The Design Process
You have decided that you want to order a beautiful bespoke wedding cake, but how and where do you start? My simple cake design process will help you on the way to creating an amazing cake.
You can be confident that your cake vision will be brought to life exactly how you would like it. After booking your date, a good place to start would be with sampling some of my most popular flavours from the Cake Tasting Box.
The full cake menu is made up of flavour combinations that are like a big hug on a plate. They are comforting, more-ish and delicious. You can view the flavours in the cake menu below.
As part of the design process, you will also receive a digital sketch of your wedding cake that you can keep forever!
Are you ready to create the wedding cake of your dreams? Hit the button below to get in touch today!
“On the day the cake looked incredible, it was beautifully moist & had delicious flavours of chocolate and vanilla. We had lots of compliments about it afterwards.”
How to Order
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Step 1 - Get in touch + Book
Summer months are notoriously popular, so even if you do not have a venue booked or a cake design in mind, an initial quote can be sent to you based on the information you provide. You can then book your date with confidence, knowing that the date is secured with a non-refundable deposit of £100.
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Step 2 - Taste some cake
Once your date is secured with a deposit, a complimentary Cake Tasting box will be sent to you at the next postal date.
To have a look at the contents, see what’s inside your Cake Tasting Box.
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Step 3 - Design Dream Wedding Cake
A convenient date will be scheduled for your design consultation approximately 6-9 months in advance of your wedding date. We will discuss the vision for your cake in further detail and how it will all come together.
Consultations are conducted via Zoom.
Cake Flavours
Classic Vanilla
A light sponge flavoured with vanilla bean paste, filled with vanilla bean buttercream and tangy raspberry conserve.
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten)
Zesty Lemon
A delightful lemon sponge made with fresh lemons and their zest, filled with a refreshing lemon buttercream and citrusy lemon curd.
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Sulphites
Chocolate Fudge
A luxuriously rich, fudgy, chocolate sponge delicately balanced with smooth, dark Belgian chocolate buttercream filling.
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Soya
White Chocolate & Raspberry
A white chocolate sponge filled with creamy, white Belgian chocolate buttercream and raspberry conserve
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Soya
Spiced Carrot & Walnut
Moist carrot sponge packed with warm, fragrant spices and walnuts. Filled with vanilla buttercream. Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Nuts (walnut)
Salted Caramel
A salted caramel sponge, layered with vanilla buttercream and homemade salted caramel.
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten)
Red Velvet
A vibrant red sponge with a flavoursome hint of chocolate. Filled with white chocolate buttercream. Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Soya
Salted Caramel Chocolate Fudge
A fudgy, chocolate sponge filled with a layer of delicious homemade salted caramel sauce, and dark Belgian chocolate buttercream.
Contains Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten), Soya
All products are produced in an environment where nuts and other allergens are used so I cannot guarantee these won’t contain trace amounts. Additional allergen information is available upon request.
“Our cake was gorgeous and the flavour incredible. We had carrot cake and red velvet and I still dream of the taste to this day! ”
Portion Guide
How much cake you need for your wedding depends much on how you will serve it. A standard portion size is 1” x 1” x 5'“. This size is often referred to as a finger slice or coffee slice and is how your cake will be cut if you are serving guests later in the evening after the wedding breakfast.
If you would like to serve your cake as dessert for your guests, a larger portion size is more appropriate. A dessert portion is double the size of a finger slice and measures at approximately 1” x 2” x 5”. This provides a generous slice of cake that you would expect from a dessert.
The portion sizes mentioned above are fitting for most sponge cakes. However, if one of your tiers is a traditional fruit cake, this type of cake is cut into finger slices. This is because fruit cake is much more dense than a sponge cake, and so less is required to satisfy you and your guests.
The design of your cake will affect the number of portions that your cake will provide. For example, if your cake design includes a 6” double barrel tier (two tiers of cake decorated as one) it would produce double the amount of servings as a single 6” tier. Instead of serving 12 dessert portions, it would serve 24.
This portion guide shows how many servings each tier provides and will help you to reduce any wastage. It is also a helpful resource estimate how much cake you will need if you would like to keep the top tier for yourselves which is what some couples like to do.
Pricing
Wedding Cakes
Weddings are expensive no matter how extravagant or intimate it is in size. It makes sense to want to know and understand how much the services you require will cost.
For wedding cakes it is difficult to offer a single, generic price as it is not as easy as “one size fits all”. The very nature of a bespoke wedding cake means that prices will vary depending on the cake flavours, it’s size, the level of decoration and additional serves (cake stand hire, mini desserts).
This is a guide as to what you can expect when ordering a cake.
The minimum spend for a 3 tier cake (semi-iced/ ganache/ buttercream) to serve 74 dessert portions/ 148 finger slices is £650 (not including delivery & setup).
A 3 tier fondant iced cake of the same size is £695.
A couple will often spend between £700 - £900 with additional decoration such as gold leaf, sugar flowers, stencilling and other details.
Mini Desserts
In addition to your wedding cake, you can also choose from a selection of mini desserts to bring variety and interest to your cake table.
Mini desserts also make great ‘thank you’ gifts for the special people in your life, those who couldn’t make it to the wedding, or even those who were an immense source of support throughout the wedding planning.
Whichever mini dessert you choose, it can be decorated to match your main cake and the overall theme as they are very versatile. Need some inspiration for mini desserts? Click the button below for ideas.
The mini desserts I offer are:
Sugar Cookies £3 - £3.50 each - depending on design (minimum order 12)
Buttercream Cupcakes £3.50 each (minimum order 12)
Fondant iced cupcakes £4 each (minimum order 12)
Geometric Chocolate Hearts £3.50 each (minimum order 6)
Cakesicles £4 (minimum order 6)
“Bianca was lovely to work with and answered all of our questions quickly and easily. She created the cake exactly as I’d imagined and it tasted great too!”
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