The Buttery

what they're known for). I only wish we had more to take home!

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a slight issue with the flowers our florist dropped off her to use and handled all the communication with the florist to ensure the flowers on the cake were prefect. I highly recommend the Buttery!!

e with cream cheese frosting as our wedding cake and then the same as cupcakes as well as chocolate with Marion berry filling as cupcakes and people were LOSING it over how good they were. They were also so beautiful. They delivered to our venue and made the whole process so easy and seamless. We very highly recommend the buttery!

, cherry and marionberry pies. Our wedding cake was lemon poppy seed with Italian buttercream which was delicious. We will definitely be using and visiting The Buttery every chance we get!

gs in the area. The Buttery was able to accommodate our request to have both a cake to cut and 6 different flavors of cupcakes, and even worked with our florist directly to add some flowers to the cake! The cupcakes were one of the most raved-about part of the wedding and were SO good that they were all eaten before the end of the night! They were easy to work with, accommodating for our many requests even during COVID, and make some absolutely delicious cakes! I would highly recommend them for your wedding cake and cupcake needs!

compliments from everyone on the variety of choices and the flavors, ie lemon tart, eclairs, cupcakes, cookies & cake pops. Delicious!!!! If I had one critique it would be the total number of items we ordered. We had a lot left over. So, would have been helpful if the bakery could have assisted us in a final count of items.

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The flavors and textures were unparalleled and the design was fresh and flawless. Our guests knew from their first bite why we drove down to Santa Cruz from San Jose to pick everything up the day before and could not stop at one flavor option. We ordered a single-tier Neapolitan cake with buttercream frosting as well as Mint Chocolate, German Chocolate, and Chiffon Marionberry cupcakes. We will be enjoying cake from The Buttery on every upcoming wedding anniversary! Thank you!!

had envisioned it! The cake tasting was so helpful and the baker we worked with was patient and listened to our ideas and found us the perfect mix to make our delicious cake. Will definitely be using The Buttery again in the future.

as both delicious and beautiful and they delivered it on time with no problems.

chocolate buttercream frosting. The cake turned out exactly how I wanted it and eceryone was friendly and super easy to work with! The carrot cake was the biggest hit (not your average carrot cake!) sooo good!!

all of our guests really enjoyed it. Jill was a delight to work with as she has such a great eye for detail.

. It was four tiers and two different flavors. I recommend the carrot cake and the chocolate fudge.

ived, and wasn't at all phased that we were a same-sex couple. The consultation room is very nice - it's away from the hustle and bustle of their very busy bakery, well lit, and there are nice display cakes in a variety of styles and colors to give ideas. Jill started by showing us a picture book of their work and also collecting information from us/giving us information. This part took about 30 minutes. We had some vague ideas, but nothing very solid, and this was the first of our three appointments. Jill was able to guide us through the design process and helped us make decisions. She was also very accommodating - there were a few things we weren't ready to decide, and that was OK. The best part, of course, was the tasting! We got to try 8 or 9 different flavors, along with a couple of filling options in little cups. The presentation of the cakes was really nice, but what we ended up appreciating a lot was the portion sizes - each slice was quite large. We ate less than half of each while we were there, and Jill packaged up the rest for us to take home. This actually made a really big difference - we did a second tasting on our own the next day. It helped a lot to refresh our memories (and taste buds) about what everything was, and we actually had slightly different opinions the second time around than we did the first time. The options were all delicious. We ended up choosing two flavors: - the chocolate cake with the chocolate ganache filling, and we added the ollalieberry jam with whipped cream as a second filling - the carrot cake (which they make with coconut in it. Sounds kinda strange, but it's AMAZING!!!) Now, I'm a cake person - I love cake in general (if it's good cake). The Buttery's carrot cake is the best I've ever had, and the chocolate cake was also in the top 3. My wife, on the other hand, isn't a cake person. She doesn't like cake. She eats it sometimes if she has to. She especially doesn't like carrot cake, and she HATES coconut. She LOVED both flavors of cake we selected. Need I say more?? :) We were very happy to have plenty of leftover cake after the wedding - it took us weeks to polish it off and we were sad when it was all gone, although the scale is better for it. On Jill's advice, we got a separate "keeper" cake for our 1-year anniversary. It was delivered to the aquarium along with our main cake, but it was already pre-packaged by The Buttery's staff - the cake itself was wrapped in plastic, then boxed, then bagged in more plastic. I'm pretty sure it would keep for way longer than a year in our freezer. I'm also pretty sure it'll meet an early demise. We were extremely pleased with every aspect of our interaction with Jill and The Buttery - we will definitely be repeat customers, and highly recommend them to anyone getting married or needing a cake for any special event.

