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The Best Birthday Cakes and Celebration Cakes | Tunbridge Wells
Order the best handmade and delicious birthday cakes, celebration cakes and wedding cakes in Tunbridge Wells and surrounding areas from our online shop. Collect our beautiful cakes made to order from scratch with the best ingredients, personalised for your special occasion, from our studio with free easy parking. Select from our different flavours and sizes and add your personal details in sugar craft free of charge, like age and name or special message. Our cakes are all carefully handmade to order to a high standard with handcrafted sugar and edible decorations and quality ingredients.
JELLYCAT EDIBLE BIRTHDAY CAKE


SAFARI BIRTHDAY CAKE


LUXURY BISCOFF & CARAMEL CAKE


CHERRIES VINTAGE HEART CAKE
(Choose from 5 different colour palettes and 5 delicious flavours!)


KOALA CAKE


FRESH BERRIES WHITE CHOCOLATE DRIP CAKE

UNICORN RAINBOW CAKE


Browse all of our beautiful buttercream cakes to personalise and order for collection here
Handcrafted and delicious Christmas cakes & Christmas cookies
Our beautiful collection of carefully handcrafted and delicious Christmas cakes and Christmas cookie gifts. Head to our online shop to pre order these specially selected Christmas treats for collection from our studio just outside Tunbridge Wells in Ticehurst (Wadhurst). Just select your collection day at the cart page.
Our cakes and cookies are carefully baked from scratch with quality ingredients in small batches for a real home made taste. They are then carefully hand decorated with original designs to make your festive occasions and Christmas giving extra special.
Nutcracker Christmas Cookie Gift Box


Our Vintage Christmas Cake


Chocolate & Salted Caramel Christmas Cupcakes Gift Box

Our Rudolf Christmas Cake

Find us here outside Tunbridge Wells where we have free parking right outside the studio

In celebration of opening our new online shop, enjoy 10% off your purchase from our Christmas collection with the code below 🎄♥️🎅

Celebration Cakes and Wedding Cakes Tunbridge Wells
The very best handmade, bespoke and delicious birthday cakes, celebration cakes and wedding cakes for Tunbridge Wells and surrounding area. Handmade fresh to order with quality ingredients and beautiful, original designs from our studio based in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
Take a look at some of our popular buttercream cake designs which can all be personalised for you with a name and age or message. Cakes can be ordered direct from our online shop and collected from our studio at your chosen date and time.
Make your celebration extra special with one of our cakes
JELLYCAT AMUSEABLES BIRTHDAY CAKE
Too cute, popular Jellycat cake with hand crafted sugar candle, strawberries and feet

PARTY RING VINTAGE CAKE
Pretty party cake with vintage piping, gold leaf, sugar plaque and pearls

SHELL BEACH CAKE
Hand crafted sugar beach shells and starfish with a white chocolate drip

TIERED VINTAGE HEART CAKE
Retro vibe vintage heart cake with cherries and vintage piping

PINK ROSES & PEARLS CAKE
Pink tones of marbled buttercream dressed with fresh roses, pearls and gold leaf

FRESH BERRIES DRIP CAKE
Dressed with fresh seasonal fruit on a smooth vanilla buttercream and chocolate ganache drip

NEUTRAL RAINBOW BIRTHDAY CAKE
Hand crafted sugar rainbow topper and clouds with bespoke matching name detail

PASTEL MERMAID CAKE
Pastel sugar shells and mermaid tails, pearls and sprinkles on this popular magical mermaid cake

CHOCOLATE LOADED DRIP CAKE
Ultimate chocolate cake loaded with chocolates, ganache drip and bespoke sugar topper

COSMIC GALAXY CAKE
Galaxy cake with night sky detailed buttercream and hand crafted sugar stars and moon with gold leaf detail

VINTAGE HEART WEDDING CAKE
A large vintage heart piped buttercream wedding cake with cherries. These come in 8″ 10″ and 12″ sizes

TIERED VINTAGE WEDDING CAKE
3 tiered piped vintage wedding cake with real cherries decoration

TWO TONE VINTAGE CAKE
Fun two colour round vintage cake with message. Suitable for lots of occasions – available in lots of colours

VINTAGE HEART CAKE WITH PEARLS & BOWS
Vintage piping details and pearls and sugar bows on this pretty vintage heart cake

RAINBOW BRIGHTS BIRTHDAY CAKE
Children love this beautiful, bright birthday cake with hand crafted sugar rainbow, clouds, personal topper and sprinkles

