5 Tips on Choosing the Right Birthday Cake

Everyone deserves a homemade cake on their birthday, and nothing feels quite as special as a big, over-the-top butter and sugar confection topped with piles of lovely icing and crowned with candles.

Here are a few tips to help you when choosing the perfect birthday cake for your loved ones.

Size:

It is important to know how many people you are feeding before you order your cake. This is really your starting off point for the rest of the steps to ordering that perfect cake. Click here for our guide on selecting the right cake size.

Budget:

Cakes are not very cheap, so know how much you want to spend before you place your order. Also be aware that extra decorations such as themed fondant or toy characters can shoot the cost of the cake way up, so setting a budget is very important. Birthday cakes can cost anywhere from N5000 to over N40,000, so decide how much you are willing to spend. Click her to view our Cake prices.

Bakery:

Choose your Cake chop or Cake Artist well. A good tip is to look up online of pictures of cakes the bakery does. See our Gallery of cakes here.

Type and Flavour:

what shape of cake do you want? Round cake, square cake, a castle cake? What about the flavour? You need to choose a flavour you know most of the party goers will eat.

Cakes are available in various flavours and shapes such as chocolate cake along with chocolate icing, cream-cakes, cakes with butter cream and several others. The safest cake option is a vanilla and chocolate layer cake. You do not want to choose a flavour like a coffee bean ganache cake and have most of your cake leftover, uneaten at the end of the party.

Another important point is you simply ask your child his/her favorite flavour because surprise surprise, it is his/her birthday.

Click here to view our Cake and Cupcake flavours.

Theme of Cake:

While selecting birthday cakes for a child you must know what he/she likes, his/her hobbies and interests, or favourite cartoon character.

When it comes to theme, you need to choose it according to the party your are throwing. For instance, some kid birthday themes include favorite Disney cartoon characters, pirates, cars, princess themes and so on. So your child’s birthday cake must reflect that particular chosen theme. So how do you choose right theme? The answer to this question is simple - ask. Your child knows what he wants on his/her birthday cake.

So there you have it. Choosing the perfect birthday cake becomes less difficult once you take the party theme, favourite colours, hobbies, interests and flavour into consideration. So follow these tips to ensure your loved one’s birthday cake is one that will excite them on their big day!

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