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Cake Boxes for Cake Portions

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($2.01–$12.26) — Cake Boxes for Cake Portions doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

49
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Market size 33Growth 22Conversion 64Competition 55Returns 93Price range 0Avg price 21Brand share 63Review moat 88Quality gap 52
This niche Category average

Is Cake Boxes for Cake Portions profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Cake Boxes for Cake Portions is a £155K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (364K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 67% of demand. Verdict: Skip it — 49/100.

Cake Boxes for Cake Portions: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -6.6% over the last 90 days and 5.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£155K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr20K
Search volume / yr-6.6%364K
Conversion rate5.7%
Avg price£7.42

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 67% of demand, so 33% of the market is open.

33%

open market share

Brands · sellers20 · 28
Top-5 product click share52%
Open market33%
Avg brand age28 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 31 products

Sponsored placement77%
New entrants (1y)3· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.4★
Avg reviews247

Top Cake Boxes for Cake Portions products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 52% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£8K£15K£23K£31K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

28

Top-5 brand share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

28%

  • Surflyee29%
  • SOL20%
  • Maridergo7%
  • winbest6%
  • ZQuintuplian5%
  • JOYSKY5%

Cake Boxes for Cake Portions demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume364KCVR5.7%Products31Brands20Top 5 Brands67%OOS Rate13.8%Rating4.4★Reviews247Avg BSR#179
9K7KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Top Cake Boxes for Cake Portions search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • cake boxes for cake portions96K/yr
  • cake slice boxes73K/yr
  • small cake boxes37K/yr
  • cake packaging20K/yr
  • individual cake boxes19K/yr
  • mini cake boxes19K/yr
  • cake slice boxes for cake portions13K/yr
  • cake slice box12K/yr
  • individual cake slice boxes11K/yr
  • cake takeaway boxes9K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cake Boxes for Cake Portions

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

90% of reviews
Size-Overall22%

Great size and convenient

Quality-Overall18%

Good quality arrived on time

Value For Money16%

Great value

Assembly/Installation11%

Strong and easy to put together

Strength7%

Strong and easy to put together

What buyers complain about

83% of reviews
Size-Overall41%

my cakes wont fit

Thickness9%

Quite thin

Quality-Overall8%

However, the quality of this is rubbish

Strength8%

I had to cellotape the bottom they were that flimsy

Assembly/Installation4%

assembling them is a nightmare

Cake Boxes for Cake Portions return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

1.1%

Return rate

83%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
79%
2Quality-Overall
4%
3Functionality-Overall
4%
4Strength
3%
5Advertised Vs Actual Product
2%

Common Cake Boxes for Cake Portions questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Cake Boxes for Cake Portions 49/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £155K/yr across 31 tracked products. 0 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -6.6% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Cake Boxes for Cake Portions on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.4× the quietest.