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15+ Easy Sheet Cake Recipes

Updated April 10, 2020
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Tahini-Blueberry Sheet Cake With Strawberry Buttercream image
Credit: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Kashara Johnson; Food Styling: Pam Lolley

That trusted 13- x 9-inch pan is good for more than just brownies and casseroles. Break it in with these easy sheet cake recipes that are perfect for a special occasion. Skip the hassle of a layer cake, and opt for a simple icing or glaze to top off your cake. From red velvet to strawberry to coconut, there's no shortage of options for your next sheet cake.

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Chocolate Fudge Sheet Cake With Chocolate-Cream Cheese Frosting

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Credit: Aaron Kirk; Prop Styling: Kashara Johnson; Food Styling: Pam Lolley

Chocolate Fudge Sheet Cake With Chocolate-Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

The addition of cinnamon adds a kick of “something special” to this rich chocolate sheet cake, but if you prefer, you can reduce the amount or leave the cinnamon out all together; you will simply have a delightful, classic chocolate cake on your hands. Once topped off with a decadent chocolate-cream cheese frosting, this cake is ready to please at virtually any event you bring it to.

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Shortcut Carrot Sheet Cake

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Credit: Kelsey Hansen; Food Styling: Karen Rankin; Prop Styling: Audrey Davis

Shortcut Carrot Sheet Cake Recipe

This moist, delicious carrot cake has traditional ingredients like carrot, pineapple, and walnuts, with the addition of toasted coconut flakes to dress up cream cheese icing. The ease of assembly is the kicker here: a box mix enhanced with fresh ingredients comes together in minutes and is sure to impress guests. 

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Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake

Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake
Credit: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Caroline M. Cunningham

Strawberries-and-Cream Sheet Cake Recipe

Trust us: This simple and swoon-worthy sheet cake will be a keeper in your recipe box. File it under "Springtime Crowd-pleaser."

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Derby Cake

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Credit: Daniel Agee; Styling: Karen Rankin

Derby Cake Recipe

This decadent chocolate sheet cake is a prime choice for a Kentucky Derby viewing party—or any party, for that matter. The richness of this moist, buttermilk chocolate cake is intensified by utilizing the molasses notes of brown sugar (in addition to granulated sugar) and adding a generous sprinkling of chocolate chips in the batter. And then, you top the cake with an insanely delicious bourbon buttercream, candied walnuts, and a chocolate drizzle. Yeah, it's some kind of wonderful. 

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Buttermilk-Glazed Cherry Sheet Cake

Buttermilk-Glazed Cherry Sheet Cake
Credit: Alison Miksch; Styling: Marian Cooper Cairns

Buttermilk-Glazed Cherry Sheet Cake Recipe

If you're ready to step up your brunch game, this beautiful cake will definitely do the trick. Serve with lots (and lots) of coffee. 

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Chocolate Marble Sheet Cake

Chocolate Marble Sheet Cake
Credit: Jennifer Davick; Styling: Mindi Shapiro Levine

Chocolate Marble Sheet Cake Recipe

Swirl chocolate and yellow cake batter together in this marble sheetcake recipe and top with a rich mocha frosting.

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Grapefruit-Pecan Sheet Cake

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Credit: Hector Sanchez; Styling: Heather Chadduck Hillegas

Grapefruit-Pecan Sheet Cake Recipe

Nothing says easy entertaining quite like serving a classic sheet cake. We love this citrus riff on the Southern standy of Grapefruit-Pecan Sheet Cake.

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Better Than Sex Cake

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Better Than Sex Cake Recipe

Chocolate, caramel, and Heath candy take chocolate cake to a whole new level.

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1-2-3-4 Cake 

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Credit: Photographer: Gina DeSimone; Prop stylist: Kashara Johnson; Food Stylist: Briana Riddock

1-2-3-4 Cake  Recipe

Time to oust your box cake mix, and embrace your inner baker with this basic yellow cake formula. This easy recipe will raise your cake-crafting confidence to new heights the first time you try it. As the name suggests, the numbers represent the measurements of the ingredients in the cake. Just remember what number matches with which ingredient, and you can easily memorize this recipe to whip up anytime you please. The buttery yellow cake is moist and has a perfectly dense crumb. Consider the 1-2-3-4 Cake a blank canvas; have fun adding layers of your buttercream frosting, whipped cream with fruit, or your own favorite frosting. One key to keep in mind when making this cake is that you really do need to have your butter softened and, ideally, your eggs at room temperature. Mixing these ingredients in when cold makes them more difficult to incorporate and can yield a “broken” batter. When baking the cake, be sure to use a light baking pan to help prevent over-browning. If you see that the top of your cake is brown, but the center is still wet, make a foil tent over the cake to keep it from getting darker. 

