Don’t these look gorgeous?
I know I’ve written about celebration cakes before, but it’s a question that comes up a lot – where to find a gluten free (wheat free, or dairy free) wedding cake, christening cake, birthday cakes …
Yes, you can make them yourself (and there’s a fantastic recipe for a vodka and cranberry fruit cake here) but just sometimes you’ve got too much else to think about, and want to get a professional to do it for you.
And we’re not all sugar-craft experts! I’ve done my time making gluten free safari park, dinosaur, pink fairies and seahorse cakes for children’s parties, and I know just how difficult it is. No way am I going to be trying to decorate something with as much significance as a wedding cake!
This is a new venture for Pure (aff). They’re offering a “personal, friendly and professional decoration and design service” – and having spoken to Pure when ordering before, I can confirm that they are indeed very friendly and helpful.
I’d be very interested to hear from anyone who has commissioned a gluten free celebration cake, either from Pure or from someone else – how did it go? What was the cake like? Did you get what you wanted?
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tesco do a gluten free celebration cake and marks and spencers do a gorgeous chocolate and black cherry cake when you can get it
Hi Julie, and thanks for the information. Sometimes there just isn’t time to bake – or to order online – so its good to know where to find something you can find in the high street.
I recently tried Peace of Cake London (www.peaceofcakelondon.com), not only was the service excellent (they made me a birthday cake with only 24 hours notice) but most importantly the cake looked and tasted amazing. I haven’t had a wheat free/gluten free sponge cake that actually tasted spongy for so long it was an absolute pleasure!
Good to know! And they look fab too…
Thanks for sharing the link.
It’s coming up to that time of year again when I have to find a gluten free birthday cake for my Mum and a wheat free one for my husband. Every year I hope Marks and Spencers and/or Waitrose will add a gluten free sponge to their reasonably priced celebration cakes…..and they still haven’t!! Just wanted to share some great websites when I have pushed the boat out!!
http://www.need-a-cake.co.uk/index.aspx – Used these in 2007 and they made a fabulous gluten free cake for my Mum and Dad’s 30th Anniversary and for my husband’s birthday. They tasted DELICIOUS!! and delivered from Reading to Essex!
also
http://www.londoncake.com/ – made our wedding cake, complete with gluten free tier. They don’t deliver unfortunately but also make DELICIOUS cakes!!
Thanks Emma. I can see I’m going to need to develop a special page where people can enter details of good places to find gluten free celebration cakes!
Try the Right Ingredient Cake Company http://www.rightcake.co.uk based near Colchester, Essex they have received shortlistings
from the Food Matters 2010 awards and can be found at various farmers markets.
Hi Graham – thanks for adding the link. Gluten free cakes are out there! It’s great to see an ever increasing range available.
Peace of Cake London have also been shortlisted for the FreeFrom Food Matters 2010 awards and deliver to London addresses.
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