Bespoke First Birthday Cake Case Study
Some first birthday cakes arrive with a full brief. Others arrive as a handful of references, a soft colour palette and the general instruction that it should feel sweet without tipping into sugar-coated chaos. This bunny and bees cake was very much the latter, and rather lovely for it.
A Gentle First Birthday Brief
The customer sent references featuring bunnies, flowers and bees. There was no existing Anges de Sucre design being adapted at that point: the cake was developed from the brief, references, required portions and overall mood. That makes the original commission bespoke under the way we now define our cake routes.
We suggested a 10 inch round cake with two layers of soft vanilla Hero Sponge, giving enough presence for the table without making the first birthday cake feel oversized.
The Bunny, Bees And Blossoms
The decoration combined hand-piped Swiss meringue buttercream blossoms in pastel pink and ivory, light dual-toned foliage, a hand-sculpted sugar-paste bunny and small sugar-paste bees. The bees were arranged to look as though they were buzzing around the cake, giving the whole thing a little movement and mischief.
From Bespoke Commission To Ready-To-Order Cake
The original cake began as a bespoke commission. The finished design worked so well that it later became our Bunny and Bees 1st Birthday Cake, which can now be ordered as an existing design.
On the current product, choosing the offered size, flavour or colour is a product option rather than customisation. A short message on the complimentary chocolate plaque is Personalisation. A name, age or date incorporated into the cake decoration is Custom work. If you want the existing Bunny and Bees design materially changed with a different theme, non-standard palette, topper or other substantive decoration, that becomes custom work.
- The original commission was bespoke because the design was created from the customer's brief rather than an existing Anges de Sucre cake.
- The current product is a ready-to-order design with normal product options.
- The plaque message is Personalisation, while names, ages, dates or other details built into the cake itself are Custom adaptations.
Planning A First Birthday Cake?
Browse our existing birthday cakes, choose custom when an existing design needs substantive changes, or explore bespoke cakes when the design needs to begin from a blank page.
Comments