Category Archives: Personalising your Favours

Favour cakes by the slice

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Up until now we sold favour  cakes in sets of 20 or 32 slices. This is perfect if  you have around 20 or 32 guests at your son or daughter’s Christening or First Communion otherwise you may have leftover slices (though you will likely have already over sugared children all too willing to help you) or  worse, not have enough for all your guests.

To help you out we have changed how we sell favour cakes – you can now order exactly how many slices you want, between 15 and 70 slices!

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Of course, some of you may be wondering what favour cakes are…

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Favours boxes come in all sort of shapes and colours, including triangular cake slice shape. These slice shaped boxes are arranged in circles to make a cake, each favour box contains sweets( traditionally sugared almonds but any sweets can be used) and a personalisation note.
The boxes are decorated according to the event it is intended for, this being a Christening or a First Communion or indeed a Wedding, and the large centrepiece will match the theme. Generally speaking favour cakes come in a pre set number, we at www.bbbonbon.ie are letting you decide how many favours, in other words, how many slices you want in your cake because our favour cakes are sold by the slice.

When placing an order just add the number of slices to your shopping cart, this includes the cake as a set, decorated and filled with sweets and personalised, as well as the centrepiece. This gives you the freedom to choose the exact number of favours for you guests.

The smallest cake can be made of 15 slices (1 tier) all the way up to 70 slices (3 tiers) or more…

Personalised favours with ribbons and notes.

Favours are an important way to say thank you to your family and friends to any occasion, a Christening, a Wedding, a First Holy Communion or indeed a Wedding anniversary. The giving of the small gift requires no words in itself, its a gesture well appreciated by adults and children alike.
But not only that, favours can be personalised to add a special touch to the item itself and to put into written words what they mean.
We at BBBonbon personalise all our favours, free of charge.
Each favour has a note inside or outside, with the type of occasion it is, the date, the name/s and a few words, chosen by you, the client, such as “Thank you for sharing our special day” or “Hope you enjoy my little gift and these five sweets which symbolise, health, wealth, longevity, fertility and happiness” or a simple “Thank you for joining in our celebration.”
There is more, at BBBonbon you can now personalised your ribbons as well.
Pink, blue, silver, gold and many other colour ribbons available which you can choose to decorate any of the boxes available.
The date of the occasion, the name/s and the occasion itself is the most popular options for the personalised ribbon, but there is no limit to what can be written.
The personalised ribbon have been a huge hit!
Please note, the price for the personalised ribbon is separate.

Communion Favour Cake vs Traditional Communion Cake

It’s that time of the year again  where First Communions are fast approaching and we at bbbonbon.ie, alongside the traditional Communion favours, are proud to present the Favours Communion cake.

Boys Communion Favour Cake
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Girls Communion Favour Cake

What is a Communion cake, what is it made of, does it substitute the traditional First communion  cake?

These are the answers:

The Communion cake is a cake because it indeed looks like one,  but it is not made of sponge or biscuits or even chocolate, it is made of many boxes, from a minimum of 15 to a maximum of approx 70.

Each box, made of thick card,  is shaped as a slice and it is placed in a circle card tray with a centrepiece creating the illusion of a cake.

The more the slices used, the taller is the cake.

The colour can vary, the slices are traditionally white for a First Communion cake but can be cream, silver, gold or indeed pink or blue.

Silver, gold or any other colour ribbon, and even better a personalised ribbon with the name of the child and the date of the Communion can be added around the round tray.

Each box/slice is filled with sweets, which, in keeping with the old European favour tradition, should be sugared almonds, but nowadays many people choose chocolates shaped as almonds, foiled chocolates, or indeed some of the  children’s  favourite sweets  such as Smarties, Jelly beans and so on.

Often the favours are personalised with the name of the child and the date of the First Communion, we at bbbonbon.ie personalise all our favours, by including a card in each box,  free of charge.

So does the new First Communion favour cake win over the Traditional Communion one?

There is no answer as it depends on the taste of the customer but we find that more often than not the Communion favour cake is used alongside the traditional cake because the latter, is consumed on the day while the little slices on the favour cake are given to the guests as a Thank You token for attending the child’s special day, it is, a keepsake.

The child who’s Communion it is will be left with the large centrepiece as a keepsake for his/her special day.

Communion favour cake v Communion Traditional cake………what do you think?

Personalisation Options Added to BBbonbon Online

We are delighted to announce that we now have online personalisation at www.bbbonbon.ie

Our favours are personalised just for you!

We offer free personalisation of all favours. You can choose the font, colour and message.

Please let us have the wording for your tags in the Personalisation Message box at checkout.

We need the name of the bride and groom for Wedding Favours, the baby’s name for Christening favours or birthday person’s name for Birthday favours.

Please also tell us the date of your occasion and choose your font and ink colour from the drop down menus.

Obviously, you can choose other words, though please try and limit it to 35 words.

For monogrammed tags we simply need the bride and groom’s names, plus the groom’s surname.

To help you make your choice, we will be adding images to the personalisation page, hopefully within the next two weeks!

You can have the wording in any language… just let us know your specific requirements, we are here to help, so please do not hesitate to contact us.

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HOW TO PERSONALISE YOUR FAVOURS

Favours are a little gift given to your guests as a thank you, we at www.bbbonbon.ie like to personalise all our favors, this service is FREE of charge and therefore included on the price.

There are many ways to personalise your favors, we as a standard write the name of the child and the date of the occasion, that being a First Communion or a Christening, we also add the meanings of the traditional 5 sweets included in all favours, they symbolise healh, wealth, longevity, fertility and happiness.

For a First Communion a lovely suggestion is for the Communion child to write a little thank you card that can be added to the favours or indeed a little poem or a quote that the child likes.

If the child is good a drawing, a small picture and just the word thank you inside each favour box can go a long way……

As for Christenings, the choice is endless, again, anything from a quote chosen by the parents, or mybe a few words on the meaning of the child’s name, or indeed a note written as if the child had written it will definitely blow your guests away.

We at www.bbbonbon.ie are more than happy to answer all your enquiries on how to personalise your children’s favours and  how to make these little gifts even more special!