Homemade cake layers - where to buy?

[ZaHaK]

Anyone know where I can buy homemade cake layers? That taste homemade and are crumbly etc.
I recently bought some from Nude Cakes and weren’t overly impressed with the quality.

Our local cake shop sells undecorated cakes in several flavours you can sandwich and ice yourself, do you have one near you that you could try?

Surely bake them? You might get some success with local bakers who do birthday cakes etc but I imagine their mark up comes with the decoration and they won't want to sell plain ones for people to do themselves. What do you want them for?

It's really not hard to make cake, just find a recipe and home make them yourself.

Um, from someone who bakes at home? Because it's in the name.

Ask on your local Facebook group, there are usually a number of home businesses that people will recommend.

Just make the cakes yourself in sandwich tins, it's easy.

i usually do make them myself but my oven is temperamental at the moment and my bakes aren’t rising. We are due to replace it so need something short term. I like making my children’s cake myself especially the decorating so would prefer to buy some cake layers.
Anyone used sweet success? www.sweetsuccess.uk.com

I've not used Sweetsuccess but what are they putting in sponge cakes that make them last for 5 weeks? Must be huge amounts of preservatives.

No, they look a bit shit to be honest
I don't recommend anyone buy from that site

A cake shouldn’t have a five week shelf life 😬

Just buy an ordinary Victoria sponge and do the external decoration yourself? Unless you've got something very special going on in the internal icing you surely only need the cake as a structure to base your decorating around?

Just buy a supermarket plain cake and ice it yourself

I’d look for an independent highstreet bakery, many take orders and can do plain bakes even if their more usual orders are full celebration cakes. I’ve recently ordered 100 plain fairy cakes to collect for a birthday party from a local indie to decorate myself.

Hi @ZaHaK- I was the same, loved making the kids birthday cakes. I’d be tempted to get some of the large traybake party sponges (Tesco/Sainsburys def do them), scrape the icing off and ‘make’ the cake from these. They can be stacked, cut to shape and decorated. If you want smaller or a round shape, get plain Victoria sponges and do the same.

M&S food ordering used to do plain sponges too - they were advertised as decorate yourself wedding cakes.

M&S naked cakes are lovely. Has some icing but ready for you to decorate however you want.

Anywhere online will be shite as there will
be a fucktonne of weird stuff in there so it can be kept and sent out.

Go on Facebook and look for ‘homemade cakes in ‘your area’ and support a small local business at the same time.

I would see what M and S have.

Anywhere that has a sufficient volume production line to advertise this on a website is going to be using nasty preservatives and industrial processes making a cake that doesn't taste home-made.

Post on your local facebook group asking if you can either borrow a neighbour's oven for half an hour or pay them to make the sponge for you. If you want it tasting home-made you need to home-make it.

Its almost as if OP is trying to get us to look at that website

I work in a shop and sometimes when I look at the date codes on some of the cakes I can only conclude that they are 90% nylon.

Indeed - business must be slow!

Buy a basic asda or Morrisons birthday cake and scrap the buttercream off and replace with your own decorations. Or make a fruit cake they don’t need to rise

Get a thermometer and test the temperature of your oven. Then, when you know the right setting on the dial corresponds to the right temperature, just bake.

Make sure it is an oven thermometer 😁