Custom cake boxes with logo printing, for bakeries selling birthday, celebration and layer cakes. We size them to your cake boards with headroom for frosting and toppers, in food-friendly paperboard or corrugated, and you can add a window if you want the cake on show.
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Four hours piping rosettes. Then a lid drags across the top on the drive home and, yeah, that’s the worst. Custom cake boxes with logo printing get sized to the cakes you actually bake, with room above the frosting, and your bakery’s name rides along to every birthday, office party and family dinner that cake lands at.
Home bakers turning pro order them, so do neighborhood bakeries and dessert shops. Pretty much everyone tells us the same story: they started on plain white stock boxes and then noticed nobody had a clue where the cake came from once it was sitting on the table.
Size from the board. Not the cake.
Say you bake an 8 inch round. It probably sits on a 10 inch board, so we’d make you a 10 x 10. Height next. Two plain layers? 4 or 5 inches is fine. Throw on tall swirls or a fondant topper or a drip and we’d go 6 inches, maybe more, and honestly for stacked tiers just grab our tall cake boxes instead.
Leave a bit of side room too. If the board touches the walls, buttercream comes off the edges when someone lifts it out, and they always lift at an angle, always.
For one regular cake we’d just use SBS paperboard, it’s stiff and clean and prints bright. Heavy stuff is different. A 12 inch fruit cake can fold the bottom of a paperboard box right there in the parking lot, which is why dense cheesecakes and big rounds go in E-flute corrugated with us. Kraft we like on rustic or naked cakes (smudges don’t show much).
Lid style is up to you really. We kind of prefer the front flap, because you slide the cake in from the side instead of lowering it in, and your decorations will thank you.
People look at the lid first, so that’s where the logo goes, with your handle and website on a side panel. Want a window on top? It shows off the decoration and stops customers lifting the lid to peek at the counter, and we line it with food-safe film.
Matte looks modern. Gloss wipes clean easier when a bit of icing ends up on the outside (it will). Inks are soy-based and water-based, our team lays out the design free and sends a digital proof, and if you sell smaller bakes our cupcake boxes can wear the same artwork.
How many do you need to start? Often around 50 boxes depending on the style, and every box gets cheaper as the order grows. Flat shipping helps a lot when your back shelf is already stacked with flour sacks, and if you’re trying to work out space, there’s our guide on how many bakery boxes fit on a pallet.
Production runs 10 to 12 business days after you approve the proof, and ground shipping anywhere in the USA is free. Wedding season or holidays coming? Order early or ask us about rush. The full bakery packaging boxes range has more.
We’d say 8 x 8 at the base if it’s on an 8 inch board. Go 5 inches tall for a standard cake, 6 or more if the frosting is tall.
Sure. Side windows are popular on drip cakes and layered designs, just keep the cake a little back from the window edge.
It will, but condensation softens plain paperboard. We’d go coated board or E-flute for anything frozen.
Not sure which size you need? Our guide to cake box sizes lists the common ones and how to measure.
Plenty of customers order this alongside custom candy boxes, custom chocolate packaging boxes, macaron boxes and muffin boxes. More styles are in bakery packaging boxes, and packaging cakes and pastries covers the common sizes.
