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100 Wonderful Cake Captions for Instagram

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Enjoy this list of incredible cake captions for Instagram posts! No matter the occasion, this article has everything you need to add the perfect text to your photo.

A delicious sugar-filled dessert is a perfect way to celebrate a special occasion. Describe the moment perfectly with our awesome selection of funny cake quotes for Instagram. If you’ve taken some awesome pictures, what better way to share them than with one of our phenomenal cake sayings.

If it’s someone’s special day, we’ve got you covered with a selection of birthday cake quotes too! For the witty among you, the final section contains our favorite cake puns!

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Cake Captions for Instagram

Cake Captions for Instagram
  • Think inside the cake box.
  • Bake someone happy!
  • Cake is for life, not just for birthdays!
  • A party without cake is just a meeting.
  • It’s an emotional day. Even the cake is in tiers.
  • How do I like my eggs? In a cake, duh.
  • I eat cake because it’s somebody’s birthday somewhere.
  • My sweet tooth is tingling.
  • So what if it’s not my birthday?
  • If I was turned into cake, I would eat myself before anyone else could.
Cake Captions
  • A birthday can never have too much cake.
  • Life’s too short to say no to cake.
  • A ready-to-eat slice of heaven.
  • Crazy for cakes!
  • Cake is always a good idea.

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  • Some only dream of cake. Others bake it happen.
  • Bring on the cake!
  • Happiness is eating leftover birthday cake.
  • Forget the calories and just be happy.
  • Romance is the icing, but love is the cake.
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  • Cake never asks me dumb questions. Cake understands.
  • Put “eat cake” on top of your to-do list today and you’re sure to get at least one task done.
  • Happiness is homemade cake.
  • Without icing, it’s just bread. I don’t like bread.
  • If eating cake is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
  • Happiness is knowing there is cake in the oven.
  • There’s always room for cake.
  • Forget the fork and dig right in!
  • Happiness is knowing there‘s cake later.
  • I couldn’t find a candle holder, so I bought a cake.

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Funny Cake Captions
  • Love at first bite.
  • Tastes as good as it looks.
  • I’ll take another slice of that.
  • There’s nothing better than cake but more cake.
  • Whip it. Whip it good.
  • Come to the dark side. We have cupcakes.
  • Where there is cake, there’s hope.
  • I’m not a cake addict! I’m just a little clingy to it.
  • Chocolate cake has eggs in it, which is a perfectly good breakfast.
  • If there are no cakes in heaven, I’m not going.
Birthday Cake Captions
  • I have abs-olutely no control when it comes to cake.
  • I decorate cakes, what’s your superpower?
  • Man cannot live on bread alone, so they made cake.
  • Keep calm and eat cake.
  • I could give up cake, but I’m not a quitter.
  • Fresh out of the oven.
  • I like the concept of ‘have your cake and eat it, too.’
  • Sometimes you just need cake.
  • Count the memories—not the calories.
  • Sugarcoating everything is my specialty.

Cake Quotes for Instagram

Cake Quotes for Instagram
  • “Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” — Jo Brand
  • “Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.” — Audrey Hepburn
  • “All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‘Rocky,’ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.” — Mr. T
  • “Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided.” — Maeve Binchy
  • “Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.” – Karl Pilkington
  • “Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.” — Lady Gaga
  • “You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’” — Jerry Seinfeld
  • “For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.” — Yotam Ottolenghi
  • “My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.” — Boris Johnson
  • “Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!” ― C. JoyBell C.
Cake Quotes
  • “Cake is a very beautiful thing.” — Milly Shapiro
  •  “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.” — Helen Keller
  • “Freedom is not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.” — Amanda de Cadenet
  • “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” — Bob Hope
  • “When you look at a cupcake, you’ve got to smile.” – Anne Byrn

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  • “You can have your cake and eat it too and follow your passions, have a family, and be happy.” — Ayesha Curry
  • “The most dangerous food is wedding cake.” — James Thurber
  • “I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the days that I’m not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.” — Trisha Yearwood
  • “What makes life so sweet? Cupcakes to eat and someone to love.” – Marie Williams Johnstone
  • “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” — Elon Musk
Cake Instagram Quotes
  • “If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could.” ― Emma Donoghue
  • I’m here for the cupcakes.
  • Cake is mostly air, right?
  • Nothing in this world is better than cake but more cake.
  • I am pretty sure chocolate cake tastes as good as skinny feels. 
  • Happiness starts here.
  • A balanced diet is having a piece of cake in each hand.
  • Just another sweet moment in life.
  • Cake is my happy place.
  • I want someone who looks at me the same way I look at chocolate cake.

Cake Sayings for Instagram

Cake Sayings
  • “Let them eat cake.” — Marie Antoinette
  • Yeah, abs are great… but have you tried cake?
  • Whisking you a happy birthday.
  • If we are what we eat, then I’m awfully sweet.
  • If there’s a whisk, there’s a way.
  • I always carry a knife in my purse… in case we’re having cake. 
  • It’s a piece of cake.
  • Never say no to cake.
  • I wish I was full of chocolate cake instead of feelings.
  • Slice, slice, baby.

Cake Puns for Instagram

Cake Puns for Instagram
  • Flour power!
  • What’s up cake? Muffin much.
  • Say cheese…cake!
  • Bake it till you make it.
  •  I’m muffin without you.
  • Life is what you bake of it.
  • History in the baking.
  • This is a cake, not a pun-cake.
  • Ah, my butter half.
  • Love is a batterfield.
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Iain Salter

Founder & Editor of The Road Trip Expert

Iain founded The Road Trip Expert in 2019 and continues to manage the website to this day. The inspiration to start the blog came during an extensive road trip around Europe with two friends that spanned several months and involved over 25,000km of driving. He first developed a passion for backpacking in 2014 and has had the pleasure of exploring over 60 countries.

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