Hedge End, Hampshire — Est. 2016

Wedding cakes with obsessive attention to detail

Bespoke wedding, celebration and wholesale cakes, handmade to order in Hedge End. Ten years of cake artistry, one trademarked name.

Hand-painted two-tier wedding cake by The Black Rat Cakery, decorated with fine-line illustrations of scuba divers and mountain hikers in navy on ivory fondant

Signature Work

Cakes built to be the centrepiece

Every tier is stacked, iced and finished by hand — no two commissions are ever quite the same.

Three-tier semi-naked wedding cake with burgundy and burnt-orange silk roses, gold ribbon detailing and a personalised gold cake topper

Autumn Rose, Three Tiers

Semi-naked buttercream, burgundy & burnt-orange florals, gold accents.

Two-tier ivory wedding cake styled as a miniature castle with a fondant door, climbing vines and a personalised initial banner

The Castle, Two Tiers

Hand-sculpted fondant castle walls, vines and a personalised door.

Single-tier ivory cake with pearl beading, pastel silk roses and a laser-cut monogram topper finished with a black satin bow

Pearl & Bow, Single Tier

Hand-piped pearl beading, silk roses, monogrammed topper.


What We Bake

Three ways to work with us

Wedding Cakes

Our flagship work — bespoke tiered cakes designed around your day, from intimate two-tiers to full showstoppers.

Celebration Cakes

Birthdays, retirements, christenings and everything worth marking with a cake designed just for you.

Wholesale & Frozen Desserts

Supplying local venues and cafés with frozen desserts and wholesale bakes, made to the same standard.

Close-up of a bouquet of deep black roses used as cake styling props, echoing The Black Rat Cakery's dark, characterful branding

Ten Years in the Making

A trademarked name, built one cake at a time

The Black Rat Cakery® has been baking bespoke wedding, celebration and wholesale cakes from Hedge End since 2016 — long enough to register the name as a trademark, and to build a decade of referral-driven, word-of-mouth work.

Every commission is designed around the couple or client in front of us: florals, flavours and finishes are chosen to suit the day, not pulled from a catalogue.

10
Years Trading
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Registered Trademark
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Bespoke, Every Time

The Gallery

A small selection — wedding tiers, celebration cakes and wholesale bakes, all handmade to order.


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Get In Touch

Let’s design your cake

We currently take enquiries by direct message — send a note with your date, guest count and a little about the day, and we’ll reply as soon as we can.