Season by season · Peterborough
The seasonal menus
Eight menus, one for each turn of the year, all made to order for collection in Peterborough and local delivery. Whatever the season is, there is a page for it with the whole list on it.
(the oven knows what month it is)
On now · Christmas 2026
Christmas, spoken for early.
Rum-infused fruit cake, yule log, spiced mince pies, pastelles and cookies, made to order for collection, with the letterbox bakes posted through your door. Orders open 1 October and the dates run from 1 November, with the day of your choosing.
See the Christmas menuEight menus
The year, in order
Starting from the season that's running and going round. Every menu is made to order, and nothing on any of them is baked in advance and held.
- ChristmasOn nowFruit cake, yule log, mince pies, pastelles and cookies.
- New YearCakes and cookie boxes for the last night of the year.
- Valentine'sSharing cakes, brownie boxes and cupcakes for the fourteenth.
- EasterHot cross buns by the batch, and cakes for the long weekend.
- SpringChristening cakes, baby showers, and lighter citrus sponges.
- SummerWeddings, garden parties, cupcake towers and grazing tables.
- AutumnSpiced cakes, loaves, pies, and birthdays in the dark half of the year.
- HalloweenDecorated cupcakes and cakes through October.
The short version
How a seasonal order works
Tell me the date first
The date decides everything else. Send it with what you would like and roughly how many you are feeding, and I will come back within a day with a firm price and a yes or a no about the date, never a maybe that turns into a no in December.
Baked in the week you collect
Seasonal orders are taken in small numbers so nothing has to be made weeks early and frozen to make the numbers work. The exception is the rum-soaked fruit cake, which needs months, but that is the fruit soaking, not the cake waiting around.
Collect free, or local delivery
Collection in Peterborough is free. Local delivery across the PE postcodes is priced in your quote, so you see the figure in writing before anything is paid.
Seasonal questions
What are Sploffin's seasonal menus?
A menu for each season of the year: Christmas, New Year, Valentine's, Easter, spring, summer, autumn and Halloween — made to order from a registered home kitchen in Peterborough. Each one is drawn from the same recipes, arranged for what that time of year actually calls for.
How far ahead should I order seasonal bakes?
It depends on the season. Christmas orders open 1 October with collection and delivery from 1 November. Celebration cakes generally want about two weeks, wedding cakes two to three months, and the rum-soaked fruit cake a minimum of three months because the fruit soaks that long. Each season's page says what is realistic for that date.
Can I order from a seasonal menu at any time of year?
Ask. Most of what is on these menus is baked all year and simply suits one season best. The genuinely seasonal ones, like hot cross buns at Easter or the rum-soaked fruit cake at Christmas, need their own notice, and the fruit cake needs months.
Looking for a birthday or a wedding cake instead? That is the personalised cakes page.