Cupcake Bouquets in Bracknell
A cupcake bouquet is 12 cupcakes from £70 — £5.83 a cake — set into a dome and piped so each swirl reads as a flower, with the holder quoted at cost. A smaller posy of 6 is from £45. Made to order in Bracknell.
It is a collection order by nature. The cupcakes are not fixed to anything but the foam they stand in, so a bouquet travels far worse than a cake in a box — the honest version of this product is one you pick up.
What does a cupcake bouquet cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
6 cupcakes — a small posy £7.50 a cake; one flavour, a dome about 6 inches across 6 cakes | £45 |
12 cupcakes — the usual bouquet £5.83 a cake; the size that reads as a bouquet rather than a plate 12 cakes | £70 |
Holder and wrapping A foam dome in a pot or a basket, bought in and charged at cost | Quoted |
6" cake instead For comparison: one cake, no arrangement, travels perfectly 8–12 slices | £100 |
Cupcake prices are the published ones from the cupcakes page; the pot and foam are charged at cost. Free collection, or delivery from £30 with the bouquet assembled on arrival.
Ask about a cupcake bouquet
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.
Which piped flowers actually look like flowers?
Three of them, and the rest are an idea that does not survive contact with buttercream. A rose piped from the centre outwards with a closed star nozzle is unmistakable. A hydrangea — forty or fifty tiny stars crowded over the whole top — is the most convincing of the three and the slowest. A chrysanthemum, piped as short strokes from the outside in with a petal tip, is the one that holds its shape longest in a warm room. Daisies, tulips and anything with a long single petal need royal icing and a drying day, and are not piped onto buttercream here.
A dome of twelve, by flower
Twelve roses — one colour, or three shades of it: the classic.
Nine hydrangeas and three roses — the fullest-looking dome.
Twelve in two colours alternating — reads as a bouquet from across a room, which is the point of the thing.
Why does a bouquet need twelve rather than six?
Because a dome needs a second row. Six cupcakes fill a single ring and sit flat, which looks like a plate of cakes arranged in a circle — accurate, but not a bouquet. Twelve gives you a ring of eight or nine around a raised middle of three or four, and that height is the whole illusion: the eye reads overlapping flowers at two levels as a bunch. Twenty-four at £140 makes a bouquet nobody can carry with one hand, which is usually a mistake.
What else works as a gift that travels?
If the thing has to go in a car for half an hour, three products do it better than a bouquet, and all of them are boxed. A bento cake is one small cake with a message on it, wedged in its own box. A gift box holds its contents in compartments. Cake by post is designed from the start to survive a courier. A bouquet is the one to choose when you are handing it over yourself — and for Mothering Sunday or a birthday at home, that is exactly what happens.
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.