Office cake occasions have a particular shape to them. Someone is leaving, someone has hit twenty years, a client is visiting, or a target got hit and somebody in management decided that deserved marking.
The brief is usually the same: feed a room of people who will eat standing up, at short notice, without anyone having to plate anything.
Feeding a room, not a table
This is the main thing that separates a corporate order from a birthday order. Nobody sits down. There are no plates and often no forks worth speaking of.
Two things follow.
Cut small. A dense cake cut into small pieces feeds far more people than a light one cut generously. A mud cake or a baked cheesecake goes much further than a sponge.
Choose something that survives being out. Office cake sits on a bench for two hours while people drift past. Heavily iced cakes suffer in an air-conditioned office less than outdoors, but a chilled cheesecake or a firm mud cake will look better at 4pm than a soft-iced sponge.
What tends to work
- Farewell or milestone: something that reads as a proper occasion. A Black Forest gateau or a Biscoff cheesecake with a custom chocolate plaque carrying their name.
- Client visit: understated and good rather than decorated. A plain American baked cheesecake served in small slices looks considered.
- Regular team thing: variety beats scale. Two smaller cakes give people a choice and cover dietary requirements more gracefully than one large one.
- Something to mark a number: our acrylic number toppers run from One to Ninety — useful for company anniversaries as well as birthdays.
Dietary requirements are not optional at work
In a personal setting you can ask the group. In an office you often cannot, and the person who cannot eat it will usually say nothing.
Our gluten free and vegan range covers it. Individual portions such as gluten free cupcakes work far better in an office than a separate cake, because nobody has to announce themselves.
If someone has coeliac disease, ring us on (07) 3209 2771 rather than relying on a web page.
Ordering and collection
Two things worth knowing if you are organising this from a desk.
We are collection only. There is no delivery. Someone will need to pick it up from Springwood, so factor that into who is organising it and when.
You choose your pickup time at the checkout, which makes it easier to slot around a lunch break or a meeting.
Ready-made cakes and cheesecakes can be ordered online or bought off the shelf on the day. Anything custom needs at least 5 working days, with a deposit to secure the date and the balance before production.
If this happens often
If your workplace orders regularly rather than occasionally, it is worth a conversation about our wholesale side instead — same kitchen, different arrangement, and it makes more sense than placing separate retail orders every few weeks.
Where we are
Roberto’s Cheesecakes, 3414/3416 Pacific Hwy, Springwood QLD 4127 — convenient for the Eight Mile Plains business parks, Underwood, Rochedale and the wider southside. Phone (07) 3209 2771.
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