Cake Boxes for Your Bakery

Present your bakery's cakes and confections in signature bakery packaging
By Andrea Townsley Bakery boxes come in all shapes and sizes for all kinds of creations. Why not have your pastry boxes serve as walking advertisements for your bakery? It's easy to design cake boxes with your logo or a distinctive pattern to provide effective advertising.

Even if the only detail you add to a plain white cake box is a sticker with your logo on it, people will recognize it. Or, you can take the opposite approach and get custom boxes printed up from a cake box supplier. Whatever you decide, here are some tips to help you out:

1. Buy white or clear cake boxes in bulk and spice them up with a sticker or stamp displaying your name or logo.

2. Find attractive bakery packaging to box up cupcakes for your customers. You might even want to find cupcake boxes with party themes, like Barbie for little girls.

3. Have cake boxes on hand for packing up pastries. Pastries are popular among the business crowd, and oftentimes, executives will buy breakfast for everyone attending the morning meeting.

Buy cake boxes by the case to keep costs down

Any time you buy in bulk you're saving your business some money. Order some simple white cake boxes to adorn with your logo or choose a specific color or accent stripe to be your signature package.
Try:  Purchase cake boxes and cake pads from Uline Shipping Supplies, which offers plain boxes as well as boxes with windows. Choose from a large selection of colors and sizes at PAPER MART.

Prevent frosting mishaps with special cupcake packaging

Cupcakes pose a unique challenge since they topple over easily. Taking one quick turn in a car on the way to a party can pretty much guarantee destroyed frosting and unhappy party guests. This won't happen if you use cupcake packaging. Slap a sticker with your logo on the box and you're ready to roll.
Try:  Try out the box inserts from Big River Packaging that keep cupcakes from bumping into each other. Several different packaging ideas are offered by Sugarcraft, including plastic cupcake trays and decorative boxes.

Stock pastry boxes to cater to the morning breakfast crowd

On their way to work, sometimes people will stop off and get a pastry and coffee for themselves. But other times, it's their turn to bring food for the entire staff at their office. It's wasteful and unprofessional to send a customer on his way toting ten small paper bags, each containing one pastry. You can avoid this by buying larger pastry boxes, ranging from flat boxes for bear claws to contoured plastic packages for donuts.
Try:  Pack muffins, donuts and cinnamon rolls into the plastic disposable boxes offered by Plastic Container City. Get your pastry boxes custom printed at First Impressions Printing; they offer hot stamping in metallic and matte colors as well as ink imprinting.

• Due to the size of wedding cakes, they must be moved in special wedding cake boxes. These boxes are sturdy and prevent the cake from sliding around and getting ruined during transport.