A birthday cake should look like the person it is for. That is difficult to do from a supermarket chiller and easy to do when someone makes it by hand.
Get a Free QuoteBuckhurst Hill is a smart, well-heeled Essex village on the Central line, wrapped around Epping Forest and known for doing celebrations properly. Bake You Happy makes birthday cakes by hand for families right across the area, and delivers them personally rather than sending them by courier.
Every cake is designed from scratch with you. There is no catalogue to pick from and no set menu of shapes. You tell Paulina about the occasion, the people and the look you have in mind, and she builds the design around that.
Birthday orders to IG9 split fairly evenly between children's parties around the Village and Roding Valley, and grown-up milestone celebrations at home. Buckhurst Hill is a small place where recommendations travel quickly, so a lot of what we make here comes from someone having seen a cake at a party a few weeks earlier.
We cover the whole of Buckhurst Hill and the IG9 postcodes, including Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill Village, Lower Queens Road, Palmerston Road, Roding Valley, Knighton and Loughton border. If you are just outside that, ask anyway, we usually can.
We deliver to homes, halls, churches and venues throughout the area. Places we know well in and around Buckhurst Hill include:
If you saw one of our cakes at a party locally and want something similar, just say whose it was and we will know exactly the one you mean.
If your celebration is somewhere else entirely, that is no problem at all. Give us the venue name and address and we will speak to them directly about access and timing.
Our kitchen sits about 25 minutes from Buckhurst Hill, which matters more than it sounds. A tiered cake does not travel well, and a shorter journey means less time in the car and a cake that arrives exactly as it left. We deliver it ourselves and, for tiered cakes, assemble it on site rather than moving it built.
The honest answer is that it depends entirely on what you want. A single tier cake with piped decoration and a message can often be done inside a week, and sometimes faster. Anything with hand modelled figures needs those figures made and dried in advance, so a fortnight is comfortable and a week is tight. A carved or sculpted cake wants three to four weeks and we will usually say no to less, not to be difficult but because rushing it shows. Saturdays in the run up to Christmas and through May to September book out first. If you have a date in mind it costs nothing to ask now and settle the design later, and that is by far the most common way people book with us. If you have left it late, still ask. We would rather tell you what is genuinely possible than have you assume it is not.
Single tier birthday cakes start from £60 for a six inch and £80 for an eight inch. Two tier cakes start from £120 and number cakes from £70. A £50 deposit secures your date, with the balance due before delivery. There is a full breakdown on our cake prices page.
Send Paulina a message with your date, roughly how many people you are feeding, and any idea of the look you want, even a rough one. She will reply personally, talk it through with you and send a quote. You can also read the full ordering guide first if you prefer.
Yes. We deliver across Buckhurst Hill and the surrounding IG9 area, including Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill Village, Lower Queens Road, Palmerston Road and the rest of the neighbourhood. Our kitchen is about 25 minutes away, so your cake travels a short distance and arrives in good condition.
Single tier birthday cakes start from £60 for a six inch and £80 for an eight inch. Two tier cakes start from £120 and number cakes from £70. Every cake is quoted individually once we know the size, the design and the date.
Most birthday cakes need about a week's notice. Simple designs can sometimes be done in two or three days, so it is worth asking even at short notice.
Yes. We regularly deliver to homes, halls and venues around Buckhurst Hill, including places such as Knighton Wood and Roding Valley Nature Reserve. Just give us the venue name, the address and a contact on the day and we will arrange the timing directly with them.
Yes. We make vegan and gluten free cakes with the same designs and finishes as everything else, usually with a small supplement. Everything is baked in a kitchen that handles nuts, gluten, wheat, dairy and egg, so we label clearly but cannot promise an item is free from all traces.
Every cake is designed from scratch, so there is no price list to pick from. Send a few details and Paulina will reply personally with ideas and a quote. It costs nothing and there is no obligation.
She reads every enquiry herself and will reply to you personally, usually within a day. Her reply will come from paulina@bakeyouhappy.co, so do add that to your contacts.
If your date is close, or you would rather just talk it through, message her on WhatsApp on 07514 660 451 and she will come back to you faster.