Vegan · baked to order
Vegan cakes in Peterborough: vanilla, chocolate and carrot
Three cakes I bake vegan: vanilla, chocolate and carrot, all iced with vanilla buttercream made with vegan butter. You can order them now for collection or local delivery. The letterbox versions are still being worked out, and I would rather tell you that than take a postal order I cannot fill.
(the icing is the part people worry about. it holds)
The menu
The vegan cakes
That is the whole vegan list at the moment, and it is deliberately short. Nothing else on this site is vegan unless it says so.
The three I bake vegan
Vegan vanilla cake
Vanilla sponge under vanilla buttercream made with vegan butter.
Vegan chocolate cake
The chocolate sponge without the dairy and eggs, under the same vanilla buttercream.
Vegan carrot cake
The spiced carrot sponge, iced with the vanilla vegan-butter buttercream instead of the cinnamon buttercream the standard one gets.
Postal prices follow when the letterbox versions are ready. Local orders are quoted on what you ask for.
Available now, locally
You can order these three now
The vegan cakes are made to order for collection in Peterborough and local delivery, the same as any other celebration cake here. Only the postal version is waiting on a recipe. Which one, what date, how many people. That is enough to get me started.
Ask about a vegan cakeThe same icing on all three
Every one of them is finished with vanilla buttercream made with vegan butter. That matters more than it sounds: with vegan cake it is usually the icing that lets it down, because dairy-free spreads go slack and the whole thing slides. Vegan block butter behaves like butter, so the buttercream holds a piped edge and tastes of vanilla rather than of margarine.
Why the carrot one is worth a mention
The spiced carrot sponge takes to vegan baking better than almost anything, because the oil and the fruit were doing the work that eggs and butter do elsewhere. The vegan version is the same sponge as the standard one; what changes is the top. The standard carrot cake carries a cinnamon buttercream made with dairy butter, so if that is the one you have had before, expect a slightly different finish.
What the letterbox versions still need
A cake that travels is a harder problem than a cake that gets collected. It has to survive a day or two in a box on somebody's mat, cut cleanly cold, and still be worth eating at the other end. I have not worked those recipes out yet, so vegan boxes are not on sale by post and there is no waiting list promise attached to them beyond this: when they are ready, the list hears first.
Vegan does not mean allergen-free
This gets confused often and it is worth being blunt about. Vegan means no animal ingredients. It does not mean no nuts, no gluten and no cross-contact. Everything here is baked in a home kitchen where all fourteen major allergens are present, including nuts. Every order carries a full ingredient and allergen label, and if the allergy is severe, talk to me before you order.
Ordering one today
All three are baked to order for collection in Peterborough and local delivery across the PE postcodes, on the same terms as every other celebration cake here. Tell me the date, roughly how many people you are feeding and which of the three you want, and I will come back with a firm price within a day.
What is on the label
Every box carries a full ingredient and allergen label to UK requirements, with a best-before date on it, so you know exactly what you are eating and when to eat it by.
Everything is baked in a home kitchen where all 14 major allergens are present, including nuts. Allergens & ingredients
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Be first through the letterbox.
Postal ordering has not opened yet. Join the list and you will get one email the moment the first boxes go out, and telling me which box you are waiting for helps me decide what to build first.
The other letterbox gifts
- Letterbox cakesCut thick, packed flat, posted anywhere.
- Letterbox browniesSix kinds of brownie and blondie, hand-cut.
- Letterbox treatsA bit of everything: brownies, cake and cookies in one box.
- Christmas fruit cakeDried fruit soaked for months in rum and cherry brandy. The cake Christmas is measured by.
Vegan letterbox gifts, answered
Do you make vegan cakes in Peterborough?
Yes, three: vanilla, chocolate and carrot, all iced with vanilla buttercream made with vegan butter. They are baked to order for collection and local delivery. Say when you need it and how many you're feeding, and I'll come back with a price.
Can I order a vegan letterbox box by post?
Not yet. A cake that travels has to survive a day or two in the post and cut cleanly at the other end, and those recipes aren't worked out. Join the letterbox list and you'll hear when they are.
What is the vegan icing made with?
Vanilla buttercream made with vegan butter. Vegan block butter holds a piped edge the way dairy butter does; a dairy-free spread goes slack.
Is the vegan carrot cake the same as the standard one?
Same spiced sponge, different top. The standard carrot cake is finished with a cinnamon buttercream made with dairy butter; the vegan one is finished with the vanilla vegan-butter buttercream.
Is the vegan baking made in a separate kitchen?
No. Everything is baked in the same registered home kitchen, where all fourteen major allergens are present including nuts. Vegan means no animal ingredients; it does not mean free from allergens or cross-contact.
These are baked to order in Peterborough for collection and local delivery. The letterbox versions will post UK-wide once those recipes are worked out. For savoury bakes to collect, that is the pastries and pies side of the kitchen.