About
Ten years of The Black Rat Cakery®
A trademarked, home-grown cake business built entirely on referrals and repeat clients since 2016.
Our Story
A name worth trademarking
The Black Rat Cakery® started in Hedge End in 2016 and has spent the ten years since building a reputation almost entirely by word of mouth — one wedding, one celebration and one wholesale order at a time.
The name and the black rat mark are distinctive enough that they’ve been formally registered as a trademark — a small detail, but one that reflects how seriously the business is run behind the scenes.
Every cake is designed, baked, iced and finished by hand from a home-based kitchen in Hedge End, with no two commissions ever built quite the same way.
How We Work
Bespoke, from the first sketch
Made With Care
Every commission is treated as its own project, designed and built specifically for the person or couple it’s for.
Ten Years’ Experience
A decade of wedding, celebration and wholesale work has shaped a process that’s calm, clear and genuinely collaborative.
Built to Order
Nothing is pre-made or off the shelf — every cake is baked to order around your date, not a fixed weekly menu.
Beyond Weddings
Wholesale & frozen desserts too
Alongside bespoke wedding and celebration cakes, The Black Rat Cakery® supplies frozen desserts and wholesale bakes to local venues and cafés — the same standard of finish, at a scale that suits a menu rather than a single table.
Get in touch to talk through a regular supply arrangement or a one-off order for an event.
Say Hello
We’d love to hear about your day
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