Wish somebody special a happy ... yellow cake layered with butterscotch-tinged coconut-pecan filling and iced with buttered chocolate ganache. Sunny lemon cake is a great birthday option ...

This is a really easy birthday cake for kids of all ages. Dan Lepard shows you how to make it in a step-by-step video. For the cake, line the base of a deep 20cm/9in cake tin with non-stick paper ...

The success of this cake is in the bananas — they must be ripe, over-ripe even, to ensure the cake is moist — and in the rich, buttery chocolate icing, lots of it.

An image shared on the actress' Instagram Stories showed a cake with what appeared to be chocolate icing on it and the words, "Happy Birthday ... "Sorry" played in the background.