Journal
London City Wedding Cakes!
We are delighted to be able to blog the lovely wedding of Fay and Paul at Stationers Hall in the City of London back in September this year. These images are courtesy of London photographer Kris Life Photos and we are incredibly grateful to Kris for sharing them with...
Princess Castle Cakes!
We don't do many princess castle cakes, so when we do we make sure they are quite special! This cake was for Angela's 50th birthday at Brandshatch Place Hotel and Spa in kent on Saturday. The cake had to be assembled on site so not the easiest of designs to pull off,...
Winter Wedding Cakes at Leeds Castle
This is beautiful wedding cake we designed and created for Michaela and Oussama's wedding at Leeds Castle just yesterday. We absolutely love it when a couple are brave enough to go for a base colour that is not white! We love love love white wedding cakes but other...
Leeds Castle Wedding Showcase
As a recommended supplier to Leeds Castle for nearly 7 years now, it was a privilege once again to exhibit at their beautiful wedding showcase this weekend. No banqueting hall in the country could be grander than the King Henry VIII Banqueting Hall in the main castle...
Thunderbirds Tracey Island Cake
I have to be honest in saying that I had no idea Thunderbirds was coming back - apparently for a 50th Anniversary come back. This must explain why we have had two enquiries in the last week or so for the Tracy Island cake we did a couple of years ago. So, it look like...
Mad Hatters Wedding Cake – The Ritz, London
This is the wedding cake we designed and created for Ana and Theresa for their wedding at the The Ritz in London on 31st October. Ana and Theresa wanted something quirky and different. We have many beautiful wedding cakes on display in the studio but I have to say,...
Dummy (Fake) Tiers in Wedding Cakes
After being asked probably 10 times so far this week for a cheaper quote if, (and I quote) 'you stick a couple of dummys in' I thought I should set the record straight on the use of dummy tiers in wedding cakes. People assume that if you put a dummy tier or two in a...
Wedding Cake Trends for 2016
We are very busy with consultations at the moment so we are seeing what brides are looking for in 2016. What's really encouraging is that more brides are being a little more daring and veering away from the traditional white for their wedding cake. It seems that...
Ladurée Style Wedding Cakes
This is the Ladurée style wedding cake we delivery to Chilston Park in Kent for the wedding of Jessica and Ian last Sunday. Before Jessica came to see us earlier this year she had created the most amazing 'mood' board and it was quite clear that the design was to be...
Naked Wedding Cakes in Kent – at Hever Castle
This is the five tier wedding cake we produced for Chloe and Gary for their wedding at Hever Castle this autumn. As will see on our website, we do generally specialise in much more ornate creations as opposed to 'naked ones' but it was still lovely to do something...
Luxury Wedding Cakes at Pennyhill Park, Surrey
What an absolute treat to have been supplied these gorgeous images! Courtesy of the incredibly talented Mike Garrard - Mike Garrard Photography. These images are from Melinda & Jai's wedding at Pennyhill park in August this year. Melinda and Jai came to see us...
Luxury Wedding Cakes at Cooling Castle Barn
These are the images of the wedding cake we made for Sarah and Steven back in September this year at Cooling Castle Barn in Kent. When we book couples in for a design consultation we always allow for up to 2 hours. Some have taken longer... Sarah was probably only...
Ombre Cake Designs
Ombre cake designs are sooooo popular at the moment. In fact, we are working on another beautiful one this week for a wedding at The Langham Hotel in London on Saturday. As a cake designer and maker the ombre design is a real treat. You do need a very steady eye to...
Weddings at The London Golf Club, Kent
These are the images of the gorgeous wedding cake we designed and created for Amy and Craig at the London Golf Club on 12th September. It was lovely to go back to The London as a very close friend got married there a few years back and we hadn't actually been back...
Vintage Rose and Champagne at Pennyhill Park
Just a very quick post to showcase what I think it our absolute favourite wedding cake of 2015. We will re post when we receive some of the official images but I just couldn't wait to get this on the website. A base of exquisite sugar vintage pink roses, combined with...
Wedding Cake Frills at The Hotel Cafe Royal
A few pics of the our beautiful Latte Frills design at the Cafe Royal in London's Regent Street. This was for the wedding of Ngozi and Charles on the 11th July. We had never delivered to the Cafe Royal before so a real treat to get to see the wonderful Pompodour...
Exquisite Sugar Flowers on Cakes…
Just a quick blog to show a couple of images of a beautiful cake we did last week for a couple celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary. Whilst we do specialise in very elaborate cakes, sometimes less really is more and I think this was certainly the case in this...
