Your wedding cake is the one dessert every single guest will see, photograph and remember. It deserves more thought than a catalogue picture.
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 wedding 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.
Buckhurst Hill weddings tend to be polished. It is a village that takes its celebrations seriously, and a good many receptions are either at home on Queens Road and the surrounding streets, or a short run into Loughton and the forest venues. Couples here usually arrive with a very clear picture of what they want, often already pinned and colour matched.
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 have a mood board or a folder of saved pictures, send the lot. It is far more useful to us than trying to describe a finish in words.
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.
Wedding cakes work backwards from the date. We would normally want the design settled six to eight weeks out and the booking made a good deal earlier than that, particularly for the summer months when Saturdays go quickly. Between those two points there is a tasting, and we would rather you did it properly than picked flavours off a list. Most couples end up choosing different flavours per tier, which costs nothing extra and means there is something for everyone. On the day itself we set the cake up ourselves. That means stacking on site rather than transporting a finished stacked cake, which is how most cake disasters happen. We will want the venue contact, the room, the time the doors open and where the cake table will be standing. If there is a cake stand you have hired or borrowed, tell us the size and shape early, because a cake designed for a 14 inch board will not sit properly on a 12 inch stand.
Two tier wedding cakes start from £200 and three tier designs from £300, with the final price depending on size, detail and finish. 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.
Two tier wedding cakes start from £200 and three tier designs from £300, with the final price depending on size, detail and finish. Every cake is quoted individually once we know the size, the design and the date.
Wedding cakes are usually booked six to twelve months ahead, and popular summer Saturdays go first. If your date is closer than that it is always worth asking, as we sometimes have space.
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.