A Korean cake is one of the most popular cakes for small gifts and low-key celebrations: a small cake in a soft colour with a short message or a simple drawing on top. At Avon Cake you can order a ready-made Korean cake in a lunch box that serves two, or design your own and write your own message. This guide explains the style, helps you pick a size for one to four people, walks you through designing one, and covers same-day ordering.
What is a Korean cake?
A Korean cake is more of a look than a recipe or a flavour. You may also hear it called a bento cake or a lunch box cake. You'll recognise it by four things:
- Small: usually 4 inches, enough for two.
- Simple: one soft colour such as white, pink or baby blue, without heavy decoration.
- A message or a doodle: a short hand-piped message, or a light drawing like little hearts or a line-drawn character.
- The box: our lunch boxes come in a burger box, so they're ready to give.
That's why several of our lunch box cakes say "Korean cake" right in their description.
Ready-made Korean cakes: pick a lunch box
Every cake below is 4 inches and serves two. You choose the filling: cream, Nutella, berry, Lotus or pistachio.
Lunch Box with Hearts
The Lunch Box with Hearts is described as a Korean cake: white cream decorated with small red hearts. In the photo it reads «كل عام وانت حبيبي» ("happy birthday, my love").
- Colour: white, pink or baby blue.
- Message: you write your own on the cake.
Love Hearts Lunch Box
The Love Hearts Lunch Box is a round white cake with "love" piped in red and small red and white hearts around it, plus your own message. In the same spirit, the Balloon of Love Cake is a white lunch box cake decorated with red heart-shaped balloons.
Birthday Lunch Box
The Birthday Lunch Box is a Korean-style birthday cake. In the photo it says «هابي بيرثداي» with a simple drawing of a character holding balloons and colourful sprinkles around it.
- Colour: white, pink or baby blue.
- Message: yours, on the cake.
Heart Lunch Box
Prefer a heart? The Heart Lunch Box is a 4-inch heart in a burger box, in white, pink or baby blue, with your message on top.
More birthday options: the Birthday Cake Lunch Box, white with a cupcake drawing and "Happy Birthday", and the Birthday Letters Lunch Box, where you add a child's name or a short message.
How many people? Sizes for one to four
| People | What to choose | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mini Heart Ring Box | 2 inch |
| 2 | Any lunch box above | 4 inch |
| 2 | Design Your Cake: 4-inch round or 4-inch heart | 4 inch |
| 4 | Design Your Cake: 6-inch round | 6 inch |
| 4 | Dad Always Wins Cake | 6 inch |
- A treat for yourself or one person: a 4-inch lunch box serves two, so it makes an easy gift. For something smaller, the Mini Heart Ring Box is a 2-inch heart for one.
- Four people: go for the 6-inch round in Design Your Cake, in the same style.
- More than four: see our mini cakes guide or browse Mini Cakes.
A Korean cake for four: Dad Always Wins
The Dad Always Wins Cake has a Korean-style design: white DAD letters on a black grid over calm blue cream, with small red hearts in the corners. The 6-inch size serves 4, and it also comes in 8 inch (6 people) and 10 inch (8 people), with your message on the board.
Design your own Korean cake, step by step
Want your own message and colour? Open Design Your Cake and follow the steps:
- Shape: 4-inch round or 4-inch heart for two, or 6-inch round for four.
- Filling: cream, Nutella, Lotus or pistachio.
- Colour: for the Korean look, pick a light shade: white, pale pink, baby blue, pale green or beige.
- Design: write your message on the cake or the board, up to 25 characters. Want a simple doodle? Try "With love" under Birthday (a line-drawn character holding a heart balloon and flowers), or "Take my heart" and "Me and You" under Love & Marriage.
- Printing (optional): add a photo if printing is available for the design you picked, or skip it to keep the minimal look.
- Extras: such as candles or a birthday topper.
Then choose delivery or branch pickup and your time slot. Cake flavour: chocolate, or vanilla (Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam only, booked a day ahead).
Tip: on a 4-inch cake, a short message looks cleaner than a long sentence.
Message ideas for a Korean cake (up to 25 characters)
- Happy Birthday
- love you
- You're my person
- Best Mom Ever
- Best Dad Ever
- Proud of you
- Still cute at 30
- كل عام وأنت بخير
- أحبك أكثر من الكيك
More ideas in what to write on a cake.
Same-day Korean cakes in Riyadh, Jeddah and beyond
- Same day: lunch boxes and the 4- and 6-inch shapes are regular sizes, so you can order them for today while a slot is open. Each slot closes when it starts.
- Slots: 9am–2pm, 2pm–7pm and 7pm–midnight.
- Outside Riyadh: book the morning slot by 11pm the day before.
- Vanilla: needs a day's notice and is available in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam only.
- Cities: we deliver in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar, Al-Ahsa, Makkah, Madinah, Buraydah and Unaizah, with branch pickup everywhere except Unaizah. See cakes in Riyadh and cakes in Jeddah.
- Fees: delivery is 29 SAR, free on orders from 300 SAR.
FAQ
What's the difference between a Korean cake and a regular cake?
A Korean cake is small and simple: one soft colour, a short message or light doodle, and it comes boxed. A regular cake is bigger and usually more decorated.
Do you have ready-made Korean cakes?
Yes, our lunch boxes: with Hearts, Love Hearts, Birthday, Heart and more. All are 4 inches and serve two.
How many people does a Korean cake serve?
A 4-inch cake serves two and a 6-inch cake serves four. For one person, there's the 2-inch Mini Heart Ring Box.
Can I write my own message?
Yes, up to 25 characters. On the lunch boxes it goes on the cake; in Design Your Cake, on the cake or the board.
Can I order a Korean cake for today?
Yes, while a delivery slot is open. Outside Riyadh, book the morning slot by 11pm the day before; vanilla needs a day's notice.
Ready to surprise someone? Pick a lunch box above, or design your own Korean cake now. 🎂
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