Cake Toppers: What Goes On Top, and What It Costs
3 of the things that can go on a cake here cost nothing: a “Happy Birthday” acrylic topper, up to three candles, and sprinkles. Everything that is made specially is priced — a personalised acrylic at £20–£40, a sugar number and three words at £20, a printed sugar sheet at £20.
Writing on the cake is included as well, so a cake can arrive finished, named and candled without a single extra on the invoice. The table below is the whole list.
What does a cake topper cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
Acrylic topper, candles and sprinkles 3 of the things on this page cost nothing — they come with the cake | Included |
Number + 3 words Sugar paste, edible, made to the colours of the cake | £20 |
Personalised Topper Acrylic, cut to your wording — ordered in, so allow extra time | £20–£40 |
Edible Image Sugar Sheet Per one sheet A4 size | £20 |
These sit on top of the cake price, which starts at £100 for a 6-inch feeding 8–12 — the price page has every size. Lettering has its own pages: what to write, numbers and printed logos.
Tell us what should go on top
We reply within 24 hours with a price. No deposit is taken until you are happy with the quote.
Not ready to send it? What follows answers most of what people ask first.
How long it takes
7–10 days for a simple design, at least 14 for two tiers.
Sooner is sometimes possible: a rush adds 50% when the notice is under 7 days, if the diary is clear.
In a hurry? Bento cakes take 3–5 days.
Delivery
From £30, quoted by distance from RG12 0UY.
Collection from Bracknell is free — see the areas we cover.
Paying
50% deposit to hold your date; orders under £50 are paid in full.
Balance 3 hours before collection, or cash on the day.
The deposit is non-refundable but transferable with 4 days' notice — full terms.
What can go on top of a cake?
Ten things, four of them included, and the table below gives the price and whether each one can be eaten. Two of them are worth singling out. The sugar number with three words is the one that does the job of a bought topper and disappears into the cake instead of sitting on it. The printed sugar sheet is the only way to get a photograph or a logo onto a cake, and it needs the right surface underneath — which is a fondant question rather than a topper question.
| On the cake | What it is | Edible | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topper Happy Birthday | Free acrylic topper | No — acrylic, lifts off | Included |
| Cake candles | Simple cake candles (3 pc max) | No — lifts off | Included |
| Sprinkles | Silver, gold, white, multi colours.... | Yes | Included |
| Number + 3 words | sugar paste | Yes — sugar paste | £20 each |
| Edible sparkles | Gold or silver | Yes | £7–£15 |
| French mini macarons | Delicate almond meringue cookies with a smooth cream filling | Yes | £3 each |
| Chocolate Figurine | Elegant moulded chocolate figurine | Yes | £15 each |
| Edible Image Sugar Sheet | Per one sheet A4 size | Yes — printed sugar | £20 each |
| Personalised Topper | Personalised acrylic topper | No — acrylic, lifts off | £20–£40 |
| Crown | Gold or silver | No — lifts off | £30 each |
On cupcakes the same idea is priced per cake: mini topper £1.50 each, edible logo £1 each and gold leaf (cupcakes) £0.50 each. A box of 12 is £72 before any of them — the cupcake page has the boxes.
Which ones have to come off before the cake is cut?
Anything acrylic, the candles and the crown. They are not food, they are pushed into the cake rather than made from it, and they come out before the knife goes in — which is worth saying out loud because at a party somebody always cuts around a topper rather than lifting it. Lift it, wipe it, keep it: a personalised acrylic at £20–£40 outlives the cake by years, and that is part of what you are paying for.
The edible ones need no ceremony. A sugar number is cut and eaten with the slice it is sitting on, sprinkles go everywhere, and a printed sheet is cut straight through — which does mean a face in the middle of a photograph ends up in two halves, so ask for the print to sit off-centre if that matters to you.
Can you put fresh flowers on a cake?
Not as a default, and the reason is food safety rather than taste. Florist flowers are grown to be looked at: they are not produced to food standards, they may carry pesticide residues, and several of the commonest wedding flowers are toxic if eaten. Where fresh flowers are used in this trade they are kept out of contact with the cake — stems wrapped, bases set in a barrier — rather than pushed into the sponge.
What this kitchen does instead is berries and fruit arranged on the day, sugar flowers made to match a colour, or macarons at £3 each as the decoration itself. All three are food, all three survive the journey, and none of them has to be lifted off before the cake is served. If you have a florist and you want the colours matched, send their photograph with the order — the wedding page explains how a colour scheme is worked to.
What else do people ask?
Allergies? Our kitchen handles all 14 of the allergens UK law requires us to declare, so nothing we bake is free from any of them. What is in each cake, and our hygiene rating.