1st Birthday Cakes!
Just a very quick post to show this lovely little first birthday cake we made for Flynn last week. As you can see, the theme was hot air balloons and so we wanted to make it nice and tall to give the sense of sky and space. We received a lovely text from a very happy...
Ruffles and Frills Cakes – at Leeds Castle, Kent
This is the the wedding cake we delivered to Leeds Castle on 25 June for the wedding of Susan and Danny. Susan and Danny were a lovely couple to work with. Completely chilled out (Danny is almost horizontal) so absolutely no stressing, just very happy to leave it in...
Simple but Striking.. at Hever Castle, Edenbridge
We have just received this lovely image of a black and white cake we made back in May for Roz and Stuart at Hever Castle in Kent. As the Recommended supplier to Hever Castle we deliver many cakes to this wonderful venue and all of them are very different. This cake...
Roz and Stuart at The Italian Gardens, Hever Castle
We are delighted to share this beautiful video of Roz and Stuarts wedding at The Italian Gardens, Hever Castle. Produced by Cut Above Products and the wedding cake by... wait for it... us. Enjoy Nicola x
Fresh Flower Wedding Cakes – at Leeds Castle
We had the pleasure of delivering to Leeds Castle on Saturday for the wedding of Lisette and Orlando. Lisette and Orlando didn't want to spend a huge amount on their cake and thus opted for quite a plain design which was then expertly decorated by the team of florists...
Emma & Tom’s Wedding Highlights at Hever Castle
We are so excited to showcase this gorgeous video of Emma & Tom's wedding at Hever Castle back in May. The music will make your cry and the editing is just perfect. An absolutely stunning job by Cut Above Productions, who we would highly recommend. Enjoy x...
Christenings, Birthdays…. Cake Makers Bexley
We have a 'wedding free' week this at Hall of Cakes but as busy cake makers we are still working on lots of other cakes. We have two christening cakes going out this weekend, plus a 21st Birthday cake and a Disney 'Frozen cake for a very lucky 4 year old. These are...
African Wedding Cakes
Hall of Cakes have worked on many African weddings in and around London and the UK The African wedding cakes are usually very grand and very ornate. Actually we have been told by more than one African family that it is, to say the least, a little bit competitive in...
Vintage Pink Frills at Hever Castle
We are so delighted to post these gorgeous images of Emma and Tom's wedding at Hever Castle a few weeks ago. With thanks to Kenny Hickey Photography for capturing such beautiful shots (as always..) and for sharing them with us. Emma told me on the phone the other...
Wedding Cakes at The Orangery, Maidstone
We are receiving lots of lovely enquiries for 2016 now and in particular for lots of Kent venues - particularly The Orangery (or otherwise known as The Turkey Mill) in Maidstone. As an established wedding cake company in Kent we work with many Kent venues - to include...
Wedding Cakes In Rochester – Little Hermitage
We had the absolute pleasure of delivering to Little Hermitage on Friday. The most gorgeous little venue just between Gravesend and Rochester. As a very established cake company in Kent, we couldn't believe we hadn't been to this venue before. What a little gem! A...
Jungle Birthday Cake
Just wanted to quickly blog a lovely cake we did a few weeks ago now. It was for Frazers 1st Birthday and a gorgeous little jungle theme. We received a lovely thank you from the client... Hi Nicola, Thanks so much for Frazer's cake. It looked and tastes amazing, I...
Baby Shower Cakes!
We loved this gorgeous baby shower cake we created last week. A combination of baby blue and pink is just perfect if you don't yet know the sex of the imminent arrival!
Wedding Cakes at Parklands, Quendon Hall
We are delighted to have become one of the recommended suppliers to Parklands, Quendon Hall in Essex. We delivered to this stunning venue just a few weeks ago and now very much look forward to working with many more couples at this gorgeous Essex venue! If you are...
White and Gold Wedding Cake Grandeaur
This is the wedding cake we designed and created for Claire and Leo for their wedding at Hatfield House in March this year. Claire wanted her wedding cake to be grand. Huge in fact! Nothing less than 7 tiers was going to work for this lady. Claire came to us with...
Claire & Leo – Hatfield House, 14 March 2015
Well what can I say except - what a magnificant and stunning cake! I absolutely loved my wedding cake and all our guests commented on how elegant and delicious it was. They said it was the first thing they noticed when looking around the room. I especialy loved the...
