South Manchester cake studioBaking since 2017

Celebration cakes, baked in Chorlton.

We bake birthday, christening and small wedding cakes in a little Chorlton kitchen. Choose a cake, say how many it should feed and when, and we’ll come back with a fixed price.

Studio collections

Opening hours: Mon and Tue closed · Wed 10 to 4 · Thu and Fri 10 to 6 · Sat 9 to 2 · Sun closed

Celebration cake layered with cream, strawberries and blueberries

Your cakeSample order

Strawberry and blueberry stack

6 inch round · feeds 12

from£48Order a week ahead

  • Food hygiene rating 5Sample rating, not a council record
  • Rated 4.8 out of 5By customers · sample rating
  • Baking since 2017From a Chorlton kitchen
  • Fully insuredPublic and product liability insured

Illustrative demo claims: not a real food business, rating, registration or policy.

Signature cakes

Six favourites, baked to order.

Pick one, then make it yours: any size, any sponge, any filling. Prices start at our 6 inch round.

Every cake and price
PartyPink drip birthday cake with sprinkles and a cut slice on a plate

Confetti sponge · Pink drip · Sprinkles

Recent bakes

A few looks to borrow ideas from. Sample photography: illustrative stock, not real customers’ cakes.

See the gallery
  • Semi naked cake topped with strawberries and daisies

    Strawberries and daisies8 inch · feeds 20

  • White cake decorated with tiny piped daisies

    Little daisies6 inch · feeds 12

  • Two tier semi naked cake with figs and green leaves

    Figs and olive leavesTwo tiers

  • White textured cake topped with blackberries on a white stand

    Blackberry crown6 inch · feeds 12

How ordering works

From your message to the first slice.

Five stages between your first message and the candles going on.

  1. 01 · Start

    Choose and ask

    Pick a cake, a size and a date in the order request, or ring the studio.

    Flour, strawberries and eggs on a striped tea towel
  2. 02 · Next

    A drawing and a price

    We draw your cake and fix the price. Paying the deposit secures the date.

    Two tier cake with piped buttercream flowers
  3. 03 · Tiers only

    Taste the sponges

    Ordering tiers? Pick up four sample slices at the studio and choose your flavours.

    Slice of raspberry layer cake on a white plate
  4. 04 · Collection morning

    Decorated on the day

    Sponges are baked the afternoon before; filling and decorating happen on pick-up morning.

    Hands smoothing white icing onto a small cake
  5. 05 · Handover

    Pick-up or delivery

    Pick it up in Chorlton in studio hours. Tiered cakes can be brought to your venue and set up within about eight miles.

    Finished semi naked cake with a white peony on a cake stand

Sample reviews

“We arrived with three blurry photos from a wedding fair. The drawing Rosie sent back beat all of them, and so did the lemon tier.”
Aisha, Whalley Range · Garden Rose Tiers Sample review
  • “Ordered on a Monday for a Friday leaving do. Three flavours, one tidy box, and not a crumb left by four o’clock.”

    Tom, Didsbury
    Cupcake Dozen

    Sample review
  • “Pale, pretty and not too sweet. Half the photos from our daughter’s naming day are of the cake.”

    Helen, Sale
    Edible Flower Cake

    Sample review
  • “Collection was easy, the box was sturdy and the cake survived a car full of seven year olds.”

    Priya, Chorlton
    Sprinkle Drip

    Sample review

Sample rating 4.8 out of 5, entered by the studio itself; not collected from a review platform.

Find us

Pick up in Chorlton.

Pipkin Cake Studio2 Hawthorn MewsChorlton, Manchester M21EnglandDemo address. Directions go to Chorlton, not to a real studio.
Today

Opening hours: Mon and Tue closed · Wed 10 to 4 · Thu and Fri 10 to 6 · Sat 9 to 2 · Sun closed

Studio hours for collections and tastings
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am to 4pm
Thursday10am to 6pm
Friday10am to 6pm
Saturday9am to 2pm
SundayClosed

Bank holidays: hours may vary. Christmas Eve 9am to 12pm; closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Directions0161 496 0738

Two short-stay bays in the mews are kept for pick-ups (sample arrival details). Full notes on Find us.

Questions

Worth knowing first.

Timings, ingredients, getting it there and paying.

More cake questions
When should I get my order in?

Give us a week for most cakes, ten days for a 10 inch round, three weeks for two tiers and four weeks for three. Cupcake dozens need four days. Saturdays in May, June and December go first.

Can you work from a picture I like?

Yes, as a starting point for colours and mood. We then draw our own version in the Pipkin style rather than copying another baker’s work or printing characters we have no permission to use.

What if someone has an allergy?

Everything is made in one small kitchen that handles all 14 major allergens, including gluten, eggs, milk, nuts and sesame, so we can’t call any cake allergen free. Tell us about allergies when you order: we send the full allergen list for your cake in writing before you confirm, and an allergen card goes in the box. (Sample allergen policy for this fictional studio.)

Can you bring the cake to the venue?

Most cakes are picked up at the studio in Chorlton. Tiered cakes can be brought to your venue and set up within about eight miles, from £15 (sample charge).

When do I pay?

A 30% deposit secures the date once you accept the drawing and price (sample terms). It is refunded if you cancel 21 or more days before the date; after that it is kept. The rest is due 7 days before. Nothing is paid or taken on this website.

Order a cake

Pick a date. We’ll do the baking.

Give us a week for most cakes and up to four weeks for tiers. Saturdays in May, June and December go first.

A fictional cake studio

This is a demonstration website. Pipkin Cake Studio is not a real business: calls, emails and social links don’t contact anyone, and no order is sent, stored or booked.

Close note

Pipkin · demo website

A fictional cake studio.

This is a demonstration website. Calls, emails and social links don’t contact a real studio, and the number shown is a drama-range example.

Cakes, prices, reviews, ratings and team profiles here are fictional samples. Nothing is ordered, sent or stored.

See the order request