The spirit of Christmas is taking over the Capital with the bakeries in the city getting orders for cakes and other special Christmas items. There are varieties of cakes available in the market according to the taste of the costumers.
Owner of old Ellora's Bakery, Surendra Gulati, said that the demand for plum cake is always more than other cakes at Christmas time. "We have four sizes of plum cakes costing from `150 to `550.
Till now we have more than 250 orders for cakes and most of them are plum cakes." Apart from plum cakes various Christmas theme based items like fruit cake, marzipan cake, brownies, fudge, doughnuts, chocolates and others are also available in the store.
Owner of Melting Moments, Mudit Gulati said that plum cake is the traditional cake for Christmas and is always in more demand.
"We have more than 15 varieties of cake and have more than 1000 orders for cakes mostly from schools,"
he added.
He said that customers can buy a slice of a cake costing Rs 25 per slice and the price of plum cake is `500 per kg and plum pudding cost `600 per kg. Cookies in different shapes like stars, socks, bell, Santa Claus and others are also available in the store.
"We have a wide range of cakes at reasonable prices like dry fruit cake, carrot cake and others," he added.
Owner of Nany's bakery Varun Gulati said, "We have a wide variety of pastries specially meant for Christmas. We are organising a Christmas carnival from December 21 to 26. This year we have contemporary Christmas cakes and many special items in our store," he added.
Owner of Ellora's bakery Anupam Gulati said that mostly people buy plum cakes and puddings during Christmas.
"We have various sizes of plum cakes and puddings ranging in price from `20 to ` 1200. Ninety per cent people prefer dry plum cakes as it is a traditional cake of Christmas. Packing and designs of all Christmas items is different this year," he added.