Office Cake Orders in Bangalore: A Planner's Guide

Somebody in every office ends up being the person who orders the cake. Usually it's whoever organised the last one. Here's how to make it painless: enough for everyone, nobody left out, and on time.

Start with who's actually in

Don't size the order from the team list. With hybrid work, count who's going to be in the office that day. Ask in the team channel a day or two before, then add a margin of about 10 percent for people from the next team who wander over when they hear there's cake. They always do.

Then the rough maths:

• Cake: roughly 8 to 10 slices per kilo. After lunch, with thin slices, a kilo can stretch to about 12.
• Cupcakes: one per person, plus the margin.
• Dessert jars or pastry slices: one per person, if you want something individual that isn't a cupcake.

So a team of 25 needs about 2.5kg of cake, or seven boxes of four cupcakes.

Cake, cupcakes or both

Each has its place.

A whole cake is the ceremony: the candle, the song, the photo. It needs a knife, plates, someone to cut, and a place to stand.

Cupcakes are easier. Nobody cuts, nobody serves, people pick one up between calls. Our cupcakes come in boxes of four, from ₹180 to ₹300 a box.

Both is what a lot of offices settle on. A small cake for the moment, and cupcakes to feed everyone. For a team of 40, a 1kg cake plus eight boxes of cupcakes gives you roughly 42 portions.

Individual desserts like our dessert jars work well for smaller, dressier occasions, such as a farewell or a client visit.

Mixing dietary needs

Any office in Bengaluru has a mix. Some people don't eat egg, some avoid gluten, some are cutting back on sugar, and a few will tell you they're "just having a small bite" and mean it.

• Egg: most of our cakes, cupcakes and dessert jars carry the green veg mark, meaning they're baked without egg. See our eggless cakes page. That alone covers a lot of offices.
• Gluten: many cakes can be baked gluten-free. For a team with one or two gluten-free colleagues, one gluten-free cake among several works well. Anyone with coeliac disease should check with us directly, as our kitchen isn't gluten-free.
• Savoury: not everyone wants sugar at 4 PM. A tray of puffs from Flaky Bites is a good companion. Keep the chicken and egg puffs clearly apart from the veg ones.

Ask quietly beforehand rather than in the group chat. People are more honest one-to-one.

Getting a quote

For a one-off team birthday, ordering straight from the menu is simplest. For anything bigger, such as a large headcount, a logo cake, branded cupcakes or monthly birthday cakes, use our corporate page. Tell us the occasion, team size and preferences, and we'll send a custom quote within 2 hours.

Send these details with the enquiry:

• the date, and the time you want to serve it,
• the headcount, and a rough budget per head,
• dietary needs, with numbers ("6 eggless, 2 gluten-free"),
• the full delivery address, including the tower, floor and gate,
• the name and phone number of the person receiving it.

Timing the delivery

This is where office orders usually go wrong.

Orders from our menu placed before 12 noon arrive the same evening, between 4 and 5 PM. That suits a late-afternoon celebration nicely. If your cake-cutting is earlier in the day, or tied to a particular meeting, order a day ahead and tell us the time when you order, so we can say honestly whether we can make it.

For a big order, or an office in a far-off part of the city, order a day ahead regardless.

Many tech parks around Sarjapur Road, Outer Ring Road and Whitefield don't let delivery riders up to your floor. Plan for someone to come down to the lobby or gate. Put their name and number on the order, not the birthday person's, or you'll spoil the surprise.

A short checklist

• Count who's actually in, then add 10 percent.
• Decide on cake, cupcakes or both.
• Ask about egg and gluten one-to-one.
• Get a quote early for anything branded or large.
• Name a receiver who'll go down to the lobby.
• Clear fridge space, and find a knife.

Do those six things and the only question left is who's giving the speech.