Cake Boxes
Grease-resistant board cake box with a window and a locking base. Minimum 250 units.
Per unit, ex works, for stock board with full colour print on the outside and matte lamination. Includes the dieline and one digital proof. Kraft board, heavier calipers, window patching, foil and inserts change the rate — those specs are quoted on request.
Any size, no tooling charge
Stock dies cut to your inside dimensions, so a custom footprint costs the same as a catalogue size.
Dieline and blank sample free
You approve a layered dieline and, on request, hold an unprinted box before the run.
Priced in one business day
Send the spec and a specialist comes back with a firm number, including a cheaper construction if one fits.
What cake boxes is, and when it is the right call
A cake box carries an unstable load in two axes and gets carried by one hand, which is why the base matters more than anything printed on it. A crash lock or interlocking base holds square under an iced cake; a tucked base does not, and the failure is spectacular.
Grease resistance is the other requirement. An uncoated board darkens within minutes against buttercream, so we run a food-grade coating on the inside face rather than a full lamination, which keeps the outside recyclable.
18pt to 24pt coated board with optional PET window. Sizes from cupcake singles to 14 inch. Minimum 250 units. Buyers arriving from food packaging usually compare it with twisted handle shopping bags; in format terms it is a tuck boxes product, so playing card boxes is the closest alternative. Where the budget allows, invitation boxes is the upgrade.
Buyers often compare this against reverse tuck end boxes and tuck end boxes, and every tuck carton we make sits on the tuck boxes page. Specified most often for food and beverage packaging. Shop Tuck Boxes quotes this carton in any size you need, with a free dieline and an unprinted blank sample before you commit.
Specification
- Category
- Food Packaging
- Stock sizes
- 6 x 6 x 3 in | 8 x 8 x 4 in | 10 x 10 x 4 in | 12 x 12 x 5 in
- Boards
- SBS 14–24pt, natural kraft, white kraft, recycled CRB
- Offset or digital, up to 6 colours plus spot
- Finishes
- Matte or gloss lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil, emboss
- Add-ons
- Window patch, foil, emboss, board insert, hang hole
- Lead time
- 10–14 business days from artwork approval
- Ships
- Flat, banded, palletised
- SKU
- BX-TUC-028
Notes from the floor
Board weight decides more than the product category does. Most boxes we are asked to quote are specified one step heavier than they need to be, and that shows up on every unit.
Where a product sits near the limit of a construction, ask for both options to be quoted. The difference is usually a cent or two a unit and the decision becomes obvious.
Send the product dimensions and weight. Our structural team will name the construction that fits — including when it is a cheaper one than this.
Ask a structural engineerFrom dieline to pallet in four stages
Everything you can specify on this die
Questions about this product
Artwork, tolerances, board weights and minimums. Anything else, a specialist will answer on the phone in a minute.
Ask about this productYes, and that is most of our work. Give inside dimensions in inches, or the product measurements, and we work the box back from it. Any footprint inside the die family is cut at stock pricing with no tooling charge.
A print-ready PDF or packaged AI file placed on our dieline, CMYK, fonts outlined, 1/8" bleed. Name any Pantone in the file and we match it on press rather than converting it.
From 100 units on rigid and tuck styles, 250 to 500 on litho-printed cartons and bags. The minimum for this product is in the short description at the top of the page.
Ten to fourteen business days from artwork approval, plus transit. Foil, lamination and inserts add two to four days.
Always. A digital proof against your dieline, and on request a printed proof on the actual board before the run.
An unprinted box in your exact size and board, posted within three business days. No card, no obligation.
Also available in these constructions
Hold the box before you order 5,000 of them.
Shop Tuck Boxes will post an unprinted box in your exact size and board within three business days. No card, no obligation.