36 Spectacular Spelt Cake Recipes
These 36 spectacular spelt cake recipes show off just how adaptable and exciting spelt flour can be. Whether you’re after something light and airy, deep and fudgy, bright with citrus, bursting with berries, or a little unexpected, there’s a cake here with your name on it.
Get ready to bake your way through the ultimate spelt flour cake collection. Go on, feast your eyes!
Lighter Cakes
Chocolate Cakes
One layer chocolate Malteser fudge cake
Citrus & Berry Cakes
Blackberry and white chocolate poke cake
Lime and blackberry Swedish mud cake
Blueberry & white chocolate mud cake
Miscellaneous
Brown sugar layered carrot cake
This spelt apple streusel cake uses buttermilk to produce a fluffy cake. It has less sugar and butter making it a lighter alternative.
Get the recipe: Apple Streusel Cake
This gloriously soft, more-ish and surprisingly light apple and ginger cake is studded with apples, flavored with fragrant spices, and drizzled with coconut sugar caramel.
Get the recipe: Apple & Ginger Cake
This spelt coconut chocolate cake has no refined sugar and is sweetened with banana and maple syrup.
Get the recipe: Coconut Chocolate Cake
This delicious spelt cinnamon and honey cake has a lovely honey butter drizzle infused with cinnamon. The cake is very low in fat and has no refined sugar.
Get the recipe: Cinnamon and Honey Cake
This fresh pineapple spelt cake is lower in fat and sugar. The soft sponge has poppy seeds, natural sweetness, and a pineapple glaze.
Get the recipe: Pineapple Cake
Small, fudgy, delicious. Perfect for a select gathering or the perfect cake for two.
Get the recipe: 6-inch Chocolate Fudge Cake
This chocolate fudge cake is to die for. Simple, quick and deliriously fudgy, this cake has it all!
Get the recipe: Chocolate Fudge Cake
This spelt chocolate fudge cake has Maltesers not only in the cake, but in the chocolate fudge frosting, too.
Get the recipe: One Layer Chocolate Malteser Fudge Cake
Sockerkaka is one of Sweden’s favourite cakes and this chocolate sockerkaka (sugar cake) is a wonderful example.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Sockerkaka
This espresso chocolate layer cake is light and moist and finished off with mascarpone frosting.
Get the recipe: Almost Tiramisu Cake
This dense, soft one layer white chocolate mud cake is made with spelt flour. It has a simple white chocolate ganache (made without cream).
Get the recipe: White Chocolate Mud Cake
This Nutella brownie cake is glued together with soft, rich Nutella cream cheese frosting.
Get the recipe: Nutella Brownie Cake
This chocolate fudge kladdkaka (Swedish sticky cake) is a rich dark chocolate cake with irresistible fudgy topping.
Get the recipe: Swedish Kladdkaka
This strawberry swirl spelt pound cake is topped with a sweet fresh strawberry glaze. It’s dense yet soft and delicious.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake
This spelt airfryer lemon cake was surprisingly good. Light, soft sponge with a hint of lemon. Simple and delicious.
Get the recipe: Airfryer Lemon Cake
This vibrant summer berry drizzle loaf cake is made from scratch. Soft, rich pound cake with a luscious mixed berry sauce drizzled over the top.
Get the recipe: Berry Drizzle Loaf Cake
This white chocolate poke cake has a fluffy sponge filled with fresh blackberry sauce. It is finished off with blackberry and white chocolate frosting.
Get the recipe: Blackberry & White Chocolate Poke Cake
This spelt flour elderflower and lime drizzle cake is quick and easy to make. Soft sponge with homemade elderflower cordial and lime drizzle.
Get the recipe: Elderflower & Lime Drizzle Cake
This lemon traybake is so quick and simple to make. The sponge is soft, and topped with lemon icing.
Get the recipe: Lemon Traybake
This lemon cake with a blackberry icing is simple, quick and utterly delicious.
Get the recipe: Lemon & Blackberry Cake
This orange drizzle loaf cake is surprisingly soft and moist. There’s also less fat and sugar than regular cakes, too!
Get the recipe: Orange Drizzle Cake
This clementine polenta cake is a take on the traditional Italian dessert. With a light fluffy sponge and hint of clementine, it’s delicious.
Get the recipe: Clementine Polenta Cake
This lime and blackberry Swedish mud cake is all you could ever wish from a cake. Foolproof, quick, and made using a handful of every day ingredients. Not to mention topped with an irresistible, simple fresh blackberry icing.
Get the recipe: Lime & Blackberry Swedish Mud Cake
This whole lemon and cottage cheese cake has a fluffy, tangy crumb and is easy to make. Topped off with rich icing.
Get the recipe: Cottage Cheese & Lemon Cake
This blueberry white chocolate mud cake is dense, delicious and super simple to make.
Get the recipe: Blueberry & White Chocolate Mud Cake
This soft, gently spiced glazed spelt doughnut cake is everything I love about a classic doughnut, only in cake form.
Get the recipe: Glazed Doughnut Cake
This layered brown sugar spelt carrot cake recipe takes a beloved classic to new heights with a two-layer version, perfect for any occasion.
Get the recipe: Brown Sugar Carrot Cake
This spelt Airfryer coffee cake is made with coffee and is finished off by a simple icing (glaze). Quick and easy, it has a rich coffee flavor.
Get the recipe: Airfryer Coffee Cake
This Daim layer cake has homemade butterscotch sauce in the cake and a butterscotch buttercream frosting. Nothing better than a Daim bar cake.
Get the recipe: Butterscotch & Daim Cake
This spelt Madeira cake is so simple. Topped with cream cheese frosting, its buttery richness makes it the perfect partner for a cup of afternoon tea (or coffee).
Get the recipe: Madeira Cake
This Swedish princess cake is the perfect celebration cake. A layered cake made with regular or spelt flour, with jam, cream and marzipan.
Get the recipe: Swedish Princess Cake
This cinnamon bun sockerkaka is a mash up of two of Sweden’s most delicious sweet treats. First we have the cinnamon bun (kanelbulle) and a sugar cake (sockerkaka). And what a combo it is, indeed.
Get the recipe: Cinnamon Bun Cake
This semmeltårta, also known as Swedish cardamom cream cake, is filled with homemade almond paste and whipped cream, and served before Lent.
Get the recipe: Cardamom Cream Cake
Coffee cake has to be my all-time favourite. Soft, coffee-enhanced sponge, topped (and filled) with rich frosting.
Get the recipe: Coffee & Walnut Cake
Swedish plum toscakaka is a twist on one of Scandinavia’s favourite cakes. Buttery sponge, an almond topping made with spelt or regular flour.
Get the recipe: Swedish Plum Tosca Cake
This spelt Swedish gingerbread cake, also known as mjukpepparkaka, is a favourite during the festive season.
Get the recipe: Swedish Soft Gingerbread
I hope you’ve enjoyed my 36 spectacular spelt cake recipes!
No matter the occasion—or even if there isn’t one—these spelt cakes prove that baking with spelt doesn’t mean compromising on flavour, texture, or indulgence. Save your favourites, share them with friends, and don’t forget to come back for more. Happy baking!
Oh, and if you’re new to baking with spelt, or just need a little inspiration, be sure to check out my beginner’s guide to spelt flour.
