Handmade cakes and cupcakes for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries

Cupcakes (sometimes known as fairy cakes) are becoming more and more popular for weddings, birthdays and other celebrations. We offer a range of presentation options, including some fantastic display stands. Our cupcakes come in two sizes – fairy cake and cupcake. The cupcake size is approximately the size of a supermarket muffin.

Rapunzel Birthday Cake and matching fairy cakes

  • Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:32 pm

A pretty cake, memorable for every detail we add to her cake and sugar dress, this time in purple and pink.  Every cake is different, unique for your little girl.

The matching fairy cakes are hand piped with the name of every little girl at the party, perfect for popping in party bags as the little ones leave, avoiding the need to slice up and bag your precious Rapunzel cake at speed and under pressure.

The cake is finished with ribbons of sugar and hand piped with lace, finished with cake sparkles for that fairy tale touch.

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Heart Engagement Cake and Cupcakes

  • Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:38 am

We were delighted to make Leanne and James’ engagement cake.  A pistachio and cherry triple layer covered in ivory icing with their initials and sugar hearts applied like confetti tumbling down the cake.  To match delicious chocolate ganache cupcakes in milk and creamy dark chocolate, filled and topped with a generous swirl and the same sugar hearts in ivory and burgundy.  Finished with a subtle sprinkling of cake sparkles!
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Wedding cupcake tower

  • Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:23 pm

A stunning tower of milk and creamy dark chocolate ganache cupcakes, each with its own hand cut red sugar heart and cake sparkles!  Every cupcake is made with light, moist chocolate sponge, filled and topped with smooth silky ganache, every one is hand decorated.

50 Cupcakes make an amazing impact, brought to life with a dozen red velvet grand prix roses, ruscus and berries to match the theme of the wedding.

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Football Birthday Cupcakes

  • Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:44 pm

We are proud to make these fun cakes made for a Reading Club Footballer’s birthday.  Delicious vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, filled and piped with a generous swirl of light whipped butter cream and finished with a hand piped and painted sugar piece and cake sparkles.

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Eid Celebration Cupcakes

  • Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:40 pm

Pretty Eid celebration cupcakes, in vanilla and chocolate filled with and topped off with a generous swirl of delicious whipped butter cream or a delicate sugar fondant layer.  Each with a pretty hand piped message, finished with cake sparkles.

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Radley dog logo birthday cake and cupcakes

  • Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:07 pm

If you love Radley, you will love this cake.   Both the large cake and the fairy cakes all have the Radley pastel theme and hand cut sugar logos to match.  Carefully cut,  covered and filled generously with delicious butter cream these cakes are all gluten free and deliciously moreish.  All finished with a sugar plaque and cake sparkles.

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Girly cupcakes for a 1st Birthday

  • Posted on September 15, 2011 at 11:04 pm

Pretty little fairy cakes made for Bea’s first birthday and Christening combined.  Whether you prefer the blossom cakes or the number ’1′s, finished with a delicate hand made bow, both are wonderful and it is so hard to choose – have both!

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Wedding cupcake tower

  • Posted on July 23, 2011 at 11:47 pm

Our fun wedding cake is colour themed to be perfect with the theme of this wedding at the venue of our partner, Bearwood Lakes Golf Club.  The hand made stand with sugar flowers sets off our cupcakes so perfectly, and the ribbons fall from the top, showing off the delicious giant cupcake top cake.  There are 72 cupcakes on the stand, in four delicious flavours: carrot, decorated with hand piped carrots, lemon with crystalised lemon strips, white chocolate with a button and vanilla, filled with jam and decorated with a hand made sugar flower.

A memorable cake for a special wedding, fun and perfect for a Summer wedding.

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Cupcake gift box

  • Posted on July 23, 2011 at 11:26 pm

We offer so many cupcakes and designs at Cakeadelic, but we thought we would inspire you with a few that we made this week.  So pretty for Summer and so perfect for a special afternoon tea, a gift for a friend or to share with colleagues at work for fun or as a celebration.  There are so many excuses to choose from, why not indulge anyway?

These cupcakes are inspired by Summer flowers, the pretty rose piped butter cream, the glorious dahlia and the hand made rose on rich chocolate butter cream are the perfect choice for a Summer celebration.

