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.

There's definitely too much going on on 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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s everything here for cheesecake addicts (and I definitely have one in my house) from Chocolate Toffee Walnut Smash and Raspberry Split to Charlie’s Original New York New York double baked and far too many more to list. You can order yours personalised for birthdays and other celebrations, there are special cakes for Valentine's Day and weddings and you can have them pre-sliced too. If you want to buy one as a gift, get them to send it out for you with a card.

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.

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.

There isn't a huge selection here, but when you read about their chocolate cake, made with a fresh cream and rum ganache containing 36% chocolate and their New England home style carrot and walnut cake with its lemon cream cheese topping, if you're anything like me you'll want to have a taste. You buy them as slices, cakes or large traybakes and you need to call or email them to order. All cakes are despatched by next day courier.

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.