Cake box with handle dieline

About this dieline

A cake box with handle is the tall bakery box you carry home by an arch on top: cupcakes, a small cake, cake slices or a few pastries. It is one sheet of board, glued once down the side. At the top, the two side flaps fold in and meet in the middle, and the half rings on their edges stand up back to back as the handle; then the front and back flaps fold over and the handle goes up through the slits in them. Nothing on top is glued, so the box opens and closes again.

Enter the length, width and height of the box and the board thickness, pick a self-locking or a snap lock bottom, and download a print-ready PDF with cut and crease lines. The handle, the flaps and the slits are sized from the box, so any size closes and carries.

Common sizes, length × width × height: 102 × 102 × 102 mm (4 × 4 × 4 in) for one cupcake, 178 × 102 × 102 mm for two, about 150 × 100 × 150 mm for cake slices and 200 × 130 × 90 mm for a few pastries.

Is the handle part of the height?

No. Height is the walls, from the bottom to the flat top. The handle stands above that, a little over a third of the width tall.

Which bottom should I pick?

Self-locking (also called crash lock or auto bottom) is glued once at the factory and pops into place when you open the box: quick behind the counter. Snap lock (a 1-2-3 bottom) needs no glue: you fold its four flaps in by hand, and it ships flat.

Cake box with handle sizes: tall bakery boxes with an arch handle, a cupcake to a layer cake →