All of our cakes are made fresh to order with great attention to detail and the best ingredients.
Our bespoke buttercream cakes are from £70 for a 6″ cake. Pop over to our contact page or order direct from our online shop where you can personalise cakes with name/age or message and colour scheme, for collection from our studio in TN5 7HE
or call direct on 07702841686
Buttercream Wedding Cakes Tunbridge Wells | Kent & East Sussex
Our beautiful delicious and hand crafted buttercream wedding cakes made just outside Tunbridge Wells in our East Sussex studio in Ticehurst Wadhurst are the perfect choice if you are looking for a wedding cake for your wedding that is both a treat for the eyes and the taste buds.
From an elegant white buttercream wedding cake dressed with beautiful roses to a vintage piped wedding cake, our selection of delicious and balanced flavours are sure to tempt your guests and made fresh from scratch the week of your wedding with the best ingredients. Over ten years of wedding industry experience in providing our many clients with beautiful wedding cakes ensures you are in safe hands and why we are able to offer both buttercream and fondant covered wedding cakes. We also hand deliver and set up our wedding cakes at your venue with our personal hand delivery service to ensure everything is taken care of. You may also collect smaller wedding cakes and favours from our studio by appointment.
We can add beautiful fresh florals, edible gold leaf for a special touch, special palette painting techniques, different coloured tiers or silky ganache drips and fresh fruit. Perhaps a vintage piped buttercream wedding cake either heart shaped or round, the possibilities are endless.
Get in touch via our contact form with your date, venue details and guest number and we are very happy to chat about your options for your perfect wedding cake for you and your special day.
Three tiered Buttercream Wedding Cake
A three tiered cake with 6″ 8″ 10″ tiers with bespoke sage and ivory smooth buttercream decorated with gold leaf detail and bespoke florals. Madagascan Vanilla, strawberry & vanilla bean buttercream cake ~ Chocolate Truffle & chocolate ganache cake ~ Salted Caramel layer cake.

Semi Naked Buttercream Wedding Cake
A two tiered wedding cake with a smooth buttercream coating in a 6″ 8″ dressed with fresh florals and matching cupcakes with bespoke initials topper.

Naked Berries Drip Wedding Cake
Semi naked buttercream wedding cake with chocolate ganache drips and dressed with fresh seasonal fruit and berries.

Vintage Heart Cake
Vintage piped buttercream heart cake in bespoke colour palette with swags, bows and pearls.

Vintage Buttercream Wedding Cake
Vintage piped buttercream white wedding cake with ‘just married’ writing. Add some Maraschino cherries, bespoke colour palette or more tiers for extra impact. This large single tier serves 60 guests.

White Buttercream Wedding Cake & Roses
Elegant white buttercream wedding cake dressed with fresh roses.

To enquire about your wedding cake and to check your date, just fill in our contact form with your venue location, date and number of guests to serve and we will contact you. It is helpful to give us information such as the general style of wedding cake you might like and also a rough idea of budget although this is not essential.
Buttercream Cakes Tunbridge Wells | East Sussex Kent
Lovingly hand made from scratch with only the best ingredients, some beautiful and delicious buttercream cakes for Spring. From vintage piped buttercream birthday cakes to an adorable Easter cake sharing board, we make all of our beautiful bespoke hand crafted cakes with lots of love and attention to detail.
EASTER BUNNY CAKE PLATTER
Perfect for the Easter lunch table, this vintage buttercream cake features cute decorated Easter bunnies and carrot butter biscuits, spring sugar flowers and little chocolate drip eggs. The design featured our mini buttercream cake perfect for just the family and was available in our popular madagascan vanilla & strawberry or chocolate truffle & chocolate ganache inside.

PALETTE PAINTED BUTTERCREAM CAKE
Beautiful palette knife hand painted buttercream floral cake design dressed with fresh roses in a large 10″ cake design for a stylish gathering. Here in an earthy colour way, you can create a whole different look with different colour choices too.

ROSES VINTAGE BUTTERCREAM CAKE
Popular vintage piped buttercream cake with a Bridgerton vibe in pretty pinks, swags and hand piped roses and rose buds detail.

FLOWERS VINTAGE BUTTERCREAM CAKE
A soft colour palette for this new buttercream cake design with edible flowers detail. Why not treat them with flowers they can eat!

Vintage Buttercream Heart Cakes | Valentine’s Edition
Our vintage buttercream heart cakes! Lovingly created from our east sussex studio just outside Tunbridge Wells, vintage piped buttercream cakes have a special Valentine’s make over. This gorgeous piped buttercream heart cake in a red and pink colour way, dressed with little vintage pink bows comes with either a special message or love hearts detail. Inside is a delicious chocolate chip layer cake with a raspberry buttercream and raspberry compote filling.

