Cakes, Cookies and Bread including Chocolate Cakes and Birthday Cakes
Where as a few years ago it was almost impossible to find great cakes, cookies and bread online now there's a wide selection, from Birthday and Christmas cakes to chocolate cakes, brownies, all types of biscuits, fruit cakes and bread.
Remember if you're ordering a cake for a special occasion to do so well in advance - you can usually select your delivery date when you order. There are places you can order at the last minute and who hasn't made that made dash to M&S for a chocolate birthday cake in an emergency. Far better, however to be prepared and give yourself time to get something special and different.
Fortnum and Mason Cakes - Made to their own Recipes
Whatever you buy here is going to be beautifully presented and very high quality. Fortnum and Mason cakes are made to their own own exclusive recipes using the best ingredients. From the King George Christmas Cake to Ambrosial Alchemy Prune, Fig & Date Cake, no effort has been spared to make the finest cakes money can buy.
Bettys by Post
Since 1919, Bettys famous Cafe Tea Rooms have been tempting customers with a delicious array of Yorkshire and Continental cakes, biscuits and chocolates, afternoon teas and freshly-prepared meals. Using traditional skills, handed down through the generations, Bettys specialities are made at the Bettys Craft Bakery in Harrogate but, wherever you are in the world, you can enjoy a taste of Bettys and choose from Celebration Cakes, Luxury Fruit Cakes, Teatime Treats, Gift Boxes and Hampers and Teas and Coffees selected by sister company Taylors of Harrogate.
Beverly Hills Bakery
If you live outside London don’t even think of looking at the full range here, as you’ll probably be really disappointed when you realise that they can’t deliver to you. Do however click through to the selection that they will send to you anywhere in the UK (and overseas, in some cases), which includes their carrot cake, apple and cinnamon cake and pear and ginger cake or one of their attractive gift tins containing delicious mini muffins, cookies and brownies.
Caketoppers
On this website you can order a birthday cake for next day delivery (just in case you've forgotten to get one ready in time), order a celebration cake to be sent anywhere in mainland UK and choose from traditional sponge and iced fruit cakes to arrive on the date of your choosing. Their novel speciality is edible pictures – so send them your photo, drawing or any image and they’ll return it as an edible decoration on a cake. They also offer mini decorated cupcakes and shortbread with your choice of photo.
Cookie Girl
Don't visit this website if you're on a diet and if you're a cookie addict, your resolution is bound to falter. Choose from milk chocolate, dark or white chocolate cookies plus rolled oats and sultanas. Can't choose? Just order them mixed. They're available in quantities of 25, 50 or 100. Order here for your next cookie party. For special occasions the Cookie Girl will prepare you exquisite cup cakes as well.
Daylesford Organic
Daylesford specialises in fresh, seasonal, organic produce from their own estate, and here you can order fruit and vegetables, poultry, game, fish, pies, terrines, cheeses and pantry goods (dressings, chutneys and more) plus breads and sweets and bath and body products. The list is extensive, the website extremely easy on the eye so take a look round now. Some items are available for overseas delivery.
Jane Asher Cakes
I'm sure you've heard of Jane Asher, actress, film star, writer, lifestyle expert and cake designer extraordinaire, but did you also know that you could buy some of her marvellous cakes online? Well now you do. Just click through to her website and her Mail Order cake section and you'll find a choice of about forty different designs for all sorts of different occasions. You can choose from three sizes of cake and sponge or fruit filling. UK delivery only, and you need to allow up to ten days for your cake to arrive.
Meg Rivers
An extremely tempting site offering 'home made' beautifully decorated cakes, biscuits and traybakes (flapjacks, chocolate brownies and the like). Their traditional fruit cake is extremely good and is made well in advance. If you can't be bothered to bake yourself definitely shop here. Having done so myself I can assure you that everyone who tastes their products will be delighted. Who wants to waste time making cakes, after all, when you could be shopping? Overseas delivery by request.
Need a Cake
There’s an quite amazing selection of cake designs here, from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger to guitar and rugby ball shaped cakes. This is a family run cake company who will send out most of their cakes to you anywhere in the UK. You can order a small selection directly online and if you want something else from their range you need to give them a call. You can choose between vanilla Madeira and chocolate fudge and you need to allow five working days for delivery.
Patisserie Valerie
At this famous patisserie you can order from their beautifully photographed collection of cakes and desserts and then collect from one of their locations, the full list of which you’ll find on their website but which are mostly based in and around London. Seeing is really believing here as the cakes are all exquisite both in taste and decoration. Prices are quite (but not outrageously) steep, as you’d expect. 24 hours is the minimum order-to-pickup time.
Poilane
This is an exceptionally attractively designed website from a famous French bakery which ships to many countries throughout the world. Click on the products on the shelves and drag them to your basket and buy Poilane breads, boxed cookies, bowls, bread knives and more. They’ll tell you when they’re baking for you and when you should receive delivery, how to store your bread and there are recipes as well. Take a look.
The Cake Store
The cake store offers a range of cakes of different sizes and decorations and for different types of occasion including, of course, Christmas. Prices include delivery and you need to allow 7 - 10 days for your order to arrive. Every cake is hand crafted and specially made for you from their choice of fun and different designs and they also offer beautiful wedding cakes. At time of writing most are only available for within the M25.
The Fabulous Bakin Boys
There's definitely too much going on at this website, but click quickly through to 'Buy Stuff' and you'll find a really great selection of flapjacks, muffins, cookies, cakes, hand cooked crisps and Belgian waffles all available in boxes or packs of twelve upwards for next day delivery. You can find nutritional information on all their products (not sure why you'd be going for this option) and everything is nut free. So, as they say, 'say it with flour'.
