Total Food Services

Order Online Profit Calculator

Loving Your Cakes

Back

Mint Chocolate Chip Pre-portioned cake

 

Article sponsored by The Handmade Cake Company

Because our cakes are made by hand, just as you would at home, they will benefit from a bit of love and affection so that they stay at their best until they are eaten.

We don’t add preservatives, so keep the cakes frozen until you need them, then defrost them overnight for use the next morning.

Here are some tips based on what has worked for us...

Waking them up

  • If they have soft icings, please remove their wrappers before defrosting to prevent sticky incidents.
  • When we pre-cut the traybakes, we do not cut through to the packaging. So do run a sharp knife through our incisions to ensure a clean break.
  • Cakes absolutely love to be cut with a hot knife. Run a knife under a hot tap, dry it and cut quickly.
  • Out of their packaging, at room temperature, our round cakes need 4-6 hours to thaw and the traybakes take 2 hours (see individual cakes for details).

Putting them to bed

  • At the end of each day, cover the cakes in an airtight dome and keep in a cool place.
  • If refrigerated, put in a sealed container to prevent drying out.
  • All our cakes will keep going for a minimum of 2 days if treated with kindness and some for much longer than that. The truth is that it shouldn’t take days to tempt your customers to eat a cake - let us know if it does.

Please do

  • Show your cakes off at room temperature. They get thirsty in a fridge so must be covered up if you have to use one.
  • Put your cakes on display with several pieces together. Cakes look lonely on their own and don’t sell. A domino effect works well for traybakes with the slices leaning on each other. Round cakes work best displayed as a whole cake.
  • Place cakes at eye level on your display counter.
  • Use neutral colours on display items and let the cakes do the talking. Strong or multi-coloured plates will distract your customers from the cake.

Please don't

  • Show them off in a chilled cabinet uncovered. They will dry out and look very sad.
  • Put the cakes too near a source of heat. They’ll “glow” and deteriorate.
  • Place cakes at eye level on your display counter.
  • Ignore your cakes all day – they do need pepping up from time to time.
Caramel Shortcake
 

Caramel Shotcake

A sticky caramel sandwiched between a buttery shortcake base and a milk chocolate coating.

Order Now

 

 
Carrot Cake
 

Gluten Free Carrot Cake

A moist, gluten free carrot and walnut sponge with sultanas and natural orange oil, covered and filled with a soft cream cheese icing and decorated with nibbed walnuts.

Order Now

 

 
Blackcurrant Crumble Traybake
 

Vegan & Gluten Free Blackcurrant Crumble Traybake

A vegan and gluten free slice sandwiching a sticky blackcurrant jam between a shortcake base and crunchy, oaty crumble.

Order Now

 

 
Mint Chocolate Chip Cake
 

Gluten Free Mint Chocolate Chip Cake

A moist, gluten free, chocolate sponge filled with a mint buttercream studded with milk chocolate chips and topped with mint buttercream and sprinkled with milk chocolate flakes.

Order Now

 

 

 

See the full range

Thank you for contacting us.
We will reply to you in the next 2 working days.

Brochures and Catalogues

Follow Us