Summer Berry Cake

Summer Berry Cake — Three Layers, Two Sizes

Vanilla cake, real berries, and a buttercream that lets them through.

This is the cake for people who find most celebration cakes too much. No chocolate, no caramel, nothing heavy — just vanilla sponge, berries through it, and a light finish.

It's also the one that changes most from month to month, because the berries do.

How it's built

• Three layers of vanilla cake — soft and light, which is the point: a delicate crumb is what lets berries sit in a cake without turning it to mush
• Seasonal berries layered through — whatever's good that week, folded through 
• Vanilla buttercream — clean and not too sweet, so the berries are still the loudest thing in the slice
• Made to order, for your date — nothing sitting in a fridge waiting for a buyer

Two sizes

• 6 inch — $88 · feeds 6 to 8 ($11.00–$14.67 a head)
• 8 inch — $135 · feeds 10 to 15 ($9.00–$13.50 a head)

The 8-inch is the better value per person — 53% more money for 67 to 88% more cake. Around ten people, size up.

A note on the berries

The berries in this cake are whatever's in season and available. That's why it tastes different in July than it does in November — and it's why we'd rather tell you than have you wonder.

If you're ordering this cake specifically for the berries you remember, tell us in the notes and we'll tell you honestly what's good that week. In deep winter, we may suggest a different cake or a different fruit — and we'd rather have that conversation at the order than at the pickup.

Why it's worth the price

• Three layers, filled and stacked by hand. Levelling, filling and frosting each layer is an hour of somebody's afternoon, not a mix poured into a tin.
• Real berries, in season. Berries are the most expensive thing in this cake and the cost moves more than any other ingredient we buy. Buying them in season is why the cake works and why we don't do it with frozen fruit.
• A proper vanilla sponge. Real vanilla, real butter, and a light crumb — vanilla is the hardest flavour to hide a shortcut in.
• It holds. Buttercream sets, so this cake travels, sits on a table and still eats well hours later — unlike a cream-filled cake.

The details

• 6 inch — $88 (feeds 6–8) · 8 inch — $135 (feeds 10–15)
• Three layers of vanilla cake with seasonal berries and vanilla buttercream
• Berries change with the season — ask us what's in that week
• 3 days' notice required — this is a made-to-order cake
• Pickup Wednesday to Saturday
• Tell us your collection date, and any message for the cake, in the order notes
  
• Want it personalised or printed? Email info@radicalgardens.com for a quote — we print directly onto edible surfaces, minimum twelve

Where it fits Birthdays, showers, Mother's Day, spring and summer occasions, christenings, and any table where a rich cake would be too much after a big meal.

Want berries but not vanilla? Our cheesecakes come in ten flavours including a Seasonal Berry, and we make eight signature cakes from $68.

Our Bakery and Restaurant only use the very best ingredients and as much locally sourced product as possible.

We do not accept returns on perishable products, however we do take returns on non perishables like our merch line.