Looking for Mother’s Day cake ideas? Want the best cupcakes to treat your mum? Check out our recipes below to impress.
Serve your Mother’s Day cake on one of these show-stopping cake stands, or treat mum to breakfast in bed with our easy brunch recipes.
Ingredients
- we use chocolate, lemon and other seasonal ingredients in our cake recipes
The best victoria sponge
Keep it simple and treat mum to a classic jam and cream victoria sponge sandwich that is lighter than air.

Hummingbird cake
Pineapple and banana meets heady spices in this glorious American cake recipe, sandwiched together with a cream cheese buttercream.

Coffee, chocolate and walnut cake
Can't decide whether to make mum a chocolate or coffee cake? We've made it easy and combined them both into one fanastic bake. The combination of coffee and walnut is a classic but the addition of chocolate adds another layer of flavour to this beautiful cake, ready in just one hour.

Gin and tonic cake
This double lemon, gin and tonic cake combines two of our favourite things. It's easy to make and sure to please mum – a new way to enjoy g&t.

Carrot cake cheesecake
Celebrate Mother's Day in style with this perfect combination – classic carrot cake meets a creamy indulgent cheesecake. Packed with plenty of spice, the zest of an orange and crunchy pecans, this recipe is sure to impress.

Red velvet cake
Brighten your chocolate cake with a deep red tinge in this classic American cake recipe, covered in silky-smooth cheese frosting for extra indulgence on Mother's Day.

Lemon curd layer cake
A showstopping, lemony sponge cake with a delicious lemon curd icing and topped with beautiful edible crystallised violets and primroses, the best way to impress mum.

Banoffee cake
A show-off way to celebrate Mother's Day! We've taken a popular banana cake and given it a banoffee pie make-over. Our cake is packed with bananas, covered in creamy caramel buttercream and topped with caramelised bananas for extra indulgence.

Jamaican ginger and caramel cake
Does your mum love a boozy bake? This layer cake is a real showstopper and makes for the perfect Mother's Day celebration cake. We've taken it to the next level with rum and drizzled it with caramel and sandwiched it with caramel buttercream.

Courgette and coconut layer cake
Why not change things up and impress mum with our magnificent courgette cake? This super moist and moriesh layer cake is packed with fluffy cream cheese icing and topped with crunchy coconut chips, a modern take on the British classic carrot cake.

Clementine layer cake
Show mum you love her and take this classic victoria sponge up a notch – instead of jam and cream it is layered with a homemade clementine curd (you can use shop-bought if you prefer) and a champagne-spiked cream.

Rhubarb and ginger upside-down cake
A pink patchwork cake, flavoured with sweet forced rhubarb, two types of ginger, and white chocolate. Delicious served with thick clotted cream, what a way to celebrate Mother's Day!
