The best birthday cakes for kids in Hong Kong
Let them eat cake!Vive Cake Boutique offers dreamy, pastel-coloured cakes with playful themes and instantly recognisable designs. 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 ice-cream cone to resemble a unicorn’s horn and decorated with macarons and hundreds and 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 star-shaped 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.
Founded by Bonnae Gokson, style icon and the creative brains behind Sevva, Ms B’s Cakery creates beautiful bespoke cakes that are (almost) too pretty to eat. Children will love the Bozo – a double chocolate chiffon birthday 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.
This vegan cake shop offers a range of animal-inspired chiffon cakes that are gluten-free, refined sugar-free and made without artificial colour. Choose from an adorable owl-shaped chocolate birthday cake, a black sesame-flavoured bunny cake or a pink piggy cake with strawberry jam. All cakes are available in five or seven inches and available for collection from stores located in Lee Gardens and Landmark.
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The team at Complete Deelite have been baking specialty cakes since 2004 and have earned brownie points with kids across Hong Kong for their eye-catching and imaginative designs which include superheroes, pirates and Star Wars characters. Beautiful themed cakes-to-go can be ordered with six hours notice while the team insist that the sky’s the limit with custom cake options from a piñata smash birthday cake filled with surprise treats to a cake resembling the family pet. Complete Deelite also offers kids baking and decorating parties and is currently running summer camps throughout August with the option to bake cupcakes, cake pops and ice cream drip cake.
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Hidden within PMQ on Hollywood Road, these unique cakes are made with passion, finesse and the finest ingredients available. Founder Phoenix Hui built the business up from an online venture. Buttercream and fondant cakes come in a variety of fun designs for kids including dinosaurs, little cars, mermaids and happy monsters. Some cakes come with the option of a cupcake tower for a truly impressive show-stopper and more.
