Photo Cakes in Bracknell
A photograph printed in edible ink on a sugar sheet and laid onto the cake: £20 per per one sheet a4 size, on top of the price of the cake. A 6-inch with a picture on it comes to £120.
The useful half of this page is which photographs survive the process. The print is matte, flat and the size of a sheet of paper, so a close, bright picture of one face is a different proposition from a group shot taken across a garden.
What does a photo cake cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
Edible printed sheet Per per one sheet a4 size — edible ink on a sugar sheet one image | £20 |
6" cake with a photo £100 for the cake plus £20 for the print 8–12 portions | £120 |
8" cake with a photo £130 for the cake plus £20 for the print 14–18 portions | £150 |
10" cake with a photo £150 for the cake plus £20 for the print 22–28 portions | £170 |
Printed cupcakes, box of 12 £72 for the box plus £1 a cake for the print 12 people | £84 |
One print per cake at that price; a second image on the same cake is another sheet. For a business logo rather than a photograph, see logo cakes, and for the surface it has to sit on, see fondant cakes.
Send us the picture
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 pictures work, and which do not?
The print has no backlight and no contrast to spare. A screen makes a dark photograph look fine because it is emitting light; a sugar sheet is reflecting it, and everything gets about one stop flatter. So the pictures that work are the ones that would still read as a postcard, and the ones that fail are the ones you are fond of for reasons the image itself does not carry. The table below is the short version.
| Picture | Prints | Why |
|---|---|---|
| One or two faces, close up | Beautifully | Large features, plenty of contrast |
| Daylight, outdoors | Well | Even light survives the flattening |
| A group of ten or more | Poorly | Each face is a few millimetres across |
| Taken at night or indoors | Poorly | Dark areas go muddy, not black |
| A screenshot of a photograph | Badly | Already compressed once; send the original |
| Fine print or thin lettering | Badly | Thin lines break up on a sugar sheet |
One practical instruction worth more than the rest: crop the picture before you send it, to the part you actually want on the cake. A sheet is a fixed size, so whatever you send is scaled to fill it — including the half of the frame nobody was looking at.
Printed, or painted?
Printing is the right answer when the likeness matters: a photograph of a person, a card they drew, a page of a book. Painting is the right answer when the feeling matters more than the detail — artistic hand-painted watercolor design on buttercream, at +£45, which is more than the print because somebody stands at the cake for an afternoon.
The two are not interchangeable and neither is better. A painted cake cannot look like your father in nineteen seventy-four; a printed cake cannot look like a watercolour. The designs page prices every finish, and the toppers page lists everything else that can go on top.
Whose picture is it to use?
Yours, and that is the honest framing rather than a disclaimer. We print the file you send and we do not go looking for its history — so a photograph you took, or one of your own family, raises nothing at all. A film character, a club badge, a photographer’s portrait or an artist’s drawing belongs to somebody, and whether you may put it on a cake is your call to make rather than ours to assume.
The same rule runs through logo cakes, where it matters commercially, and character cakes, where it is why a cake can be in Elsa’s colours but is not a modelled Elsa. For a box of printed cupcakes instead of a cake — a logo or a face on each — the print is £1 a cake.
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.