Cupcake gift boxes are priced from £25

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Shoes and handbags birthday cupcakes

  • Posted on July 17, 2011 at 6:28 pm

Wow!  These delicate hand made shoes and handbags make a real impact to the already luxurious chocolate ganache cupcakes.  Each shoe is hand made from sugar, then decorated and painted to match your colour scheme and style.  The handbags are made to your style in your favourite colour.  A perfect present or an eye catching birthday cake for the shoe fanatic in you.

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Quiet wedding cupcakes

  • Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:49 am

A stunning cupcake tower for a quieter wedding.  24 cupcakes make this the perfect combination of style and elegance.  Four designs in two flavours, carrot and lemon, the hand made roses and piped leaves on the lemon cakes are a perfect match for the filled favours boxes and scented candles.  The cream, gold and green colour combination are perfect together.

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Lilac butterfly wedding cupcakes

  • Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:22 pm

A fun cake for a more intimate wedding.  54 Cupcakes make an impact in three different flavours; lemon, vanilla and milk chocolate, topped with a generous swirl of whipped butter cream and one or more often two hand cut, hand painted sugar butterflies as well as cake sparkles.

To add to the creation, there is a pretty cutting cake, with a fresh flower arrangement and more sugar butterflies, leaving a hand painted subtle pearl trail.

Even with some extras, they were all gone at the end of the day!

 

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Piped flower cupcake tower

  • Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:45 am

These pretty cupcakes were hand piped to look like little flowers, and decorated with a chocolate dipped strawberry.  Delicious, rich, moist dark chocolate cake is filled with chocolate ganache and then topped with the pretty  flower piping decoration.

We have decorated the maypole stand with strawberries and flowers to make it attractive and feminine for a super birthday celebration.

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Tangled Birthday cake with matching cupcakes

  • Posted on June 15, 2011 at 1:14 am

Our Rapunzel is so popular, and we love making her for our precious little customers!  This time we have made her with matching fairy cakes, piped with the names of the joint birthday girls, added sugar blossoms and cake sparkles – perfect to make everyone happy on their big birthday.

Every Rapunzel we make is different, as unique as we can make her within the theme.

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Fairy castle and matching cupcakes

  • Posted on May 9, 2011 at 12:37 am

An enchanting fairy tale castle, with so much detail, flower windows, leaf pathways, towers and secret doors.  A set of matching fairy cakes makes it so special, together with the hand piped sugar keepsake plaque.

A really super cake for your little girl, memorable and the centrepiece of your celebration party.

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Explosion wedding cupcake tower

  • Posted on May 9, 2011 at 12:25 am

A stunning cake for a smaller wedding.  The cutting cake at the top explodes with sugar pieces, shards from the explosion landing on every cupcake.  These delicious cupcakes are made in lemon, vanilla and luxurious chocolate ganache.  The bride’s choice of pretty favour boxes alongside the cupcakes makes it even more attractive.  Perfect for such special guests.

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Blue Star Christening cake

  • Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:48 pm

A special Christening cake for a little boy and all of his family and friends.  A hand made, hand piped sugar plaque decorated with blue stars and silver sugar balls is the centrepiece of this cake, surrounded by many different stars in different sizes and shades of blue, together with silver balls and piped rosettes.

The cake is surrounded by individual hand piped cupcakes with matching blue stars and the names of the children at Joshua’s Christening to enjoy and remember.

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Star Wars cupcakes

  • Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:35 pm

The Force is with these delicious little cakes.  Chocolatey sponge, filled and topped with butter cream and dark chocolate, finished with a fondant disk.  Each cake sports a hand made piece of Star Wars kit – be it Obi Wan’s green light sabre or Darth Vader’s red one or even the Death Star… the cakes are hand piped with a phrase or slogan from any of the 6 films – can you guess which one and who said what??  Such fun and delicious too!   A great idea for any Star Wars fan – however old they are!

Star Wars cupcakes

Delicious large Easter cupcakes

  • Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:08 pm

These really are the royalty of cupcakes.  Large cupcakes are filled and topped with delicious whipped butter cream and each is given its own Easter character – mini eggs, bunnies, crunchie – a mixture of tempting ideas.  Tell me your favourites, or let me be creative …

Presented on a cupcake stand, decorated with pretty Spring flowers.

