Wedding cakes & dessert tables — Burlington, Vermont
A tasting at Butter & Birch is a sit-down flight — cake, buttercream and filling side by side on the table, a fork each, and the two of you across from us. Bring the guest count, the venue, and the ideas you have not finished yet.
How a tasting works
We sit you down with the flight in front of you and work through it together — cake, buttercream, filling, and the sweets that would sit alongside it on the day. You talk, we take notes, and nothing gets decided until it has been tasted.
Guest count, season, venue, the colors you keep saving. Everything you already know, and everything you do not.
Cake, buttercream and filling side by side, plus a look at the cupcake and dessert-table extras.
Shapes, heights, finish, and how the cake holds up on the table and in the photographs.
A written plan for your cake and dessert table, and what it takes to hold your date.
Wedding cakes
Custom wedding cakes built around your day — how many tiers, what shape, what finish, what flavor — worked out with you long before anything goes in the oven.
We sketch the cake with you: tier count, silhouette, texture, color, and how it sits with the rest of the room.
Cake, buttercream and filling chosen from the flight you tasted — not from a photograph on a screen.
Smooth, textured or semi-naked, dressed to the style you have asked for, and built to look right in the photographs.
From a small cutting cake to a full tiered centerpiece, sized to your guest count and your table.
Cupcake towers & dessert bars
Cupcake towers and dessert bars for the parts of the day when everyone is on their feet — a run of cupcakes, small tarts and bite-size sweets, arranged so guests help themselves and get back to the dancing.
Stacked and styled as a centerpiece in their own right, in the flavors you chose at the tasting.
A spread along one table, portioned for a crowd, so the sweets keep coming as the evening runs on.
Built to sit with your wedding cake — same flavors, same colors, one table that reads as a whole.
Tasting boxes
If Burlington is a drive, or you would rather taste with family around the table, we pack the flight into a tasting box — the same cakes and buttercreams, boxed up and sent out to you.
Taste at your own kitchen table, talk through the fillings, then book the consultation and we will go from there.
Reserve your tastingGluten-free options
Gluten-free options run right through the tasting and the dessert table, so nobody at your wedding gets handed something different and quietly left out of the toast.
Reserve your tastingGluten-free cake and buttercream sit in the same flight, side by side with everything else.
Gluten-free cupcakes and sweets are made and plated as part of the spread, not kept behind the counter.
A gluten-free tier can stand on the same cake, so every slice comes from the same centerpiece.
Reserve
Tastings are by appointment at the bakehouse in Burlington. Tell us when you are free and what you are planning, and we will set the table.