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Award winning luxury wedding cakes - both sweet and savoury
Cocoa & Whey Cakes Pricing & Costs
From £350
All our cakes, both sweet and savoury, are custom made and we use high quality ingredients for everything we create. Prices start from £350 for buttercream style cakes and smaller ganache and fondant designs. Elaborate designs in fondant, buttercream and ganache start from £500. Larger and fine art designs start from £650. Wedding cakes are usually priced per portion so please let us know your guest numbers and we can discuss design and flavour options with you and provide a rough guide price before you book your wedding date. We provide a full design service and will hold your personal design appointment, usually via Zoom, once your date is firmly booked with a deposit of £100. We can offer a choice of designs and sizes made especially for you together with a sketch/sketches of your wedding cake design so you can be confident in your final choice. If you are not sure what you want but have a particular budget in mind for your wedding then please let us know and we can guide you on choices.
Two-tier cake
From
£350
Buttercream or semi-naked design with fresh flowers for 60 guests
What's included
Simple semi-naked and buttercream designs with fresh flowers. The price includes full design consultation via Zoom, design sketch, liaising with your florist, and venue.
Cocoa & Whey Cakes Details

Dietary Options

Dairy-Free
Vegan Catering
Vegetarian
Gluten-Free

General Services

Tastings
Last-Minute Orders
Tiered Cakes
Cupcakes
Delivery
Treats and Favours
Bespoke Design
Pre-Wedding Consultation
Set-Up
Macarons
Brownies
Cocoa & Whey Cakes Full Description
Cocoa & Whey Cakes is an award winning luxury wedding cake company based near the beautiful village of Farnham near Blandford in Dorset. Winner of The Couples Choice Award at The English Wedding Awards 2024, we make custom wedding cakes that are truly delicious as well as beautifully elegant. We make sweet wedding cakes in fondant, buttercream and ganache and also unique savoury wedding cakes in semi-naked and "buttercream style" designs. We also make all sorts of cupcakes, including floral piped designs, in sweet and savoury as well as creating delicious dessert tables, savoury tables, sweet and savoury combos and macarons, cookies and fancies. We are based on the Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire borders and provide a full delivery service to make sure your wedding cake looks amazing on your wedding day. We liaise with your venue, florist and anyone else you need us to, in order to ensure you can relax and just enjoy yourself! We offer complimentary design appointments at convenient times to suit and online design appointments via zoom. We also offer samples by post which we have been told by clients are "insanely delicious!" We are delighted to be recommended by wonderful venues and other wedding professionals - "just had to message to say hands down the best wedding cake I've ever had!! And trust me we've tried our fair share of wedding cake over the last 10 years".

Personal Message from the Manager

Name of Wedding Contact: Penelope Hurst
Congratulations! What an exciting time you have ahead of you! We're here to find out just what you want in "cake" terms, both in taste and design, so you can delight yourselves and your guests and make your celebration even more amazing! Whether you want a beautiful, elegant wedding cake; sweet and savoury "dessert" table or a host of macarons and mini desserts, we can help guide you and explore options together.

Experience

Year Business Was Established
2016
No. of Weddings Hosted
More than 50
Public Liability Insurance
Yes
No. of People In Team
1
Reviews
(20)
Cara & Tim
Happy couple married in July
August 2022
Fantastic wedding cake
Penelope created the most perfect cake for our wedding day. She took the time to listen to our needs to make sure the cake was everything we wanted. What really made the cake special to us was that Penelope kindly created a sugared figurine of our dog to go on the cake as well, I was amazed at how realistic it looked! Every tier of the cake was a different flavour and each one was absolutely delicious - safe to say there wasn’t very much left by the end of the night! I can’t recommend Cocoa & Whey cakes enough! Thank you Penelope 😊
Mr and Mrs Daley
Happy couple married in March
April 2022
Wedding 19th March 2022
We met Penelope at a wedding fair at our venue The Winchester Hotel & Spa in March 2020. We had originally booked our wedding for March 2021, however this got delayed by a year to March 2022. When we postponed, Penelope was instantly happy to change the date we had booked with her at no additional cost which we were so grateful for and reassured by! Penelope worked so hard with us on creating our dream cake for 2 years, even putting up with my cake idea powerpoints! She provided us with beautiful 2 lots of postal cake samples as covid made it impossible to do this in person and was so patient with us when we struggled to decide as all her flavours are incredible! Eventually we decided on Raspberry Champagne, Zesty Lemon and Chocolate Fudge, all of which tasted incredible and got lots of compliments from all our guests and suppliers. Our cake was far more beautiful than we'd ever imagined it to be and we're both so grateful to Penelope and Cocoa & Whey Cakes.
Katie Haines
Happy couple married in September
September 2021
Absolutely incredible
We booked Penelope for our wedding in September 2021 having met her at many fayres in Winchester, and falling in love with her cakes. Penelope was a delight to work with throughout the whole process, and was wonderful in pulling together our thoughts and ideas. We knew that the final product would be lovely, but it was much more beautiful in person than we thought! All our guests marvelled over it, especially the figures of our cats(!), and everyone commented on how delicious the different layers were. Thank you Penelope for everything. We couldn’t recommend Cocoa and Whey more.
Lori & Luke
Happy couple married in October
October 2019
It was absolutely stunning and delicious
I just wanted to say such a big THANK YOU for the cake you made for our wedding!! It was absolutely stunning and delicious. Everyone was praising it. Thank you again for helping to make our wedding so special and amazing.
Simon & Lauren
Happy couple married in October
October 2019
A true pleasure from start to finish
We could not have been happier with the cake you made for us! We’d told almost everyone we knew just how excited we were about your cake -having been so impressed when we tasted the samples at your house! - so we were over the moon that our actual cake tasted just as amazing, if not more so! And it looked absolutely incredible too - exactly as we had imagined it, based on your initial design drawings. All in all, we could not have been happier with the presentation or taste of the cake. :) Also, we’d like to mention just how professional you’ve been throughout the process - especially appreciated on the wedding day itself, where the cake just seemed to appear out of thin air and was perfect in every way. All wedding vendors could take a leaf out of your book, I’d say. Again, thank you so much for all you have done for us. A true pleasure from start to finish, and we hope we have cause to order another (non-wedding) cake from you one day!
Chris and Amanda
Happy couple married in August
August 2019
It looked and tasted just as I hoped it would...
thank you so much for the wonderful job you did on our wedding cake, it looked and tasted just as I hoped it would, we had many many compliments. The day went perfectly to then be only enhanced even more in the evening with the cake cutting. Thankyou again
Kayleigh and Jen
Happy couple married in August
August 2019
Thank you so much for the beautiful and very delic
Thank you so much for the beautiful and very delicious cake. It was exactly what we were hoping for. We have had so many positive comments about it from our guests. The rainbow colours were really vibrant and the children (and adults!) loved it.
Brittany and Chloe
Happy couple married in August
August 2019
The cake was stunning and tasted amazing.
Thank you so much, the cake was stunning and tasted amazing. Thank you so much again, it exceeded all our expectations.
Hannah and Pete
Happy couple married in July
July 2019
The cake was fab ...
... the cake was fab so thank you so much for all your effort. It was especially important for us that it didn’t just look good but taste great too as it was our dessert and we had some lovely compliments from guests.
Naomi and John
Happy couple married in June
June 2019
The cake you made us was gorgeous, exactly as we’d
The cake you made us was gorgeous, exactly as we’d asked for and it tasted amazing. Lots of our guests commented on how lovely it was! Thank you so much for your hard work in producing it.
Cocoa & Whey Cakes Location & Contact Details