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Texas Sheet Cake

Texas Sheet Cake
Credit: Julie Bidwell; Styling: Stephanie Hanes

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Mississippi Mud Cake

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Mississippi Mud Cake Recipe

This must be baked in two 9-inch square pans that are at least 2 inches deep.

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Texas Sheet Cake with Fudge Icing

Texas Sheet Cake with Fudge Icing
Credit: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Kay Clark

Texas Sheet Cake with Fudge Icing Recipe

Somehow, Texas claimed the sheet cake as its own in the mid-20th century, perhaps because of the pecans, an ingredient that grows in abundance throughout the Lone Star State. The defining element is its shape--and, of course, the icing, which has to be heated and poured on the warm, just-out-of-the-oven cake. The result is a rich, chocolaty treat that's iconic in Texas.

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Sheet Pan Cookie Cake

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Sheet Pan Cookie Cake Recipe

This homemade cookie cake is so easy to make and way cheaper than buying one already made. The perfect solution for anyone who doesn’t like actual cake, this sheet pan dessert tastes like a big, perfectly chewy-on-the-inside, crispy-on-the-outside chocolate chip cookie. Feel free to get creative with other mix-ins like white chocolate chips or nuts. We found that this cookie cake cut perfectly into 20 sizable pieces, but you could also cut it into smaller bars if using for a bakesale or serving to a larger party. 

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Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake

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Fresh Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe

This simple, fresh strawberry cake is the perfect springtime dessert. Besides being wonderfully easy to slice and serve for a crowd, sheet cakes (like this pink beauty) are great for entertaining because they require no special cake frosting skills to look impressive. 

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Parsnip Spice Cake with Caramel Icing

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Parsnip Spice Cake with Caramel Icing Recipe

We took a look at this old favorite and decided it was time to update it with less sugar, more whole grains, and more flavor. Instead of boiling the parsnips, we roast them to concentrate their sweetness; this allows us to use less added sugar. We also switched from refined all-purpose flour to whole-wheat pastry flour, and simplified the format to a sheet cake. It’s moist, tender, lightly spiced, and capped with an indulgent caramel-flavored cream cheese icing.

Parsnip Spice Cake with Caramel Icing

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This recipe originally appeared on Cookinglight.com.

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One-Pot Chocolate Cake

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One-Pot Chocolate Cake Recipe

This delicious chocolate cake from our friend Joy the Baker comes together in one sauce pan, so you can enjoy the rich flavor and whipped topping without the worry of cleaning too many dishes afterwards!

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Fudge Cake

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Credit: Alison Miksch; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Anna Hampton

Fudge Cake Recipe

When my mother talks about this fudgy dessert, her eyes glaze over. The cake was sold at the Lowry Motor Court restaurant in Greenville, Mississippi. Mama said they displayed it by the register under a glass dome, and each perfectly square slice was neatly wrapped in wax paper.

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Graveyard Cake

Graveyard Cake
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Graveyard Cake Recipe

Halloween desserts definitely call for having a little extra fun in the kitchen. This kinda-cute, kinda-creepy Graveyard Cake is easy to make, fun to decorate (so recruit the kids’ help), and is sure to be a perfectly spooky centerpiece for any Halloween dessert table. Black icing transforms store-bought cookies into perfectly-sized miniature headstones for the chocolate-frosted graveyard cake. And once you’ve placed your headstones, crumble chocolate wafer cookies around each to create “dirt.” Just be sure to make each "gravesite" the serving size you want to ensure easy slicing. Disperse a few candle “lanterns” throughout the chocolaty graveyard and you have the perfect cake for a Halloween birthday party. The classic chocolate cake recipe here is decadent and moist standby, but if you’re in a pinch for time, feel free to use your favorite boxed cake mix instead. Obviously, it’s all about the decorating on for this Halloween-inspired treat. 

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Tahini-Blueberry Sheet Cake With Strawberry Buttercream

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Tahini-Blueberry Sheet Cake With Strawberry Buttercream Recipe

Perfect for a graduation party or summer cookout, this impressive dessert offers the ease and crowd-friendly factor that we associate with a sheet cake, as well as a delightful twist of creativity and surprising vibrancy with the incorporation of tahini and fresh berries. If you have a jar of the trendy sesame seed paste hanging out in your pantry, trust us—it’s high time to go beyond hummus and welcome it into your dessert life. Tahini lends a delicious toasty quality to the tender cake while fresh blueberries dotted throughout the batter balance this nutty depth with their bright, juicy sweetness. A simple strawberry buttercream ties everything together and makes for a low-effort, eye-catching presentation. 

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