Custom Petit Fours Boxes

Sizing Custom Petit Fours Boxes

Petit fours are typically between 25 and 40 mm across and 20 to 40 mm tall. Measure your largest piece, including decoration on top, and add a few millimetres to each cell so pieces drop in without catching. The lid should clear the tallest decoration by around 5 to 10 mm.

Common layouts are boxes of four, six, nine, twelve or sixteen pieces. Square grids of nine or sixteen look elegant and balanced; a box of six in two rows is a popular gift size; slim boxes of four suit favours and individual servings. If you sell mixed selections, cells sized for the largest piece let you mix freely.

If you want to show the selection, a window lid is worth the small extra cost. Petit fours are one of the few products that sell almost entirely on looks.

For gift boxes, consider the order of the selection as well as the count. Alternating colours or flavours across the grid looks more deliberate than grouping all of one kind together, and the box should be designed so that each cell is equally visible when the lid lifts. Our guide to measuring products for an insert covers headroom above decoration.

Board, Coatings and Print

Petit fours boxes are usually made from white folding boxboard, which keeps a clean, bright look and prints crisply. For a premium feel, a rigid lid and base box wrapped in coloured paper makes a lovely gift box. Food-contact grade board is available on request, and grease-resistant coatings help with buttery pieces.

Designs for petit fours boxes tend to be restrained: a small logo, a pastel or deep colour, perhaps a pattern or a single illustration. Foil on the logo, a ribbon tie or a sticker seal finishes the box nicely. Printing a menu card listing the flavours, placed inside the lid, helps customers know what they are eating and saves questions at the counter.

A rigid box with a lift-off lid suits higher-priced selections, while a folding carton with a tuck lid keeps costs sensible for counter sales and large events.

Match the ribbon or seal colour to your brand for a finished look.

Catering and Events

Caterers use petit fours boxes for wedding favours, corporate events and conferences, where a small box at each place setting looks generous without much cost. Hotels and tearooms use them so guests can take home what they did not finish at afternoon tea, which is a nice touch that guests remember.

Patisseries sell boxed selections at the counter and online. For posting, the petit fours box goes inside a sturdy shipping carton with cool packs if needed, and the dividers do the main job of keeping each piece intact.

Event planners also use them as wedding favours with the couple's names printed on a sleeve or sticker, so one box design serves many weddings.

Tearooms sometimes print a small line inside the lid suggesting how long the pieces are best enjoyed, which helps guests treat them well at home.

Packing and Handling Tips

Fill boxes as close to serving or collection time as you can, and keep them chilled if pieces contain cream. Use tongs or gloves to place each piece so the decoration stays perfect. Close lids gently; a lid that presses on a decoration is a sign the box is too shallow.

If customers will carry boxes for some time, a tuck lid or a ribbon tie holds the box shut, and a carrier bag that keeps the box flat stops pieces sliding to one side.

For multiple boxes at an event, a stackable design with a flat lid saves table space in the kitchen and makes transport to the venue easier.

Keep a few spare boxes on hand at events for guests who want to take extra pieces home. Larger pastry selections are packed the same way in bakery boxes with card dividers.

Measure the Tallest Decoration, Not the Sponge

Petit fours boxes fail at the lid, so measure your pieces to the top of the tallest decoration, a sugar flower or a piped swirl, and tell us that height along with the width of the largest piece; the cells are cut a few millimetres bigger and the lid sits 5 to 10 mm above. Choose the grid by how you sell: four in a slim row for favours, six for a gift, nine or sixteen for a square selection. Say if pieces are square or round, since that decides slot dividers against cut-out inserts.

Send the sizes, the count per box, the insert type and quantity, and a custom quote comes back by email within one working day, with boxes from £0.25 and low minimums quoted per job for one-off events. The free proof shows the box and the insert layout, and a flavour card inside the lid if you want one. Production takes 4–7 working days after approval and tracked delivery to UK mainland addresses is free, taking 2–3 working days. Misprinted or damaged boxes reported within 10 days are reprinted or refunded. Éclairs and choux from the same kitchen go in the longer choux boxes with grooved inserts.