Address

Little Batch, Newtown, Farnham, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8DQ, England, United Kingdom

Nearest Town

Blandford Forum

Nearest Train Station

Gillingham

Nearest Airport

Bournemouth

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FAQs
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What is your most memorable wedding?

All the weddings I have been involved with have been memorable because each couple is so unique and different & the settings are always so beautiful & individual. Perhaps one of the most memorable was delivering my first combined savoury & sweet cake. The couple were so excited that their vision had come to life & delighted that the cake was such a hit with their guests.

Describe your style in 5 adjectives.

Sometimes classic, sometimes adventurous, delicate, often floral, sometimes with a twist.

What about your business are you most proud of?

I am most proud of my work when clients have told me that the cake I have made for them is the best that they and their guests have ever tasted. Wedding cakes should be beautiful but it is even more important that they should taste wonderful.

What is your No. 1 wedding planning tip for couples?

Make sure that you attend a tasting and design consultation with your wedding cake maker in good time so that you have the opportunity to find out what you really like and can add those little touches that make the cake really personal to you both.

What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?

I think it is always lovely when a couple design their own monogram for their wedding cake, even if it is a small detail that only they will really notice.

Describe your typical process with a couple.

Couples sometimes have an idea of the sort of taste and style of cake that they would like when they email or call me but often this is not the case. Once I have an idea of the number of guests, date of the wedding and venue then, if I still have that date available, I invite couples to come and attend a complimentary, no obligation tasting in Avington. I ask couples to let me know 3 or 4 flavours that they would like to try at the tasting appointment. They can choose from the flavours listed on the "Cakes and Flavours" page at cocoaandwhey.co.uk or if there is a particular flavour that couples would like to try then I am happy to accommodate this where possible. I also try to make the appointment at a convenient time which can include evenings and weekends where required. Tasting appointments are relaxing and enjoyable and a chance for couples to find out what is possible in the world of wedding cakes and also to discover what they both really want their wedding cake to be like . A few days after the tasting appointment I will make contact with the couple and provide them with a sketch and quote for their chosen cake and any favours that they also wish to have made together with a copy of Cocoa & Whey's Terms. If the couple are happy with their choice and wish to proceed with their wedding cake booking then I take a non-refundable deposit of £50 to reserve their wedding date in my diary. This deposit is deducted from the final balance payable for the cake which will be due 4 weeks before the date of the wedding. I am usually in contact with the couple in the weeks prior to the wedding to discuss any last minute details about the cake and reception. I also liaise with the wedding caterer to make sure that the final arrangements for the cake have been made. On the day of the wedding I deliver the cake to the wedding venue and make sure that it is set up and looking beautiful in readiness for the reception.

What is your signature cake?

Raspberry & Marc de Champagne Cake is my favourite sweet cake and loved by many clients. For savoury wedding cakes Cheddar, Walnut & Apple is very popular though my personal favourite is Gruyere, Apricot & Hazelnut Cake.

What is the most original creation you have baked for a wedding?

A 4 tier combined sweet and savoury wedding cake with savoury tiers of Cheddar, Apple & Walnut Cake; Tomato, Olive & Basil Cake; Gruyere, Apricot & Hazelnut Cake and a sweet tier of Carrot Cake.

Describe how you got into making wedding cakes.

I have always loved food and art but never anticipated a career in wedding cakes in my youth. I was originally a lawyer before children but was unable to return to work when my son was diagnosed with a serious illness. My love of making beautiful cakes grew while at home and eventually developed into starting my own business, Cocoa & Whey Cakes. The business is so called to represent sweet cakes as well as savoury cakes. There is no reason that savoury cakes can't look equally as beautiful at a wedding! though I adore sweet cake too!

What would be your show stopper in the Great British Bake Off?

An elaborate combination of sweet and savoury tiers with lashings of gold detail.
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