Custom bakery boxes — 500-unit minimum.

A bakery box is a food-safe box for cakes, pastries, doughnuts and bread. It has to do three things at once: protect a fragile product, keep it food-safe, and show it off — which is why so many bakery boxes have a window.

It is used by bakeries, cafés and food brands, and it is one of the few packaging types where the customer often sees the box before the product.

• Windowed boxes — a cut window with a film patch, so the product shows.
• Cake boxes — square or rectangular, with a lift-off lid or a tuck top.
• Pastry and doughnut boxes — flat, with a divider or an insert.
• Gable boxes — a carry-handle box, common for multiple items.
• Kraft food boxes — a natural finish for artisan and takeaway use.

Bakery boxes are folding cartons in food-grade board, printed in one or more colors. The board has to be food-safe, and any window film has to be food-grade too.

Kraft is the common finish for artisan bakeries; white board gives a cleaner surface for full-color print. Where the product is heavy or the box has to ship, a food box with a stronger board is the safer choice.