Best birthday cake recipes

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It's my husband's birthday on Saturday. I need to make a cake. I always seem to make the same cakes on rotation: chocolate,lemon drizzle and occasionally coffee.
Does anyone have any easy, quick and delicious recipes for yummy cakes?
Very grateful.

Well the starting point should be - what does he like best?

My dh often has a chocolate Guinness cake. Hummingbird recipe I think.

Sticky toffee cake https://www.janespatisserie.com/2020/06/06/sticky-toffee-cake/

Anything. Apparently

We've made this one for the last couple of birthdays in our house and everyone's asking for the recipe. It's super easy, the ganache is amazing and you can decorate it however you want

I discovered this recipe this month and have now made it 3 times for various social gatherings! It's gone down very well with everyone who has tasted it.

https://www.sweetestmenu.com/cinnamon-apple-cake/

Check out Jane's Patisserie website - amazing cakes in lots of interesting & different flavours with different levels of difficulty.

www.janespatisserie.com/

That's so weird - that's been in my recipe notebook for quite a while and I've planned to make it again this week!

Nigella's custard sponge is fantastic! www.nigella.com/recipes/birthday-custard-sponge

The Nigella custard is indeed a good one.

My most requested is raspberry & white chocolate - standard eggs/flour/sugar/butter cake mix, Chuck in a bit of vanilla extract, bag of white chocolate chunks and a bag of defrosted frozen raspberries. (Don’t actually like it myself, too sweet for me, but it’s very popular.)

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/hummingbird-cake/

This is really tasty and much easier than it looks, especially if you don't do the brittle topping.
The cake part is great, usually use vegetable or sunflower oil (cheaper). I usually use a different cream cheese icing recipe though as I find Jamie's too sweet.

I decided to make a carrot cake. I used the BBC Good Food easy carrot cake recipe. It was delicious. I would highly recommend.