About Our Birthday CakesTo make a birthday celebration an extra special occasion, send one of our wonderful handmade Add a Finishing Touch GiftYou can even personalise your Birthday Cake gift by adding one of our special Finishing Touch gifts at the checkout. Gifts such as chocolates, bears, a birthday chocolate lolly, birthday balloons and much more. Carefully select treats are available to add often at discounted or reduced rates.
 Your Gift Card IncludedAll our Birthday Cake gifts are delivered with one of our A6 folded high gloss gift cards complete with your personal birthday message of up to 150 characters. Also include is a free vase and free UK wide delivery. If you prefer you can upgrade to a full size A4 folded card at additional cost during the online shopping process.
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Belgian Chocolate Birthday Cake
*Free UK Delivery Mon-Sat
*Free Gift Card & Message
*£5 OFF Ordering Online
Our own handmade and decorated chocolate birthday cake. Min 560g. A delicious and original gift.
This is a Bay Tree Farm birthday cake, made in small batches and exclusively available from us. Our recipe uses natural ingredients, with real chocolate in the cake base along with Devon laid free range farm eggs and fresh Devon churned butter. Each birthday cake is finished by hand with a thick Belgian chocolate ganache topping. Serves 8-10. Candles included but may vary. Contains pecan nuts.
No GM
No hydrogenated fats
No Palm Oil
No artificial additives
Contains nuts
Read our Ingredients Statement prior to ordering if you're sending to a diabetic or allergy sufferer.
Delivery is free to any UK home or business delivery address 6 days a week. Simply select the delivery date during the online order process. Order before 4.30pm for next day delivery. Orders are delivered by 1pm (Highlands Island & Remote by 5.30pm)
About our Birthday Cakes
A birthday is a special occasion but even more so when it is the celebration of the birth of someone close or dear to you. Now with our birthday cake delivery service, an original way of sending a delicious birthday gift. We can delivery a delicious birthday cake fast and to any part of the UK with your personal 'happy birthday' message.
Our birthday cakes can be delivered for you UK wide to any home or business address, as you wish. Order by 4.30pm and we can even deliver as fast as next day. Your birthday cake delivery will be carefully packed to order by our staff and dispatched by over night courier for delivery on the exact date you require and we'll even include your birthday message on one of our luxury, high gloss finished A6 folded birthday cards at no extra cost. Having said that, we also offer a range of full size, high gloss finished A4 folded birthday cards at additional cost, available at the checkout.
Our Birthday cakes are available in various sizes each cake is sold by weight with approximate number of portions indicated. Portion size indicated in our product description are for a 'healthy' sized amount taking in to account the calories! and that we should all eat a balanced diet.
Our birthday cakes are made to traditional recipes, handmade in small batches giving a fresh 'homebaked' cake. The ingredients used in our cakes are, just what you would use at home. No additives, nothing artificial, just the finest and freshest ingredients including Devon freerange farm eggs and local churned fresh butter.
We do accept telephone orders for birthday cake delivery although by phone our free delivery option is not available and you won't be able to take advantage of our lower online prices. As we are an online business we don't employ dedicated order taking staff, ordering online you help us to keep our costs low and with that we pass on some of the savings in a lower purchase price and free delivery. FREE DELIVERY is available for our great birthday cakes and birthday cake hampers ordered online.
When it comes to a birthday, its great to be envolved with the celebrations. If you can't be there to celebrate their special day, then this is where our birthday cakes, birthday hampers and gifts are perfect to. Our top selling birthday cakes include Belgian Chocolate Birthday Cake, Birthday Cake Sponge Blue, Birthday Cake Sponge Pink and Football Birthday Cake Sponge. Other great products that may also be of interested in include; Birthday Cake Hampers, Birthday Balloons, Birthday Flowers Birthday Gifts Birthday Chocolate Hampers and Birthday Chocolates
History of the Birthday Cake
The birthday cake has been an important part of the birthday celebrations in Western cultures since the middle of the 1800's. Certain rituals and traditions, such as singing of birthday songs, associated with birthday cakes are common to many Western cultures. The Western tradition of adding lit candles to the top of a birthday cake originates in 18th century Germany. However, the intertwining of cakes and birthday celebrations stretch back to the Ancient Romans. The development of the birthday cake has followed the development of culinary and confectionery advancement. As this technology improved, decorations gained importance and the appearance of birthday cakes became as important as its taste. While throughout most of Western history, these elaborate cakes in general were the privilege of the wealthy, birthday cakes are nowadays common to most Western birthday celebrations. Around the world many variations on the birthday cake, or rather the birthday pastry or sweets, exist.
In classical Roman culture, 'cakes' were served at special birthdays. However, these cakes did not resemble contemporary cakes in the least. They were simply flat rounds made with flour containing nuts, leavened with yeast, and sweetened with honey. In early Europe, the words for cake and bread were virtually interchangeable; the only difference being that cakes were sweet while bread was not.
The cake, or sometimes a pastry or dessert, is served to a person on his or her birthday. In North America, the birthday person is traditionally the first served, though this tradition is left to the discretion of the host and is not an invariable norm. In contemporary Western cultures, two rituals are prominent: the singing of the traditional birthday song and the blowing out of candles decorating the cake by the birthday person.
The service of a birthday cake is often preceded by the singing of Happy Birthday to You in English speaking countries, or an equivalent birthday song. In fact, the phrase "Happy Birthday" did not appear on birthday cakes until the song Happy Birthday to You was popularized in the early 1900s. Variations on birthday song rituals exist. For example, in New Zealand, the Happy Birthday to You is sung out of tune and is followed by clapping, once for each year of the persons life and once more for good luck. In Uruguay, party guests touch the birthday person's shoulder or head following the singing of Happy Birthday to You.
The birthday cake is often decorated with taper candles which are secured with special holders. In North America, the number of candles is equal to the age of the individual whose birthday it is. Traditionally the birthday person makes a private wish, which will be realized if all the candles are extinguished in a single breath.
This is what some of our customers say
Thank you for your service, progress reports and the delivery being on time.
Mum was surprised and ever so pleased with the blooms that arrived on her door step to celebrate Mothers Day (Australia).
I look forward to placing further orders with you in the future.
Yours sincerely
Denise Brown
Thank you for your service, progress reports and the delivery being on time.
Mum was surprised and ever so pleased with the blooms that arrived on her door step to celebrate Mothers Day (Australia).
I look forward to placing further orders with you in the future.
Yours sincerely
Denise Brown
