Pistachio Rose
AED 320Pistachio sponge · rosewater cream
The bestseller. Soft pink, garnished with edible rose petals.
SUGAR LANE · BESPOKE CAKES
Brief the cake in three minutes.
One short form. One reference photo. A confirmed date and a deposit. Replaces the thirty-message WhatsApp dance.
Pistachio rose, eight inches, photographed last Tuesday.
POSSIBILITY STUDY · 19
Could bake forty cakes a week. Baked four.
A possibility study. We built this concept end to end as a working prototype, inspired by the real operational bottleneck of a home bakery. The same system can be commissioned, customized, and shipped to your business in 10 days.
Sound like your business? Home bakeries. Caterers. Custom-order food businesses run by one person and the oven. The pattern is the same.
We have already imagined this. Let's explore yours →
SECTION 01 · THE BAKER
Four a week.
Could be forty.
Farah bakes celebration cakes out of her kitchen in Abu Dhabi. Birthdays mostly. Weddings sometimes. She is the bake, the buttercream, the delivery and the WhatsApp.
Most of her time was being eaten by the order: WhatsApp back-and-forth on flavour, size, design, dates, dietary, payment. By the time she had a confirmed order she had done 30 minutes of admin per cake.
We built her an order studio. Pick the cake. Build the top. Send the brief. Pay the deposit. All in one tab, without losing the warmth of working with her directly. Same Farah. Different funnel.
“Bake the cakes, not the back-and-forth.”
SECTION 02 · THE BUILD
SCROLL · BUILD THE CAKE
Watch one
come together.
01 · The plateWe start with a marble cake stand.
02 · Sponge baseThree layers of vanilla bean sponge.
03 · The creamVanilla mascarpone, lightly sweetened.
04 · The middleWhatever the brief asked for: pistachio, rose, lemon, chocolate.
05 · The topButtercream piped, then dusted, then garnished by hand.
Yours.Forty-five minutes from oven to delivery van.
SECTION 03 · THE MENU
Four signatures. Made fresh every week.
SECTION 05 · THE OUTCOMES
More cakes. Less back-and-forth.
+260%
Cakes per week
Four cakes to fourteen, without expanding the kitchen.
3 min
Average order time
Down from thirty minutes of WhatsApp back-and-forth.
92%
Deposit conversion
Order Studio routes to a paid hold inside one session.
Sundays
Off, finally
Farah’s longest delivery day became her family day.
SECTION 06 · THE BUILD
A bakery store that thinks like a brief.
We rebuilt Sugar Lane around the moment Farah lost the most time: WhatsApp. The Order Studio captures the brief upfront, takes a deposit, and lands a clean PDF in Farah’s inbox. The site looks like a bakery. The plumbing thinks like a project tool.
- Brand identity: script-led warmth without becoming a sticker book
- Order studio: four-step brief with reference upload and date hold
- Deposit payment via Stripe with auto-refund inside the lead window
- Lead-time engine: reserved capacity per week, hidden when full
- Photography direction: pastel and natural light, not commercial gloss
- Year
- 2025
- Sector
- F&B · Home bakery
- Region
- Abu Dhabi · UAE
- Engagement
- Brand and site, 6 weeks
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