Love heart cookies individually wrapped with a vintage striped ribbon bow makes the perfect gift. Cookies are over 4″ across and the Valentine’s vintage heart cake is in our 6″ version.
Love Heart Iced Cookies

Love Hearts Vintage Buttercream Cake


Bespoke Wedding Cakes East Sussex & Kent
Hand crafted, beautiful bespoke wedding cakes using a decade of professional industry and cake design experience is what we create at Little Boutique Bakery. Whether you are looking for an elegant, fondant iced wedding cake with intricate details and hand crafted sugar flowers or a more relaxed buttercream wedding cake dressed with fresh blooms, we can cater to your requirements.
We can provide full delivery and set up services for your wedding cake to many venues in east sussex and kent, giving you full peace of mind that everything is taken care of. We create everything by hand from scratch using quality ingredients including real butter, free range eggs, fine grade flour and organic preserves and no preservatives. We also create delicious gluten free cakes if required.
Jennie has over the years created many, many cakes for all types of clients, briefs and venues. We have been lucky enough to appear in national and international press and publications in print and online with our creations too, including Tatler, Elle, Condé Nast Brides, You & Your Wedding,The Knot, Wedding and Sweet magazine, Love My Dress, Wedding Sparrow, Rock My Wedding, Ruffled, Nu Bride, Bridal Musings and 100 Layer Cake.
Our bespoke cakes and sugar craft featuring in a high jewellery shoot for Tatler


“We just wanted to say the hugest thank you to you for designing and producing the most amazing, beautiful & tastiest wedding cake myself, Michael and most possibly all of our guests, have ever seen. The smell whilst we stood beside it to cut was something else. I didn’t want it to be cut but I wasn’t to be disappointed as all flavours were exceptional. Thank you so much Jennie!!!” Charlotte & Michael, Ashdown Park Hotel East Sussex.
Rose Abundance Wedding Cake
A beautiful buttercream three tiered wedding cake dressed with gorgeous pink and ivory fresh roses, olive foliage and some edible gold leaf detail. We can liaise with your florist regarding your wedding flowers and dress your wedding cake at the venue for you or provide our own flowers for you and your cake design.

Roses & Ferns Wedding Cake
An elegant four tiered wedding cake iced in an ivory fondant with hand crafted white sugar roses and sugar ferns details around the cake tipped with edible silver leaf.

Peony & Wild Gold Wedding Cake
A lovely design featuring a large sugar peony and wired sugar gold lustred foliage with edible gold leaf details on the cake tiers with delicate piped pearls. Created for a recent wedding at Wadhurst Castle.
“The cake was so stunning and delicious. Thank you so much for your creation!” Lainey & Brandon

Pink Rose & Hydrangea Wedding Cake
This gorgeous design seen here in a large four tiered wedding cake has hand crafted blush pink sugar roses and hydrangea blossoms on a blush pink iced wedding cake with our signature sugar pearl studs detail and a hand painted monogram plaque. Seen here set up at the lovely George in Rye Hotel in East Sussex.

Hydrangea & Pearls Wedding Cake
This design has become something of a classic. Jennie first designed this wedding cake a few years ago and its beautiful and elegant design and craftsmanship stands the test of time. Usually crafted in a bridal white with hand cut hydrangea petals and hundreds of hand piped royal icing pearls. You can choose to add your personal sugar monogram plaque or just as lovely without. Set up here at the beautiful Wadhurst Castle this year. This design also works well in our demi design with two tiers for a more intimate celebration.

Naked Berries Buttercream Wedding Cake
A naked buttercream wedding cake for a relaxed celebration. Delicious layered wedding cake dressed with fresh flowers and fresh fruit. Set up at The Bell in Ticehurst just down the road from our studio.

We can also create other sweet items to create a dessert table display like matching cupcakes, iced biscuits, cakesicles, brownies or tiers of cupcakes. We also make beautiful iced biscuit wedding favours to match your cake or in another bespoke design.

We will be holding an open tasting soon so you can preorder and collect some of our delicious cake samples from the studio if you wish. Do let us know if you would like more information.
If you would like to chat about your wedding and cake requirements and have your wedding venue booked, please do fill out the contact form and we will be in touch shortly and can’t wait to hear from you!
The Best Designer Cakes East Sussex Kent | Tunbridge Wells Cake Designer
The best birthday and celebration cakes by widely published Tunbridge Wells cake artist Jennie, bought to you from our studio bakery near the Kent and East Sussex border in Ticehurst, Wadhurst. Every cake and confection we make is made from scratch with the best ingredients and a decade of cake design experience. Be it a birthday, baby shower, anniversary, wedding, christening or corporate event, our custom cakes and confections are guaranteed to make your event special.
Take a look at some lovely new designs created by Jennie at our boutique bakery.
Ballerina Birthday Cake
A beautiful two tiered custom birthday party cake in a pale ballet pink icing with hand crafted ballerina sugar slippers, pink sugar ruffles and gold lustred bows with a personal name plaque. Matching ballet tutu iced biscuit favours created for the guests.

