* Personalised Birthday Cake - How much? *

CharleneUK

Hi all. My daughters birthday is coming up (4th August) and I want a cake for her. Nothing too snazzy, but I want her name on it.

My mum said it would be cheaper to buy a plain cake and have someone do the icing.

How much does having a name put on a cake cost, approximately?

alanalea

Tesco's and my local Sainsbury's will put a photo and some wording on a good sized cake (jam sponge) for £4.99. We've done a few for friends and we did one for our daughters second birthday.

Your photo will need to be bigger than a passport sized and quite light- but the cakes really do come out nice.

LilMissEmmylou

oh the tesco cake is nice i had it at a friends. Also if its just the name you want, you could buy one of those pipes and pipe the name on yourself?

CharleneUK

Wow!! That's fantastic! I know just the picture Sounds like a plan.

Thank you both

eira

My kids used to chose a 'theme ' for their birthday cake and this was their personal cake. You get a basic sponge and then dress it up with roll on icing/icing 'writing pens'/ ornaments from specialist cake shops/ sweets of various shapes and sizes. You do sometimes have to buy shop bought Swiss rolls to add to the shape or buy special cake tins. Worked a treat-years later they still remember the cakes. Not the tidiest cakes in the world but the kids at the party always looked thrilled-although some of the parents looked askance at the edifices

Janepig

CharleneUK wrote: »

Wow!! That's fantastic! I know just the picture Sounds like a plan.

Thank you both

Just beware that the numpty doing the cake doesn't cut any heads off with the border around the photo like they did on the one I got from Asda. Lovely cake otherwise - just headless!!!!!

Jxx

servecold

are you or do you know anyone who is a member of a firm called costcothey do a cake for 10 pound its about 25inchs x 15inchs an 4inchs deepive not found better value anywhere else they will put her name on as well

shopaholic1373

have you tried thorntons(the toffee shop)
i used to work for them and if you ask nicely the will ice the cake for you (free)
we were asked all the time as all staff are trainned to ice names etc
hope this helps.

CharleneUK

We went with the Sainsbury's cake (which is now £8.99) it's a4 size and my daughter was ecstatic! It looked fantastic! Will post a pic a bit later

She did say she wanted Cinderella next year though! LOL.

ukbandit

second the costco comment. you do need to be a member though, which costs, but as a member, i think its worth it for the various Bargains.

Christmasshopper

Janepig wrote: »

Just beware that the numpty doing the cake doesn't cut any heads off with the border around the photo like they did on the one I got from Asda. Lovely cake otherwise - just headless!!!!!

Jxx

It must have been the same numpty who did mine. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

However, when I went to customer service they were very helpful and re-did it with heads on.
:T :T :T