Frequently Asked Questions
What goes into your cakes ? It took a long time to get our ingredients right, and as you'll see from our Guestbook, customers love our gorgeous sponge. We buy our eggs from our local farm shop, the girls (and guy) will tell you about our cakes. We select the finest ingredients, we use real vanilla extract, Fairtrade Cocoa and golden caster sugar. We lovingly hand mix our cakes and once cooled fill generously with strawberry jam and homemade buttercream.
Will my cake be a Victoria Sandwich Cake? Typically our cakes are Victoria Sponge Cakes flavoured with Madagascan vanilla extract and sandwiched with strawberry jam and homemade vanilla buttercream. You can choose a chocolate version with chocolate fudge filling for a few pounds more. We can offer additional flavours too, please ask for more details.
Do you do fruit cakes? Absolutely ! Just ask us for a price. Most of our designs can be made from a fruit cake, and if you'd like to know how it tastes, just see John & Cathie's comments on the Guestbook.
I'd like you to do my cake but I can't quite see the cake I'd like? No problem, our website is simply a showcase of our cakes so far. Some of our customers find exactly what they want here, some customers have a completely uniquely designed cake just for them. Tell us your ideas and we'll help design your perfect cake.
Do you do any children's characters? Yes we do. Even if you can't see the character cake you want on our website, ask us and we'll forward some more photos based on your theme ! Whatever your little one's into I'm sure we can make you a cake to delight them and you !
I've seen my perfect cake but it's on someone else's website. Could you do it? Whilst we love creating our own unique cakes, we appreciate that a great cake is a great cake. We have in the past recreated many great cakes in our own unique way so please give us a call.
Help ! I haven't a clue what style or size of cake to go for. Don't worry, leave it to us. Just give us a call and with our friendly and helpful service, we will work out some ideas and designs based on who the cakes for and the size of your party. We can bake cakes for 20 people or 80 as a single tier and for many more as larger tiered cakes so no matter how intimate or grand your occasion, we can make the perfect sized cake for you.
I'm interested in a wedding cake, how far in advance do we need to book ?! In order to guarantee we can help, please allow at least six months notice. We can often help if your weddings a lot sooner but to ensure we can fit you in please give us as much notice as possible.
How do I order a cake? It's really easy, you can call us on 01827 894902, email us at cakesbyrebecca@aol.com or pop into the shop at 29 Bridge Street, Polesworth, Tamworth. Once we''ve established exactly what you want we'll confirm your cake order, collection details and price. We normally ask for a 50% deposit on celebration cakes over sixty pounds. Orders under sixty pounds would be paid in full on placing your order. Wedding cakes deposits are a third of total amount.
Where are you based? Cakes by Rebecca are based at 29 Bridge Street, Polesworth, Tamworth. We are registered with North Warwickshire Environmental Health Department as a food based business.
How long will my cake last? As our sponge cakes are freshly baked to order, never frozen and with no added preservatives, please enjoy our cakes at their best within 5 days of collection.
Why one of Rebecca's cakes?
Baked fresh just for you, individually decorated and lovingly handled, each one as important as the next, because not only should it look good it should taste just perfect too. And the best part.... why the price of course !
