Sugar Craft Supplies

Orby · 10-05-2010 9:41am #1

Hi
Have started a sugar craft course and need to buy all the equipment and ingredients. Is there somewhere online that also provides cheap delivery to Ireland?

tscul32 · 10-05-2010 1:33pm

Check out all of the following:

www.sugarshack.co.uk
www.cake-stuff.com
www.apieceofcakethame.co.uk
www.squires-shop.com
www.imaginativeicing.co.uk
www.janeasher.co.uk

I've ordered from all except the top one, but only because that has a flat delivery fee of £15 for up to 30kg and I usually buy smaller, specific things. Most charge by weight bands so make sure you optimise your shopping. Check all the sites for what you want and work out the costs as with delivery they'll probably vary widely.

DreamC · 10-05-2010 3:45pm

I would recommend that you buy not "all the equipment and ingredients", but only the stuff you will really need. If you want to buy a lot and that includes some heavy stuff like fondant and professional modelling/flower sugarpaste, then it would be more profitable to buy the whole lot in one shot. I use www.design-a-cake.co.uk a lot as I am buying in bulk.

They would charge about £18 per parcel up to 25 kg and it is delivered to your door in a day or two. (Minimal charge to Ireland would be about £5). You can fill your shopping basket and it would be saved on you computer till you decide to place the order and pay. They also give 10% discount on all orders over £100 (so, that's minimum £10 off your shipping cost). Also their cake boards (12 mm drums) are very good value. They come in pack of 5 and, for example, a 12" board from a bulk pack would cost you around £1 (they are 3 euros in Boyd's here in Ireland).

It seems that you pay much when shopping in bulk but still at is more profitable and you are saving much more comparing to the local disgraceful rip off (even if you have to pay the postal costs

).

tscul32 · 10-05-2010 7:18pm

That's a good link dreamc, thanks for that. Am thinking of stocking up on boards and boxes so will just get all the little bits I've been thinking about for a while now. Will compare between design-a-cake and sugarshack.

Acoshla · 10-05-2010 8:04pm

I ordered a few things from decobake last week and they were very reasonable and very fast. I've also ordered from makeawishcakeshop.co.uk, some nice stuff, but god help you if you have a problem with your order and need to contact them.