Groovy Birthday Cake
A popular party theme the Groovy chick birthday. Peace sign, daisies, party balloons and a groovy VW customised van. With matching daisy flower iced biscuit favours for guests.

Daisy Flower Favours

Christmas Nutcracker Cake
Sugar handpainted nutcrackers feature on this seasonal themed nutcracker cake with candy canes, sugar presents and Christmas trees.

Peter Rabbit Birthday Cake
The always loveable Peter Rabbit theme with a decorative floral handcrafted sugar number topper, little picket fence, foxgloves, carrots and Peter Rabbit.

Carousel Funfair Cake
This striking showstopper cake created for a corporate event in Tunbridge Wells celebrating 30 years in business includes a handcrafted carousel with sugar horses and funfair details with ice cream and pop corn, funfair ride and hot air balloons.

Golf Birthday Cake
This fun custom two tiered birthday cake features golf course details and a giant golf ball topper with birthday flag for the serious golf lover.

Magical Mermaid Cake
From our buttercream range of cakes, this magical mermaid birthday cake is just that – rather magical. With an ombre buttercream and sugar starfish, urchins, shells, seahorse and mermaid tails in lovely pastels hues with our signature birthday topper and lots of sprinkles and edible sparkle.

Pokemon Party Cake
From our character buttercream drip cakes, a fun cake with a chocolate drip and sugar Pokemon character topper and party balloons, birthday age topper, sprinkles and chocolate popsicles.

Arctic Winter Wonderland Cake
From our designer cookie cake range, this custom christening cake is an Arctic winter wonderland featuring cute hand crafted penguins and polar bear characters in a snowy scene with snow capped trees, snowflakes and igloo.

Safari Birthday Cake
Our Safari themed design from our cookie cake range with adorable hand painted giraffe and elephant for a special first birthday.


We are based in TN5 7HE in Ticehurst. You can collect your bespoke order from us packaged in our lovely cake boxes. We have parking right outside the studio. We can also offer delivery within 15 miles of our location dependant on availability.
We are very excited for what is happening in 2023 as we are also back with your lovely weddings and finally we will be bringing you our online shop too with lots of lovely new products. Keep an eye on our social media for updates.
To book your bespoke cakes and confections just fill out our contact form for availability or call us direct on 07702841686 for a chat about your event and order.
Wedding Cake Maker East Sussex | Winter Wedding Cakes
Little Boutique Bakery based in East Sussex just south east of Tunbridge Wells, offer full delivery and set up of your wedding cake within 20 miles of our studio in Ticehurst. There are many different styles of winter wedding cakes to suit you and your venue, from a relaxed cosy pub venue to a more formal, grand affair. Winter wedding cakes often have the addition of deep berry tones, earthy greens or touches of gold and silver metallics. Equally fitting is an all white wedding cake playing on texture details which can be very striking for a winter wedding. Covered in smooth buttercream or more traditional sugar paste, artfully dressed with foliage and fruit or hand crafted sugar work, there are lots of options.
Berry & Gold Buttercream Cake
This lovely delicious looking cake is covered in a smooth madagascan vanilla buttercream and touches of edible gold leaf. Incorporating the deep berry tones of autumn, winter and the holiday season, dressed with jewel toned fresh roses and fruit. If you could smell this cake! The top tier was our popular Madagascan Vanilla layer cake with strawberry preserve & vanilla bean buttercream. The bottom tier was our Chocolate Truffle layer cake with chocolate ganache & salted caramel buttercream.

Winter Wedding Cake
A classic winter wedding cake. Winter white fondant icing dressed with seasonal cranberries, pinecones, pine and a natural burlap trim finishes this seasonal cake design. Set up at Hotel du Vin in Tunbridge Wells.

Elegant Ivory Rose Wedding Cake
A traditional elegant wedding cake in bridal ivory fondant icing and delicate appliqué sugar details, hand piped pearls and topped with sugar roses. Finished with satin ribbon and bow. All ivory or all white wedding cakes are always fitting for a winter wedding. Choose either hand crafted sugar roses or dressed with fresh roses.