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100 Stunning fairy cakes

  • Posted on February 27, 2011 at 12:58 am

These beautiful fairy cakes are perfect for a stylish wedding.  Each individually made, topped and filled with delicious butter cream and finished with a hand cut, hand decorated butterfly or champagne bottle and cake sparkles.

These lovely cakes are displayed on our stunning mirrored cake stand and decorated with beautiful fresh roses.

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Girly tiara cupcakes

  • Posted on February 27, 2011 at 12:51 am

A super mixture of hand made sugar girly things on these delicious cupcakes, hand bags, shoes, champagne bottles and tiaras make these the perfect choice for a girly birthday.

Choose all pink or all chocolate swirls or mix it up with both!  Which to choose first  - decisions, decisions……

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Butterfly named cupcakes

  • Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:15 pm

So pretty in your choice of colours, these lovely little cakes are made to be personal with individual names hand piped with care and love.  Any flavour, any colour, any theme, any name – ring for inspiration!

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Princess cupcakes

  • Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:02 pm

Pretty cupcakes with handmade tiaras, every one different, sparkly and delicate.  We hand piped each young lady’s name on the cakes as a princess.  We offer pink, red, dark red, pale blue, lilac or indeed any other favourite colour that you might like to choose.

Also available in this range is a variation for the boys with hand made motifs, footballs (made in their team colours if you wish), rugby balls, or whatever you like – the choice is yours!  Ask for inspiration….

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Cupcake tower with beautiful flowers

  • Posted on November 14, 2010 at 9:10 am

Cupcake tower A beautiful cupcake tower, perfect for a wedding with guests of any age, lovely for your reception, easy to refresh for your evening guests.

Cakes of different flavour, size and decoration make the tower a cake to look at once and stay to stare – which one will be yours?  The vanilla?  The chocolate?  The lemon?  Decisions, decisions!

Butterflies & bows wedding cake

  • Posted on October 24, 2010 at 10:38 pm

A stunning and beautiful wedding cake, made up from 100 fairy cakes, some decorated with glorious coral butterflies and some with matching bows.

A top cutting cake makes a more traditional statement, decorated with glorious fresh roses and leaves, finished with more butterflies, bows and rosebuds around the bottom of the cake.

The flowers and hand cut, hand painted butterflies make the cake so beautiful, bringing it to life and making it special enough for such a big day.

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Delicate flower cupcakes

  • Posted on October 15, 2010 at 9:49 pm

A super arrangement of delicious cupcakes, decorated with beautiful hand made flowers and butterflies.  The cakes are finished with cake sparkles and are beautiful.  They are made as a baker’s dozen with a hand made plaque and butterflies decorating the centre.  Made in your choice of colour – pastels or brights, so pretty either way.
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Silver Anniversary cake with matching cupcakes & fairy cakes

  • Posted on September 26, 2010 at 9:48 pm

A super fun cake with the full explosion, pieces of icing spread across the cake and silver balls, extending down to the matching cupcakes and the little fairy cakes.  Beautiful and stunning, perfect for a special anniversary.

Silver Anniversary explosion with matching cakes

Pink Explosion cake with matching cupcakes

  • Posted on September 18, 2010 at 10:26 am

A pretty explosion cake in pink with a hand piped sugar keepsake plaque and delightful pink and white matching cupcakes, each with a sugar piece.

Pink explosion cake with matching fairy cakes

Butterfly explosion cake with matching fairy cakes

  • Posted on August 20, 2010 at 10:30 pm

A really pretty and incredibly stunning birthday cake in our signature explosion style. All in delicate pinks and lilacs for a special birthday girl, with hand piped keepsake sugar plaque.

The lovely fairy cakes, made so carefully and decorated with delicate butterflies, hand dusted, matching the butterflies on the main cake. Such a super arrangement for a landmark birthday.
Butterfly Explosion cake with matching fairy cakes

Fun cupcakes for a mixture of ages

  • Posted on July 9, 2010 at 10:59 pm

Fun cupcakes made of delicious moist chocolate cake, decorated with hand piped names and hand painted sugar motifs.  Very pretty and attractive, ideal for a Summer party.

