl before adding the mashed bananas and the chocolate chips.
• Pour the batter into the buttered pan and allow the cake to bake for 40-45 minutes.
• After the cake is baked, allow it to cool and refrigerate it.

Ingredients:

• 225g butter
• 225g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 225g self-raising flour
• 3 tablespoon milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoon cocoa powder

Steps to make the Chocolate marble cake:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees and butter the pan.
• In a cup, mix milk with the vanilla while you mix the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
• Beat the butter until it is light and creamy, add sugar, and beat the sugar until the mixture is fluffy, beat in the eggs and then add the dry ingredients to the mixture.
• Divide the mixture into 2 bowls, pour first batter into the pan and then mix second batter with the melted bittersweet chocolate and squirt the chocolate batter over the pan. Tap beneath the pan to ensure there are no bubbles.
• Using a skewer, swirl the mixture to create the marble effect then put the pan into the oven and allow it to bake.
• Once baked, refrigerate and then serve.