Christmas Winter Wedding Cake
A luxury show stopper wedding cake for the holiday season. Four tiers of smooth bridal ivory fondant with gold lustred details, delicate handcrafted ivory sugar roses, berries and gold leaves. A bespoke hand painted monogram plaque with hand piped pearls and gold lustred sugar bows details with piped pearl swags. Created for a wedding at Benenden School in Cranbrook.

Hydrangea & Pearls Wedding Cake
A striking luxury wedding cake in all white in a bridal white smooth fondant icing covered in hand crafted tumbling sugar hydrangea blossoms all hand cut, rolled, piped and in this design were then edged in edible silver leaf details. Hand piping of royal icing pearls cover the exposed icing to add more texture. Set up here at Claridges, London.

If you would like to chat about your wedding cake requirements, design and flavours etc. do fill out our contact form with your details, date and venue and Jennie will be happy to chat through ideas with you.
Beautiful Delicious Bespoke Cakes | East Sussex and Kent Birthday Cakes
Our beautiful and delicious bespoke cakes are perfect for any occasion. Have a look at some of our buttercream cake designs which are perfect for birthdays and other celebrations. Baked to order from scratch with real butter and quality ingredients, lots of love and experienced hands for a professional and elegant finish.
We are based from our little bakery and studio in the pretty village of Ticehurst near the Kent and East Sussex border just outside Tunbridge Wells. You are always welcome to collect your finished creations from our appointment only studio in a lovely packaged cake box. We can also offer delivery depending on availability.
Pastel Rainbow Meringue Cake
A popular cake with pretty pastel rainbow buttercream and a hand made perfect sugar rainbow topper, dressed with a cascade of handmade pastel meringues and marshmallows.

Deluxe Loaded Chocolate Cake
For the real chocolate lover, our deluxe loaded chocolate cake with a layered chocolate truffle sponge with a real chocolate ganache filling covered in a smooth vanilla buttercream, topped with a dark chocolate ganache drip and loaded with various chocolate decorations, sprinkles and touches of gold. Add our handcrafted bespoke sugar plaque topper.

Sweetie Birthday Cake
Like a kid in a candy shop! Our loaded sweetie birthday cake is just that – a delicious cake covered in buttercream, chocolate ganache drip and spilling over with candy. Available in bright primary colours version or a pastel coloured version.

Rainbow Meringue Unicorn Cake
Our pastel rainbow meringue design with pastel rainbow buttercream but this time with the sweetest handmade sugar Unicorn topper.

Gruffalo Storybook Cake
Do they have a favourite book or character? This cake design features the Gruffalo and characters all made in edible carefully handcut sugar pieces, bringing a book to life on a delicious, special birthday cake.

Number Birthday Cake
Our bespoke number cakes can be dressed with themed decorated biscuits, meringues, chocolates, fresh flowers – endless possibilities!

Pink Marble Rose Cake
Marbled pink tones of buttercream with a blush white chocolate drip dressed with a scatter of edible pearls, beautiful pink roses and a handmade blush pearlised topper.

Roses, Pearls and Gold Cake
A beautiful cake with a soft blush and rose marbled buttercream, studded with edible pearls and flakes of gold leaf. Dressed with fresh roses and a bespoke sugar name and age topper in gold lustre. Perfect for someone special.

Two Tone Roses Cake
Throwing a party and need a beautiful centre piece cake to serve a crowd or for your wedding? These tiered buttercream beauties artfully dressed with fresh roses are perfect . Chat to us about your colour scheme and servings required.

A stunning cake in a marbled two tone effect buttercream dressed with beautiful pink roses.

Cake flavours to choose from are all made fresh and from scratch
. Madagascan Vanilla Layer Cake (smooth bourbon vanilla) layered with either a strawberry or seedless raspberry preserve & a vanilla bean buttercream.
. Zesty Lemon Layer Cake (moist with natural citrus zest) layered with an organic lemon curd & a vanilla bean buttercream.
. Zesty Lemon Layer Cake (moist with natural citrus zest) layered with a seedless raspberry preserve & a lemon zest buttercream.
. Orange Layer Cake layered will a valencian orange zest buttercream and a tangerine preserve.
. Chocolate Truffle Layer Cake layered with a chocolate ganache buttercream.
. Chocolate Truffle Layer Cake layered with a dark chocolate ganache and morello cherry preserve.
Our buttercream cake designs are usually priced around £80 for a decorated 6″ cake and £120 for an 8″ cake*. Our cakes are generous with four layers of your chosen sponge and three layers of filling inside.
Do fill in our contact form with your details to arrange your booking or have a chat on 07702841686.
*please note these prices do not apply for fondant covered bespoke cakes in our themed cookie cakes range or with modelled sugar figures, sugar flowers etc.

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