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Cake and cupcakes Christening cake

  • Posted on May 31, 2010 at 10:54 pm

A really attractive Christening cake for a little boy.  A feature cake with hand made, hand piped sugar plaque to keep forever, finished with a satin ribbon and hand cut, hand painted sugar motifs.

A cake for every child, each with their own name hand piped and a hand cut, hand painted sugar motif.  Finding yours is more than half the fun!

Could be equally lovely in pink!

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Summer Wedding Cupcakes

  • Posted on May 15, 2010 at 11:08 pm

A stunning tower of cupcakes, 30 here, ideal for the more intimate wedding celebration.  Each cake is hand made with a delicious swirl of vanilla butter cream over delicious light sponge and strawberry extra jam finished with a sugar double heart motif.

Beautiful pink and white roses, scented stocks and delphinium compliment the bride’s delicate Summer wedding colour scheme, a wonderful cake to grace and delight on the most important of days.

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Character Birthday Cupcakes

  • Posted on March 21, 2010 at 9:27 pm

A great idea for a smaller party!  These individually made cakes were unique to the little person shown, with their hairstyle and looks, down to the colour of their eyes created with love and care.  These wonderful cakes delighted all the little guests and most just wanted to keep them to look at and admire.

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Delicate cupcakes

  • Posted on March 15, 2010 at 1:20 am

A selection of three individually hand made cupcakes.  Such pretty cakes in different shades of pink, blue and yellow with hand cut butterflies, presented on a specially made board, dusted with cake sparkles.

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21st Birthday cupcakes

  • Posted on March 15, 2010 at 1:15 am

An impressive tower of cupcakes, shown on my beautiful Maypole cake stand, decorated with wonderful fresh flowers.  Each cake is decorated with a hand piped ’21′ in stunning black and white with golden cupcake cases.

The birthday girl’s cake is decorated with a hand piped, hand painted personal message and embellished with a ribbon and dusting.  So pretty and it all matched the party decorations in smart black and white.

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Golden explosion Birthday cake with matching cupcakes

  • Posted on March 15, 2010 at 1:10 am

The very popular and wonderful golden explosion cake with matching cupcakes.  The explosion has blown golden balls onto the cupcakes, making hand painted golden trails.  A beautiful sugar keepsake sugar plaque and cake sparkles finishes the impact with a bang!

Golden Explosion Birthday cake with matching cupcakes

Birthday cupcakes

  • Posted on March 15, 2010 at 1:03 am

A wonderful and creative selection of birthday cupcakes to delight a mixture of boys and girls, old and young.  Fun and delicious both at the same time!

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Giant Cupcake Birthday cake

  • Posted on February 24, 2010 at 12:18 am

An amazing cake in the shape of a giant cupcake!  Many layers of glorious vanilla sponge cake hold up a glorious swirl covered with delicious and tempting sweets.  It is all edible, and finished with a beautiful hand piped, hand painted keepsake sugar plaque.

Giant cupcake Birthday cake

Birthday cup cake tower

  • Posted on February 19, 2010 at 9:35 pm

A stunning birthday cake stacked high as cupcakes, all individually designed, all different, hand painted, modelled with love and care.  A knitting fan and a lady who appreciates good design, this massive tower of cakes was greatly admired.

There were 82 cakes in total, a mixture of cup cake size and fairy cake size, sitting side by side with beautiful fresh flowers.  The feature cake was for the birthday girl, finished with a hand made keepsake sugar plaque.

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Cupcake Tower Birthday cake

Cupcake stack Birthday cake

  • Posted on February 6, 2010 at 10:52 pm

A truly magnificent stack of cupcakes in my two sizes (fairy cake and cupcake sizes).  Each one different, each one delicious, a mixture of chocolate and vanilla cakes with hand cut, hand painted sugar pieces and hand painted detail.

The cupcake stand was decorated with beautiful fresh flowers and finished with a personalised hand painted keepsake sugar plaque.  This was much admired and my client included its detail in her speech.

