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Let them eat cake Gemma Shaw explores the city’s best birthday cake offerings
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thousands while the Let Them Be Little cake is crafted with fondant icing of a rainbow over clouds and filled with a surprise centre of starshaped confetti. Customised topper messages available with two weeks notice. The store is located on Queen’s Road Central and cakes can be delivered by a dedicated team for a fee. A baby cake smash photography package is also available in collaboration with 123 Cheese Production. Photoshoots are priced from $4,680 and include a cake, a themed backdrop and 30 fully-edited images. order.vive.hk
Vive Cake Boutique Vive Cake Boutique offers dreamy, pastel-coloured cakes with playful Most themes and instantly Instagramrecognisable designs. mable Founded by self-taught cake designer Vivien Lau, the bakery has attracted a large celebrity following. Its signature Uni-Cone cake is capped with an inverted icecream cone to resemble a unicorn’s horn and decorated with macarons and hundreds and
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Mrs B’s Cakery Founded by Bonnae Gokson, style icon and the creative brains behind Sevva, Ms B’s Cakery creates Showbeautiful bespoke stopper cakes that are (almost) too pretty to eat. Children will love the Bozo – a double chocolate chiffon cake that comes with a generous layer of fudge and topped with chocolate covered fruit pops. Crafted using natural ingredients, these cakes are a truly indulgent way to wrap up any party with an eight-inch cake priced from $1,000. Bespoke cake designs are available on request and parents are invited to collaborate for the most picture-worthy and memorable cake. Stores located at Landmark, Pacific Place and Lee Tung Avenue. msbscakery.hk
