Custom Bakery Boxes
Our bakery boxes are crafted from premium, food-grade cardboard and recyclable kraft paper, ensuring your baked goods stay fresh and intact. These sturdy, eco-friendly boxes are ideal for packaging cakes, pastries, and other baked treats. Made to your size and artwork from 100 units, with the die, plates, design support and US shipping included, and a digital proof before anything prints.
Key Takeaways
iBox Factory makes custom bakery boxes from 100 boxes per design, sized to the cake, pastries or cupcakes they carry. The die, the plates, design support and US shipping are included, and you approve a digital proof before anything prints. Turnaround is quoted per product on your written quote, and samples can be requested through the quote form.
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Every style below is made to your size and artwork, from 100 units.
Custom Packaging That Defines Your Brand
Get Your Packaging Details Right
Shipping, materials, and finishes are chosen per job so the box fits your product and your budget.
Shipping
Free shipping across the US on every order. Choose the lane on your quote: Rush (expedited production plus air freight), Standard (air), or Cost Saver (sea).
Materials
Pick the board for the job: kraft, coated paperboard, corrugated for shipping strength, or rigid chipboard for a premium unboxing. FSC-certified paper stock and soy-based inks.
Add-Ons and Finishes
Matte or gloss lamination, foil stamping, embossing, spot UV, windows, and inserts. Ask on the quote and we will price the combination.
Five Steps to Your Packaging
We handle it from the first idea to the box at your door.
Request a Quote
Tell us style, size, quantity, and printing. We come back with a written quote.
Finalize Your Design
Send artwork or work with our designers. The die and plates are included.
Approve Your Order
Check the quote and the digital proof. Nothing prints until you sign off.
Production
Printed, finished, and inspected against your approved proof.
Delivery
From about 7 business days of production, plus 2 to 5 for delivery, on the lane you chose.
Quote in Minutes
Attach artwork or a reference image if you have one. We reply with a written quote and a proof.
Bakery packaging fails in three predictable ways: grease darkens the board, the lid crushes the frosting, and the stack tips in the delivery van. A custom bakery box is worth ordering when you want to fix those things and put your name on the lid at the same time. iBox Factory prints and cuts bakery boxes to your footprint from a 100 box minimum.
Footprints bakeries order most
These are the sizes the trade settles on, and they exist because cake boards, cupcake inserts and sheet pans come in matching increments. Custom sizes are cut to your dimensions, but starting from a known footprint usually saves a round of proofing.
| Box (L x W x D, inches) | Typically holds |
|---|---|
| 8 x 8 x 4 | A 6 to 7 inch round cake on a board |
| 10 x 10 x 5 | An 8 inch round with a piped top |
| 12 x 12 x 6 | A 10 inch round, tall layer cakes, small tiered cakes |
| 14 x 10 x 4 | A quarter sheet, or a 12 count cupcake insert |
| 19 x 14 x 4 | A half sheet cake |
| 7 x 5.5 x 3 | A 4 count cupcake or pastry box |
Depth is the decision people underestimate. Measure the tallest decoration, not the cake, and add half an inch of headroom so the lid never touches buttercream. The wider size table sits on our bakery box dimensions page.
Window or no window
A window sells the product in a display case and adds cost, a film step and a little assembly time. Skip it when the box goes straight into a delivery bag, keep it when the customer chooses from a counter. Windows also weaken the panel they sit in, so on a large lid the frame around the window needs to stay wide enough to hold its shape. Our window box guide covers film choices and frame widths.
Board, grease and contact
Grease resistance is a board and coating question, and it is the part to be specific about rather than optimistic. Tell us on the quote whether the product touches the board directly, whether it goes in warm, and whether the box is refrigerated or frozen. We will confirm the board grade and any coating in writing before you approve the proof. iBox Factory does not issue food contact certifications, so anything your local health authority or your buyer requires should be checked against the written spec we give you.
Printing on a box that gets handled wet
Bakery boxes get picked up with icing on someone's fingers. Heavy full coverage ink shows every mark. A one or two color print on kraft, or a printed lid over a plain base, holds up better in real use and costs less. Foil and gloss lamination look sharp on gift and holiday boxes but are a poor fit for a box that leaves the counter three times a day.
Ordering, wholesale pricing and lead time
Minimum order is 100 boxes, so a single flavor launch or a farmers market weekend is enough to justify a custom run. Unit price falls as quantity rises and starts from about $0.48 per unit at bulk volumes, always confirmed on your written quote. Production is stated per product in three lanes: rush pairs expedited production with air freight at a premium of about 7 to 25% depending on the job, standard runs by air from about 7 business days plus 2 to 5 days for delivery, and cost saver moves by sea for the lowest price and the longest wait. Die, plates, design support, US shipping and a digital proof are included.
Send your cake or pastry dimensions, whether you need a window, and the date you need boxes on the bench to our quote form.
