Cake by Courtney 4th Annual CAKE MARCH MADNESS

March 13, 2025

You know my love of cake runs deep, but did you also know my love of basketball does too? Three years ago I decided to pair the two together and create a Cake March Madness Bracket.

I’m excited to see how it goes this year!

How to Play

  • Download the bracket below.
  • Look through each division and pick a winner from each pairing. You’ll then move those winners to the next round and pick a winner from that pairing. Keep going until you have a champion.
  • You’ll fill out the entire bracket – GUESSING which cake will win each pairing and which cake you think will win overall. (The winner of each matchup is decided by voting in my Instagram stories – so you’re guessing which cake most people will vote for).
  • Once you make your guess for the winning cake, COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR WINNER. This gives us a time stamp to make sure you entered before the competition starts on March 18th – which means we won’t count entries posted after March 18th 12 am MST.

How It Works

  • Starting next week (March 18th), I’ll post the cake pairings in my Instagram stories for everyone to vote on.
  • Winning cakes will be chosen from that voting process (BY YOU) and I’ll announce in IG stories and here on the blog the updates so you can make sure to check out how you’re doing on your bracket.
  • Once we get to the final winner, I’ll take a look at your guesses below and from those who guessed correctly, I’ll RANDOMLY SELECT ONE WINNER.

What Does the Winner Get?

  • The randomly selected winner will receive BOTH of my cookbooks, access to my 3-Month Cake Camp, a cake tee, and a set of my icing spatulas from Shop.CakebyCourtney.com.

Reminder:

  • Print the bracket
  • Make your selections
  • Comment below with what you cake you think will be the overall winner BEFORE MARCH 18th.
  • Check out stories next week to start the voting process
  • Have fun!

ROUND 1 WINNERS

West: Better Than Anything Cake, Creme Brulee Cake, Confetti Cake, Classic Chocolate Cake, Biscoff Brownie Cake, Magnolia Cookie Cake, Peanut Butter Poke Cake, Cookies and Cream Cake

East: Ultimate S’mores Cake, Lemon Bar Cake, Twix Cake, Red Velvet Poke Cake, White Chocolate Raspberry Brownie Cake, Tom Cruise Coconut Bundt Cake, Seven Layer Bar Cake, Peanut Butter Oreo Cake

South: Tonight Show Cake, Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream, Pumpkin Biscoff Cake, German Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Toffee Graham Cake, Brownie Biscoff Cheesecake Cake, Lemon Blueberry Cake, Biscoff Cake

Midwest: Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake, Westin’s Light Show Cake, Triple Chocolate Banana Cake, Peach Biscoff Cake, Samoa Cake, Red Velvet Cookie Cake, Peanut Butter Graham Cake, Lemon Oreo Cake

ROUND 2 WINNERS

West: Better Than Anything Cake, Chocolate Cake, Biscoff Brownie Cake, Cookies and Cream Cake

East: Ultimate S’mores Cake, Twix Cake, White Chocolate Raspberry Brownie Cake, Seven Layer Bar Cake

South: Chocolate Peanut Butter, German Chocolate, Biscoff Brownie Cheesecake, Lemon Blueberry

Midwest: Westin’s Light Show, Triple Chocolate Banana, Chocolate Coconut Caramel (Samoa), Lemon Oreo

Join the Conversation

  1. Linda Pearce says:

    Westin’s Light Show Cake

  2. Brooke Winter says:

    Tonight show!

  3. Westin’s Light Show Cake!
    (Better Than Anything Cake as runner up)

  4. Madelyn McCracken says:

    German Chocolate!

  5. Jen Bionde says:

    Westin’s Light Show Cake

  6. Katie Lassig says:

    Better than anything cake !

  7. Mindy Godell says:

    Better Thank Anything Cake

  8. Sarah Pratt says:

    Peach Crisp Cake

  9. Kari Sechrist says:

    Better than anything cake

  10. Peanut Butter S’mores!

  11. Tonight Show Cake

  12. Creme Brulee

  13. Lemon KitKat

  14. Peanut Butter S’mores Cake

  15. Taylor Hollis says:

    Twix Oreo

  16. Kevin Lopes says:

    Better than Anything cake

  17. Kylie Kimbal says:

    Better Than Anything Cake

  18. Tonight Show Cake

  19. Samoa

  20. Jennifer Kelly says:

    My whole family loves this!
    My choice is peanut butter S’mores cake
    My husband – Banana cream cake
    Son #1 Samoa Cake
    Son #2 Coconut Key lime pie cake
    Daughter- Ultimate S’mores cake

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