Vegan & Gluten-Free Cupcakes: We Do Not Make Them
There are no vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free or nut-free cupcakes here. Every cupcake is made with wheat, egg and dairy, at £6 each in boxes of 6, 12, 24.
The one free-from thing this kitchen makes is a 8-inch cake set on a set mousse made from cashews — £120, no egg, no dairy, and cashews throughout. It is a cake, not a cupcake, and the difference is explained below rather than apologised for.
What is actually available?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
8" cake, no egg and no dairy A set mousse made from cashews — contains cashews one size only | £120 |
12 ordinary cupcakes £6 each — wheat, egg and dairy in every one 12 people | £72 |
The vegan page has that cake’s flavours and ingredients, eggless cakes answers the vegetarian version of the question, and the cupcake page has the ordinary boxes.
Tell us what you need
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.
Why is a free-from cupcake harder than a free-from cake?
Because a cupcake is a tray. One flavour of cupcake is one batch of batter baked in one tin, which is why the minimum here is 6 of a flavour — half a dozen is the smallest amount that can be made without throwing most of a batch away. A free-from version is not a variation on that batch; it is a second batch with its own flour, its own binding, its own tins and its own cleaned-down surfaces.
A cake absorbs that cost better. One eight-inch vegan cake is one object, made as its own thing, and it feeds a table — which is why the free-from product that exists here is a cake and the one that does not is a cupcake. The table below is the honest version of what each request runs into.
| You are asking for | The answer | What stops it |
|---|---|---|
| Vegan cupcakes | No | The free-from recipe here is a set mousse, not a sponge |
| Gluten-free cupcakes | No | Wheat flour in the air of a single home kitchen |
| Dairy-free cupcakes | No | Butter is the cream; there is no substitute batch |
| Nut-free cupcakes | Recipe yes, kitchen no | Nuts are handled here weekly |
| A cake with no egg or dairy | Yes, one | £120, one size, contains cashews |
What should you do instead?
If it is one guest at a party, buy their cake separately from somewhere that specialises. A dedicated free-from bakery with its own kitchen can do in an afternoon what a mixed kitchen cannot do safely at all, and a box of their cupcakes beside our cake is a better party than a compromise from either of us. We would rather say that than take the order.
If the whole party is free-from, we are the wrong bakery and the honest version of that is a single sentence rather than a quotation. And if it is a diagnosed allergy rather than a diet, read the allergens page first: Our kitchen handles all major allergens (celery, gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, tree nuts). While we take every care, products may contain traces of allergens.
Which free-from questions does this kitchen answer yes to?
One, properly: a cake with no animal product in it at all. That covers a vegan diet and a vegetarian household avoiding egg, in 3 flavours, at one size and one price. It contains cashews, so it is no use to anybody avoiding nuts, and it is made in a kitchen that handles all fourteen named allergens.
The four free-from pages each give their own answer rather than a general one: gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free and sugar-free.
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.