Hall of Cakes feature in Your Kent Wedding
We are delighted to have been featured this month in Your Kent Wedding magazine As Your Kent Weddings' cake expert we were asked to answer a cake question from a bride who wasn't sure how she was going to combine her cake ideas with her future husbands chocolate...
Lace Wedding Cakes
Wedding Cakes with Lace have become so popular. The lace is made out of sugar and looks simple exquisite against a pale base colour of icing - particularly a pearlised colour. This is the wedding cake we delivered last Saturday to The Grand Connaught Rooms in London...
Ruffles and Frills Wedding Cakes
It seems as though ruffles and frills are the trend for 2015! We are received so many enquries for our Latte Frills design and also our Silver Frills design (main featured image) which we have now made with various adaptations. The ruffles (or frills) are made out of...
About Hall of Cakes – Video
We are delighted to post our new video! This is just a short film telling you a little bit about Hall of Cakes. A short insight into how the team work, what we do... and how we go about making all of our beautiful wedding and occasional cakes. You get to see a little...
Beautiful Wedding Cakes for 2015
We have so many lovely weddings booked in for 2015 and we are still receiving lots of new enquiries every day. The trends for this year seem to be lots (and I mean seriously lots!) of frills and ruffles, mixed with some gorgeous vintage shades of pinks, champagnes and...
Amazing Wedding Cakes
Amazing wedding cakes is what we do. Whilst we can - and do - produce cakes of all different shapes and sizes, we have gained quite a reputation for our amazing centre piece wedding cakes. A lot of couples come to us because they want something really grand. We have...
Traditional Wedding Cakes
Hall of Cakes have become renowned for their traditional wedding cakes. Cakes adorned with beautiful intricate piping, designed and executed with precision technique. Whilst Hall of Cakes can design and make cakes of any style and size they are often selected by...
Wedding at The Ritz, London
We had the absolute pleasure of delivering to The Ritz on Sunday for the wedding of Neda and Justin. We met with Neda and Justin at The Ritz a couple of months ago. They had quite opposing ideas as regards the cake design - Neda wanting it to be very traditional and...
Pretty Frills at Hever Castle
We are delighted to have been asked again by Hever Castle to exhibit another of our creations for their Wedding Showcase this coming Saturday. We have worked with Hever Castle for a number of years now and it is a truly beautiful venue. We have delivered many...
Spots & Stripes at Cooling Castle Barn, Kent
This is the wedding cake delivered for Katherine and Kevin for their celebrations at Cooling Castle Barn 2 weeks ago. This cake was actually a gift. Nadine, who works as part of our team is sister-in-law to Kevin (and now Katherine) and offered her services as...
Cakes in Kent, Cakes in Chelsea…
Another busy week here - mainly for wedding consultations but we also had two occasional cakes to do this week. The first one was for a 40th birthday for Nicola in Kent and the other was for Robert's 50th -which was delivered to Chelsea yesterday morning. As with any...
Birthday Cakes, Frozen Cakes…
We were so busy in the run up to Christmas that we didn't get a chance to blog some of our favourite cakes from November and December. Here are a few images of our faves... A three tier Frozen Birthday cake for a very lucky 5 year old, two christmas cakes and a...
Simple Cakes within your the wedding budget!
If you are looking for a beautiful wedding cake that wont break the wedding budget, our Simply Elegant range might be just the thing you are looking for. You can choose from 4 beautiful, simple designs. All four designs are three tiers and cater for up to 110...
Dotty Wedding at The ORNC, Greenwich London
Firstly, Happy New Year! Apologies for the silence on the blog in the last month or so but December was crazy busy and thus little time for blogging etc. Over the Christmas period we did three weddings - one at the Savoy, one locally at restaurant in Bexleyheath and...
One Shade of Grey at Botleys – More Pics!
We are delighted that we are able to feature a few more images of this wedding - thanks to the generosity of Alan Harbord Photography If you visit Alan's website you will see many more images under 'Botley's Mansion at the bottom of the home page. So chuffed to...
Naked Wedding Cake! – At Preston Court, Kent
This is the 'naked' wedding cake we made for Charlotte and Luke at the beginning of September this year. To be honest, the is the first naked wedding cake we have actually made. We have made them for celebrations and parties previously, but not actually for a...
One shade of grey at Botleys Mansion
This is the wedding cake we delivered to Botleys Mansion on 13th September for the wedding of Kayleigh & Matt. When Kayleigh came to see us a year ago with her mum and sister she was quite undecided as to the colour she wanted (as the base colour for her cake) but...