21 Easy Sheet Cake Recipes
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These easy sheet cake recipes are simple to make, delicious and perfect all year, but especially in the summer. From backyard BBQ to picnics, parties, and more!

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Single Layer Cake Recipes
No matter what the season, single layer cakes always have a commanding place at the table. Irresistibly delicious and perfect for all year round.
For me, it wouldn’t be summer without a Texas Sheet Cake, or honestly, any chocolate sheet cake. Chocolate cakes and summer will always and forever belong together.
I will thank my German grandmother for instilling in me a love of cakes, picnics, and all things delicious! There wasn’t a hot summer when she wasn’t planning picnics and bringing a chocolate buttercream-topped chocolate cake with chopped walnuts.
That, my friends, is a delicious summer picnic.
When you need to feed a crowd and you want an easy but delicious recipe, sheet cakes are the answer. They’re generally easy, loved by all, and easy to transport.
Easy Sheet Cake Recipes
Here are some of the best sheet cake recipes out there!
Red, White, and Blue Poke Cake Recipe
"We upgraded the traditional poke cake by replacing the traditional gelatin or pudding mix filling with two fillings made with fresh summer berries. If that’s not enough, we slathered the cake with a lusciously rich mascarpone frosting. When frosting the cake, dollop the frosting over the cake, then spread it carefully so the filling won’t bleed through."
Original Cake Pan Cake
This highly rated cake is "Dark, moist, delicious, and CHOCOLATE, this is truly a cake for all reasons, all seasons — and for bakers (and their family and friends) everywhere."
Heavenly Angel Food Cake
"This classic angel food cake is the perfect dessert base for your next party. Cut the finished cake into single-serve portions for petit-fours, frost the whole cake to make a sheet cake."
Raspberry-Buttermilk Sheet Cake
"We love this sweetly simple cake as is, sprinkled with confectioners’ sugar and cut into squares. You can also cut the cake in half crosswise, stack the halves and layer your favorite buttercream frosting between the layers. Either way, it’s an easy way to enjoy the first raspberries arriving in the market this spring."
Texas Sheet Cake
"This crowd-pleaser is moist, dense, and ultra-chocolaty. Lift it out of the pan with its parchment-paper liner, so the shiny chocolate glaze is free to drizzle down the sides."
Favorite Fudge Cake
"This old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake is incredibly moist, and can be stirred together by hand if need be. The fudge frosting is also stir-together simple, and creates a lovely thick layer on top."
No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake for a Crowd
"Whipped cream folded into this no-bake beauty's lemony ricotta-and-cream-cheese filling gives it an airy texture and ethereal taste, all of which is sandwiched between a mellow vanilla wafer crust and burst of blueberry."
Strawberry Swirl Slab Cake Gluten Free Recipe
"Looking for a gloriously BIG, LIGHT, FLUFFY, EASY, NO FUSS cake to feed a crowd at your next celebration? This is the recipe you need. There is no packaged fondant, fancy layering or intricate piping involved. This gluten free slab cake (also known as ‘sheet cake’) is so quick and easy to whip up and delivers what most kids and adults love best – a simple light and fluffy sponge smothered in a smooth buttercream frosting."
Old-Fashioned Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
"This cake is an old, old favorite of ours. It's a cake where the whole is definitely more than the sum of the parts. The moist, semi-chunky cake, spread with the frosting equivalent of brown sugar fudge, is perfect served with a cup of coffee or, better still, a glass of ice-cold milk."
Vanilla Sheet Cake with Whipped Buttercream Frosting
"This vanilla sheet cake recipe uses the reverse creaming method, an easy technique that promises a uniquely soft and springy crumb with the most delicious buttery vanilla flavor."
German Chocolate Sheet Cake
"This version of an all-time favorite is quicker, easier (no need to separate eggs), and more chocolate-y than the original."
Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
"A minister's wife gave me this recipe...and my family loves it. It's a great treat to share."
Cream Soda Confetti Sheet Cake with Strawberry-Sour Cream Buttercream
"If fun is what you’re looking for, this simple cake, enlivened with cream soda and confetti sprinkles, will make your day. Freeze-dried strawberries give the icing a naturally pink color and tangy-sweet flavor."
The Chocolate Cake That Will Change Your Weekdays Forever
A delicious chocolate cake... perfect even for a Wednesday!
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
"You'd never know there's zucchini in this ultra-moist, rich chocolate cake."
Spiced Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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.
White Texas Sheet Cake
"White Texas Sheet Cake is a light and fluffy white cake topped with a sweet, buttery frosting that is loaded with toasted walnuts."
Rhubarb Cake - A Simple Recipe I Wait for All Year
A family recipe, packed with seasonal rhubarb, that I even think about in the winter!
Caramel Praline Sheet Cake
"A moist and delicious brown sugar sheet cake with an amazing caramel frosting. The sheet cake is topped wight he most delicious sweet and crunchy pralines for a perfect bite each and every time!"