Country Girl Cakes

Wedding/Celebration Cakes

1. How much do your cakes/cupcakes cost?

   Our cakes are priced by design, varying according to the complexity of your design and the time invested in its creation. The final price is determined by the design and the number of servings you select. However, most cakes will fall into these basic ranges:

   Fondant cakes: $5.00 - $9.50 per serving

   Carved cakes: $6.00 - $12.00 per serving

   Speciality Cupcakes, regular size: $2.50 - $5.00 each

   Mini Cupcakes: $1.00 - $1.75 each

   Mini Cakes : $6 - $15 each

2. How far in advance do I need to book a cake?

   Country Girl Cakes cares a lot about the quality of our cakes - to ensure that, we limit the number of cakes that we take every week. Celebration cakes, such as birthdays, anniversaries and showers, are best to book at least 2-3 weeks in advance and Wedding Cakes are best to book 6-9 months in advance to ensure availability. With that being said, it doesn't hurt to call to see if we might have a last minute space available! Please call or email to confirm availability.

3. Do you require a deposit?

   Yes, all wedding cakes and cakes over $300.00 require a 50% deposit at the time of booking to secure the date on our calender.

4. Do you offer private tastings or open house tastings?

   Country Girl Cakes provides private consultations and tastings for every wedding cake and cake ordered over $300.00.

5. When are your consultations?

   Consultations are available by appointment only, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9am-11am and 5pm-8pm. Please call or email to arrange. As we have many weekend events to prepare cakes for, we are unable to accommodate Friday and Saturday requests for consultations.

6. How many cakes do you schedule for a typical weekend?

   Country Girl Cakes typically schedules 5-6 cakes per weekend, with no more than 2 weddings. We want to ensure the quality of the cake, rather than the quantities of cakes.

7. Do you offer custom cakes, or do you work with pre-designed styles?

   All of our cakes are custom designed for each individual client. With that being said, please feel free to bring pictures with you that you have found inspiration in for your consultation, and we can design a cake based on that picture.

8. On average, how far in advance of the event do you prepare the cake?

   Cakes are baked/iced/decorated all within 1-2 days of the event depending on how busy we are that particular weekend.

9. Will you work with the client's florist to garnish the cake?

   Not all flowers and greenery are safe to use on a cake. Fresh flowers should NEVER be inserted into your cake. With that being said, Country Girl Cakes will contact the florist to discuss the arrangement of the flowers on the cake if you provide us with the contact information. However, your florist is responsible for all arranging on the cake.

10. Do you offer delivery? If yes, how much is your average delivery fee?

    Yes, we offer delivery and in fact, we prefer to deliver your cake. Delivery is calculated according to mileage based upon the physical address of the delivery site and driving route of mapquest.com; some locations may have a flat rate. Our typical delivery area includes Cornwall, Ottawa, and Kingston with all areas in between; however, we have delivered a number of times to Orleans, Toronto, and even Waterloo!

General Questions

1. What flavours of cake and fillings do you offer?

   Country Girl Cakes offers a wide range of cake flavours as well as many different flavours of buttercream fillings! Please call or email to inquire about our full list of flavours. Here are a couple of examples of our most popular flavour combinations!

   Heavenly Chocolate Cake with Sweet Vanilla Buttercream

   Heavenly Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream

   Heavenly Chocolate Cake with Mint Chocolate Buttercream

   Heavenly Chocolate Cake with Peppermint Buttercream and crushed candy cane

   Vivacious Vanilla with Swiss Meringue Buttercream

   Vivacious Vanilla with Cookies 'N' Cream Buttercream

   Vivacious Vanilla with Hazelnut Buttercream

   Royal Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing

   Royal Red Velvet with Creamy Chocolate Fudge

   Luscious Lemon with Sweet Raspberry Buttercream

   Maple Pecan with Caramel Swiss Meringue Buttercream

   Cinnimon Cake with Fresh Apple Buttercream and Caramel Drizzle

   "Chocolate Ganache is also available at an additional cost"

   "All Cakes are covered in a great high quality fondant"

2. Do you have cakes available for pickup at your store?

   :Each cake we create is 100% made to order and not available “ready-made” at our store. We do however, have regular and mini-cupcakes for sale in variety packs. A dozen mini-cupcakes sell for $13.00 and 1/2 dozen regular cupcakes sell for $14.00 (including tax).

3. What are your payment options?

   At this time, Country Girl Cakes only accepts Cash or Personal Cheques.

4. Are you licensed by the provincial health department?

   Yes, Country Girl Cakes is Food Safety Certified.

5. What (if any) special ingredients, such as fresh fruits or farm-fresh butter, do you use in your cakes?

   All of our cakes/fillings/icing are made from scratch using the freshest ingrediants possible. We try to get all of our butter, eggs and fruit from the local farmers as much as possible.

6. Besides cakes, what other types of desserts do you provide?

   Country Girl Cakes also provides Custom Cookies, Cupcakes, Dessert Buffets and Groom's Cakes

7. What (if any) cake accessories, such as a cake stand or cake cutter, do you rent out?

   At this moment, we rent out cupcake stands for Wedding Cupcake Towers as well as a select few cake stands.

8. Do you offer cake decorating classes?

   Due to the volume of cakes coming out of the shop every week, we unfortunately are not running any classes at this time; however, we are looking into starting some basic cake decorating classes this Fall. Stay Tuned for more information!

9. Do you have a Facebook or Twitter page?

   Absolutely! You can find us on Facebook using Country Girl Cakes as the page name, and please feel free to follow us on Twitter @countrygrlcakes to keep up to date with Miranda and the new cake shop!

10. A Note on Response Time

    The kitchen is a very busy place. We’re constantly working on something sweet and exciting. We do not have a computer in our kitchen and may not be able to respond to your email right away. Please remember that, just like your cake will be our number one priority the week of your event, someone elses cake is our number one priority right now. The end of the week tends to be our busiest time. If you have emailed or called Thursday on please note that we will most likely not be able to get back to you until Monday.

11. A note regarding feedback!

    Country Girl Cakes LOVES feedback! Please feel free to drop us a line by email or snail-mail (Box 880, Cardinal, ON, K0E 1E0) or fill out our feedback form online! Be sure to send us a copy of any photos you'd like to share!