Thank You Cakes in Bracknell
A thank-you cake is a cake with the right sentence on it, and the sentence costs nothing: writing is included in the price of every cake here. A 4" bento is £70 and feeds 4; 12 cupcakes are £70, which is £5.83 a cake; a 6-inch from £100 cuts 8–12. Made to order in Bracknell.
Most of these are eaten standing up in a staff room, a ward or a classroom. That one fact decides the format more than any design does.
What does a thank-you cake cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
4" bento cake For one person being thanked by one person 4 portions | £70 |
12 cupcakes £5.83 a cake — the staff-room answer 12 cakes | £70 |
24 cupcakes A whole department, or a class with the parents 24 cakes | £140 |
6" cake If there will be a moment and a knife 8–12 slices | £100 |
Printed logo on each cupcake Per cupcake | £1 |
Writing on top is included at any length. Bento and cupcake prices are fixed; the larger cakes are floors for that size. A printed logo on cupcakes is £1 a cake — see logo cakes. Delivery from £30 by distance, or free collection.
Order a thank-you cake
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 the writing the expensive-looking part and the free one?
Because on a thank-you cake the message is the present and the cake is the wrapping. Writing is included here at any length, which means the part a recipient actually reads and remembers adds nothing to the bill — and that is worth knowing, because it removes the only reason people have for writing something short and generic. “Thank you” is on every cake of this kind. A ward name, a class, a date, the thing they actually did: those are the ones that get photographed and kept.
Four thank-yous and what each one usually is
A teacher, from one family — 4" bento, £70, carried home easily.
A staff room or a ward — 12 cupcakes, £70, no knife and no plates.
A colleague leaving — 6-inch cake from £100, because there will be a moment.
From a company — cupcakes with a printed logo at £1 each; see corporate cakes.
Why do cupcakes beat a cake in a staff room?
Because of the knife. A cake arriving in a room where people come and go in five-minute gaps needs somebody to cut it, something to cut it on, plates, forks and a first person willing to spoil the icing — and the usual result is a cake admired at eleven and still whole at three. 12 cupcakes at £70 need none of that: one is picked up, the box closes again, and the last person at five o’clock gets one that still looks like the first. An 8-inch cake at £130 cuts 14–18 slices and is the better buy only where somebody has planned a moment for it — a leaving speech, a last day, a photograph.
What else is ordered for the same reason?
A fresh start of one kind or another, and the cakes are nearly identical: one small cake, one line, ordered on 3–5 days’ notice by somebody who thought of it late. A new home, a retirement or a graduation on the leaving page, or the plain version on celebration cakes. If the words are the hard part, what to write on a cake is the page to read first.
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.