Cupcake Stack Birthday cake

Wedding cupcake tower

  • Posted on November 29, 2009 at 9:44 pm

A pretty cupcake tower for a quieter wedding.  This tower carries 40 cupcakes, and looks fabulous.

Any colour combination is possible to theme with your wedding, the cupcakes can be any flavour, or design – you choose!

Tower of 40 cupcakes for a quiet wedding

12 tier wedding cupcake tower

  • Posted on October 4, 2009 at 11:05 pm

This is the most amazing wedding cake to see.  It is an incredible 12 tiers high and just about brushes the top of the marquee!  There are 160 chocolate cupcakes, rich yet light, generously topped with swirls of luxurious dark chocolate ganache (an amazing concoction of the best chocolate, double cream and luscious butter!)  Finished with a hand cut, hand painted sugar swirl and dusted with light reflecting cake sparkles with a lilac flash to match the bride’s colour scheme.

The cake was the centre piece of such a special wedding and drew gasps and admiring glances from the guests as it stood for all to see – well it could hardly be missed!

12 tier chocolate cupcake wedding cake

Animal cupcake birthday cake

  • Posted on October 4, 2009 at 10:46 pm

A lovely stack of cupcakes designed for a special first birthday.  Each cupcake is made with an individually hand cut, hand painted fun animal with two balloons, again hand painted.

The top cutting cake is decorated with loads and loads of hand cut balloons, with hand piped strings and a sugar plaque to keep forever.

The stand is made with matching fondant and more hand made balloons and strings.  This beautiful cake made a stunning centre piece for a very important little boy.

This arrangement was made up from 40 cakes, but I could offer more cakes or fewer cakes and it would be just as lovely.

Fun animal and Balloon cup cakes

Animal Birthday Cupcakes

  • Posted on September 13, 2009 at 5:02 pm

An impressive stack of delicious strawberry and vanilla cupcakes, decorated with butter cream, fondant icing and a hand cut, hand painted jungle animal motif, finished with cake sparkles.

On the top is a super cutting cake, a 6″ triple layer vanilla sponge cake, decorated to match the cupcakes with the same hand painted animal motifs, finished with a pretty hand piped plaque to keep, a pink ribbon and cake sparkles to add to the fun!

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Wedding Cupcakes in tangy, zesty lemon

  • Posted on August 22, 2009 at 9:17 pm

This fun wedding cake was made up of 75 large cupcakes in a delicious zesty lemon, topped with rich yet fruity butter cream.  Every cupcake was decorated with hand cut crystallized lemon zest.

The stand is hand made, each pillar decorated with piped lemon trees winding up the pillars, giving the stand an unusual and unique twist.  The graceful  ribbons flow from a fresh lemon topped with a crystal.

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Girly cupcakes

  • Posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:27 pm

A whole wardrobe is included on the top of these small cupcakes, finished with attention to detail.

Always individually hand cut, painted and finished, they can be big or small, but Cakeadelic cupcakes always stand out from the crowd.

Beautiful cupcakes for a happy birthday

Welsh & girly birthday cupcakes

  • Posted on July 31, 2009 at 10:24 pm

All of Shelley’s interests are included on these cakes, her heritage, love of shopping, her babies, her fun personality and her love of design.  She was delighted with the cakes, they were so convenient to travel as she planned to take them on her birthday treat that weekend!

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Welsh teacher retirement cupcakes

  • Posted on July 31, 2009 at 9:55 pm

This was a fitting arrangement of stunning cupcakes in different sizes from both chocolate and vanilla for this respected retiring Welsh music teacher from Swansea.  They went down very well with longing looks from the boys and hopeful looks from the staff as I delivered these cakes locally, to the surprise of the teacher himself and the delight of his colleagues!

Retirement cupcakes for a Welsh Teacher

Beautiful girly cupcakes

  • Posted on June 21, 2009 at 9:27 pm

These stunning individually hand painted cupcakes in both vanilla and chocolate were designed for Windsor and Eton Brides wedding dress shop.  They are perfect for a special treat to give and to share with friends.

I can design cakes especially for your event and interests, your hobbies, your passions and your favourite things!

Exquisite cup cakes for Windsor & Eton Brides
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