Easy Anytime Snack Cakes to Bake and Share
If you love simple, cozy cakes, these anytime snack cakes are the kind to bake on a quiet afternoon, tuck into lunchboxes, serve with tea, or share with a neighbor.
They're unfussy cakes - often baked in loaf pans, square pans, round pans, or simple Bundt pans - with familiar ingredients like berries, apples, lemons, almonds, bananas, and warm spices. Some are glazed, some are dusted with powdered sugar, and others need nothing more than a cup of coffee or tea alongside.
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What Is a Snack Cake?
A snack cake is usually a simple, everyday cake - easy to make, easy to serve, and not quite as formal as a layer cake. It may be baked in a square pan, loaf pan, round cake pan, or Bundt pan, and it often has little or no frosting.
Think tender fruit cakes, yogurt cakes, coffee cakes, teacakes, loaf cakes, and simple Bundt cakes. The kind of cake you can slice for an afternoon treat, pack for a picnic, or serve after dinner without fuss.
What Makes These Anytime Cakes?
To me, an anytime cake is a cake you don't need a special occasion to bake.
It's the lemon cake you make when the sun finally comes out, the apple coffee cake that makes the kitchen smell like fall, the blueberry cake that belongs on a summer table, or the chocolate picnic cake that feels right for potlucks, lunchboxes, and Father's Day weekends alike.
Some of these cakes are bright and fruity, others are cozy and spiced, and a few are rich with chocolate or coffee. But they all have one thing in common: they're easy enough for everyday baking and special enough to share.
Favorite Anytime Snack Cakes to Bake
Below you'll find easy snack cakes, loaf cakes, fruit cakes, coffee cakes, and teacakes from 31Daily - simple bakes for the moments when a slice of cake sounds just right.
1
Simple Anytime Almond Cake
This simple Almond Cake is an Almond Anytime Cake. Simple, incredibly moist, and delicious. A buttery, slightly sweet snacking cake perfect for teatime, breakfast, or midnight cravings.
Simple Anytime Almond Cake
2
Strawberry Rhubarb Cake
Strawberry Rhubarb Cake, a favorite seasonal cake recipe. A buttery batter filled with strawberries and rhubarb and flavored with vanilla and nutmeg. Delicious!
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3
Blueberry and Greek Yogurt Tea Cake
This Blueberry Yogurt Teacake is a tender, buttery cake filled with blueberries and topped with a cinnamon-nutmeg streusel. Baked in a tube pan, it's perfect for brunch, afternoon tea, or a simple weekend treat.
Blueberry and Greek Yogurt Tea Cake
4
Irish Apple Crumble Cake
This Irish Apple Crumble Cake is a moist and tender, buttery cake that's packed with fresh apples and topped with a delicious crumble. And easy? Oh my, yes. Delicious? Absolutely!
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5
Ireland Tradition: A Cast Iron Irish Apple Cake
Irish Apple Cake is a traditional dessert in Ireland. Recipes for the moist and tender cast iron cake are as varied as the beautiful people who live in the Emerald Isle. This heritage recipe is a simple and tasty dessert everyone will love.
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6
Blueberry Lemon Pudding Cake
Blueberry Lemon Pudding Cake is an exceedingly delicious, simple dessert that is part pudding, part cake. It's soft, spongy, and almost addictive. Made with blueberries, lemons, and simple pantry ingredients.
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7
Anytime Berry Cake Recipe
This easy Berry Cake recipe is a red, white, and blue cake filled with summer blueberries and raspberries, hints of fresh lemon, and a buttery, tender crumb you'll fall in love with.
Anytime Berry Cake Recipe
8
Easy Berry Topped Pound Cake Recipe
Savor the simplicity and richness of homemade pound cake. This easy recipe puts a twist on the classic cake with a delicious berry topping.
Easy Berry Topped Pound Cake Recipe
9
Hummingbird Cake: An Easy Bundt Cake Recipe
Hummingbird Cake is a moist and dense cake filled with ripe bananas, pineapple, pecans, and deliciously savory spices. Tweaked slightly from the original, this cake is simplified and made even easier in a Bundt pan. And, of course, drizzled in a thick cream cheese glaze for the ultimate in flavor.
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10
Espresso Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe
This Espresso Chocolate Loaf Cake is exceptionally easy to make, incredibly moist, tender, and chocolaty. And that hint of espresso? It elevates this chocolate cake to the next level!
Espresso Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe
11
Strawberry Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze
This Strawberry Bundt Cake Recipe with Lemon Glaze is utterly delicious with fresh strawberries and lemon. A tender and moist texture from Greek yogurt make it irresistible and perfect for the season.
