If you are a wedding supplier looking for more information about the Vanilla Pod Bakery, you have come to the right place.
We have created this page to help with share our wedding cake process with yourself and your clients.
- We work direct with our wedding couples, parents of wedding couples, wedding planners and venues.
- We will happily travel around a 60 mile radius from our studio. However, we are more happy to travel further afield (both in the UK and abroad).
- Our average client’s luxury wedding cake spend is between £1200 - £1500 (however, please note this may go up or down depending on final details of the cake).
- We have a menu of 18 cake flavours with our best sellers being; White Chocolate & Raspberry, Lemon Drizzle Curd and Salted Caramel.
- We can create dietary requirement cakes from vegan, diary free and gluten free
- Our wedding cake service, can include luxury wedding cakes, dessert tables, wedding favours, and cheese stacks.
- We offer two payment options. Deposit and final balance or deposit and monthly instalments.
- We have a large collection of cake stands which we hire out and collect after the wedding.
- We describe our style as Relaxed, Elegant and Timeless….however, we do love a challenge so don’t be afraid to ask us to create something you have never seen before.
Cake image by Kevin Fern Photography
- Couple, Parents of the Couple, Wedding Planner or Venue contact us through our website or direct email.
- We will answer any initial questions via email and recommend a consultation via Zoom, Phone or In Person with Founder & Director Pia.
- Consultations are booked via our online diary.
- After the consultation a personalised Digital Proposal is sent to the couple or wedding planner. The proposal includes a number of different quotes, details about additional options and information about how to pay.
- On acceptance of the quote, we send a Save the Date invoice of £350.00 to the person named as the client (either the couple, their parents or wedding planner).
- Once the deposit has been received we send a code for the couple to order a postal tasting box from our website (if they haven’t ordered one before they booked).
- We then get to work to creating a digital sketch or two based on the quote accepted.
- A zoom or telephone design consultation can then be requested to talk through the sketch and develop the ideas further.
- We then make initial contact with key suppliers and introduce ourselves as the wedding cake company.
- 8-10 weeks ahead of the wedding we will get in touch and invite the couple to a final catch up consultation.
- The complete final balance is due one month prior to the wedding date.
- 4-6 weeks in advance of the wedding we contact the venue again to confirm set up timings. Along with the florist, if flowers are being used for the cake design.
- Once we start creating the wedding cake (dessert table etc), we contact the couple and let them know all is well.
- On the day, one or more of our expert team will hand deliver and set up the cake at the pre arranged time.
- We will ask the venue to sign off on a detailed ingredients and wedding cake information sheet.
- The couple are then free to enjoy their beautiful bespoke cake.
Cake image by Alicia Victoria | Red Maple Photography
- We also create show stopping birthday cakes, cupcakes, chocolate brownies and biscuits.
- We have a collection of the above on our website but can also create bespoke cakes and bakes.
- We can easily deliver the above to your venue or clients house (please note we do charge for this service).
- We also create postal cake boxes, biscuit boxes and chocolate brownie boxes.
- We have an edible printer and a super skilled team - meaning we can create bespoke branded cakes.
- Our postal collection and cupcakes make perfect corporate gifts, team gifts, couple gifts. All can be branded with logos or branded colours.
- If your client requires helium birthday balloons or a beautiful bouquet of flowers, we can happily organise this using our trusted contacts, and deliver at the same time we deliver your clients cake.
- We can also help with wedding proposals, gender reveals, baby showers, christenings, retirements.
- We are a small team of cake lovers and enthusiasts. Our core team consists of:
- Pia - Founder & Director
- Bryony - Our fabulous Baker & Cake Decorator
- Dee - Our awesome Cake Decorator and Sugar Model Expert
- Lou - One of our Sugar Flower Experts
- Fah - Our other Sugar Flower Expert
- Kayley - Our brilliant Studio Cleaner.
If you would like to request a quote for your client or ask us to be involved in a styled wedding shoot please contact us through our contact page and we will be in touch within 3 working days. Alternatively, please call on either of our telephone numbers - 01242 539019 or 07828668932.
We love working within the wedding and hospitality world and as a little treat we would love to offer you and your team an exclusive 10% discount on delicious cakes and treats from our website shop. Please contact us for the code and share with your colleagues.
- Pia Cato launched the Vanilla Pod Bakery in 2009 at her kitchen table after winning a university business planning competition at the University of Gloucestershire. Her business idea, a Beautiful Elegant Tea Rooms that focused on serving Cupcakes and Champagne.
- In 2010 Pia moved into her first bakery and started creating cupcakes to sell at farmers markets across Gloucestershire.
- As the business grew she brought in a team of wonderful part time bakers to help. They expanded the product offering to also include chocolate brownies, traybakes and layer cakes.
- Customers started requesting Vanilla Pod Bakery cakes for birthdays and weddings.
- Pia found she loved working with wedding couples and creating their dream cakes.
- So in 2012 Pia decided to stop the markets and focus solely on wedding cakes, this also coincided with her moving the business back home.
- Following a 5 year stint at home, Pia once again moved the Vanilla Pod Bakery into a lovely premises in Fairview. The business by this time had out grown her home kitchen and needed some where larger to operate.
- Again the business grew and by the time lock down hit, Pia realised she needed to move into another premises.
- Que a move to the Vanilla Pod Bakery to Churchill Industrial Estate, where the Vanilla Pod Bakery now operates. Unit i, is a fantastic studio, it is light and airy. We welcome clients by appointment only for collections, consultations or cake experience events.
- The Vanilla Pod Bakery is a specialist cake bakery, mainly focusing on bespoke wedding cakes, but also creating delicious show stopping birthday cakes, cupcakes, chocolate brownies, biscuits as well as hosting cake experience events.
Schedule a meeting with Pia Cato, our Director & Founder to learn more about the Vanilla Pod Bakery and how we can work with you.
