Cakes & Barrages

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Quick answer: Firework cakes (also called barrages) are single-ignition, multi-shot fireworks – light one fuse and the cake fires a sequence of aerial effects automatically. They're the most popular type of consumer firework in the UK and the core of most home displays. This collection has over 150 individual cakes from £5.99 and 50+ compounds from £79.99, covering F2 (8-metre safety distance) and F3 (25-metre) categories. Firework Cakes and Barrages – Single Ignition, Multiple Shots Firework cakes do the heavy lifting in most consumer displays. Light one fuse and the cake fires a sequence of shots automatically – anywhere from 9 to over 600 individual bursts depending on the piece. No relighting, no manual timing, just one ignition and the whole sequence runs itself. That simplicity is a big part of why they're the best-selling firework type in the UK. Prices start under £10 for compact garden cakes and go up to several hundred pounds for heavyweight 1.3G barrages and multi-row fan cakes. We also stock over 50 compound fireworks in this collection – compounds combine multiple cake sections into one piece with a single fuse, so you get the longest continuous displays going. What Actually Determines How Good a Cake Is? Shot count is the number people tend to look at first, but it can be misleading on its own. A 100-shot cake in this collection costs anywhere from £8.99 (Screeching Missiles – a rapid-fire F2 with tiny 4mm tubes) to £239.99 (CC0476 – an F4 with wide 40mm tubes). Same number of shots, completely different fireworks. The single biggest factor in what you actually see in the sky is bore size – the diameter of each tube. Wider tubes hold more pyrotechnic composition per shot, which means bigger bursts and more colour spread. Here's how bore size breaks down across this collection: Bore Size Burst Size Typical Price Typical Category Under 20mm Small – tight bursts, good for rapid effects Mostly £6–£17, some up to £70 Mostly F2 20–24mm Medium – visible indiv

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