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12
Honey Cake Recipe
This naturally sweetened Honey Cake is an incredibly tender, melt-in-your-mouth dessert recipe you'll love. It's easy to make in a round cake pan and is irresistibly moist and delicious, making it perfect for any occasion... anytime!
Honey Cake Recipe
13
Lemon Drizzle Raspberry Yogurt Cake
Lemon Drizzle Raspberry Yogurt Cake is an easy, sweet, moist, tender cake for teatime, holidays, snacking, or even breakfast!
Lemon Drizzle Raspberry Yogurt Cake
14
Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe
This easy Lemon Drizzle Cake is a beautiful recipe, perfect for days when you're craving a decadently tender dessert with abundant lemon flavoring. Or when you're looking for a traditional tea cake you know everyone will love.
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15
Blueberry Lemon Curd Loaf Cake with Greek Yogurt
This Blueberry Cake with Lemon Curd is sweetly delicious and filled with sunshine flavors. Made with Greek yogurt and lemon curd, this loaf cake is soft and moist. A spring and summer cake you'll not soon forget.
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16
Fudgy Picnic Chocolate Cake
This Picnic Chocolate Cake is a rich, fudgy, easy one-bowl chocolate cake made with simple pantry ingredients and baked in an 8x8 pan. With chocolate chips folded into the batter, it's delicious without frosting and perfect for picnics, potlucks, BBQs, or anytime chocolate cake cravings.
Fudgy Picnic Chocolate Cake
17
A Plum Cake You'll Want to Make Time and Again
This is a Plum Cake you'll want to make time and time again. I have... and do. Beginning in September and for as long as the fresh plums show up in my market.
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18
Easy Carrot Cake Loaf
This Carrot Cake Loaf is packed with flavor and grated carrots. Warm spices make it incredibly delicious, topped generously with cream cheese frosting!
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19
Irish Tea Cake
Delight in the simplicity of Irish Tea Cake, a buttery and light treat that's nearly effortless to make. Discover its charming elegance.
Irish Tea Cake
20
Spiced Zucchini Cake
This Zucchini Cake is an easy sheet cake recipe packed with fresh zucchini and flavored with late summer, early fall spices. Moist and tender, and topped with cream cheese frosting, it's a cake with deep roots and delicious flavor.
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21
Lemon Pound Cake
This Lemon Pound Cake is velvety soft, moist, buttery, and tender. Flavored with fresh lemon zest and juice, it's an easy to make cake that's absolutely spring perfect.
Lemon Pound Cake
22
Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Cake
This Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Cake is deliciously bright, ultra-soft, and moist. Both sweet and slightly tangy, it's a delightful anytime cake. Made with yogurt, it's a bit healthier without sacrificing the lemon poppy seed flavors we love.
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23
Strawberry Ricotta Cake Recipe
This Strawberry Ricotta Cake is moist, fluffy, and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. It's an easy cake recipe with rustic Italian charm. Seriously, it will become your favorite weeknight dessert.
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24
Anytime Rhubarb Almond Cake
Anytime Rhubarb Almond Cake is an easy-to-make, moist, and tender dessert recipe perfect for springtime and rhubarb season.
Anytime Rhubarb Almond Cake
25
Sweet Tea Lemon Blueberry Yogurt Cake
Sweet Tea Lemon Blueberry Yogurt Cake is a festival of summer flavors in every bite of this soft, creamy, and buttery bundt cake. Lightly flavored with lemon, tender with Greek Yogurt, and sweet with blueberries. Traces of mint and sweet tea bring hints of delightfully unexpected flavor.
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26
Anytime Lemon Cake Recipe
Indulge in the moist and tender goodness of this homemade Lemon Cake Recipe. Easy to make with bright citrus flavors, it's the perfect treat for tea or coffee.
Anytime Lemon Cake Recipe
27
Easy Maple Banana Snack Cake
Maple Banana Snack Cake is incredibly delicious with banana and maple flavors, a hint of vanilla and cinnamon. Soft, moist and irresistible.
Easy Maple Banana Snack Cake
28
Apple Spice Visiting Cake
Apple Spice Visiting Cake is a buttery and moist fall cake with autumn spices that permeate every bite. It's a simple cake, with simple ingredients, to have ready for guests, or to bring to a favorite friend.
Apple Spice Visiting Cake
29
Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Maple Glaze
Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Maple Glaze is a healthier apple cake recipe made with yogurt and grated apple. Warm spices permeate this delicious and easy cake and an unforgettable brown sugar maple glaze is drizzled just before serving.
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30
Pear Upside Down Cake Recipe
This Pear Upside Down Cake is an incredibly moist and tender cake with amazing fall-inspired flavors of maple, cinnamon, and cardamom. It's a simple cake with a delicious flavor you'll love during pear season.
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