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d colors we needed to complete our Beach themed wedding. The cake was absolutely gorgeous and everyone raved about the taste and intricate starfish/shell design. Their Carrot, Neapolitan and devils food with chocolate ganache & caramel mousse was absolutely a cake connoisseurs dream. It was wonderful to work with such a great team of people. This bakery has it all, great pastries, cakes, cupcakes, sandwiches and coffee to make everyone happy! A true Santa Cruz gem!

n is exactly what we wanted!!!! We froze our top layer for our one year anniversary. I will definitely be back for another anniversary to recreate a smaller version of our cake! If you like carrot cake.... This one is the best!!!

s were dry & dense, but the Buttery's cakes are moist & flavorful & delicious. Their buttercream icing is tasty & goes on so smoothly you don't NEED to suffer that pasty fondant coating to get a pretty cake. Our design sessions/tasting was tough since we didn't come prepared but their portfolio gave us enough to close on an idea we both liked - and their execution day-of was perfect. It looked beautiful, tasted great, and arrived on time. With wedding cake, it's expensive, so minus a star for value, but if you're settled on wedding cake the Buttery is the way to go!

ideas, I didnt full grasp the overall image of what the cake looked like...until I saw it. And it was stunning!!! It was so perfectly done that people actually thought it was fake. Oh, and I can't forget the taste. It was DELICIOUS!! I can't wait for my 1st anniversary so we can dig into the top teir that's in our freezer. And yes, I have gone back to The Buttery since our wedding in May and have had more of their amazing desserts. I absolutely recommend The Buttery and for more than just wedding cakes.

initely not worth the calories. The Buttery is your cake destination! We were able to go cake testing and taste 7 different flavors. We chose two for our cake. Jill, the wedding cake consultant was awesome to work with and listened to what we wanted. Our cake was EXACTLY what we wanted. While we had some great recommendations prior to choosing the Buttery, we are so glad we did! I will use them for other events in the future hands down!

viewing their wedding cakes gave excellent reviews. My fiancee and I showed up five months before our wedding for our cake tasting consultation. We got 8 giant slices of cake of varying flavors and frostings- way more than we could possibly eat in one sitting. The coordinator actually gave us a box to wrap the leftovers in so we could enjoy the extra at home. We were given the option to mix and match flavors and frostings as we wanted, and could even vary the type of cake in each tier of our wedding cake. We ended up picking a white chiffon cake with white cream and ollaiberry jam for the middle tier, and a devil's chocolate cake with chocolate fudgy ganache and ollaiberry jam for the other two layers. She showed us three different photo albums of cake designs, as well as encouraged us to bring our own pictures and color swatches. We didn't have anything particularly specific in mind, but we settled with a basic white cake with floral and berry cuttings (including blackberry vines/berries). The day of the wedding the cake was delivered without a hitch that I'm aware of (I was busy getting ready for the wedding). It was the best wedding cake I've ever tasted- I will gladly boast that to anyone. I'm generally unimpressed with most wedding cakes- they usually taste plasticy or boring. Not mine. =D Thank you!

person. We had a lot left over. But, it's the best red velvet cake that I've ever had!

rrot cake and red velvet and they were very accommodating to our special requests to have walnuts mixed in with the carrot cake layers.

e. They have a delicious selection which was nice since my husband and I have different tastes - he's all about chocolate to the max and I like something a little lighter. I just brought in a picture of what I was looking for and it came out beautiful! If you haven't had one of their cakes then I recommend trying one just because and their expertise definitely follows through to their wedding cakes. Their staff is always friendly and easy to work with. Definitely a pleasure.

and their product is 1000 times better. Jill is professional and friendly. The cake tasting was amazing - we had leftovers just from that for days. Guests adored our selections of their famous carrot cake and chocolate cake. The cake was elegant and they worked with my florist to design a fresh floral topper that matched my flowers. I can't wait to dig into the anniversary tier in the freezer!

oose Carrot Cake & Chocolate Cake and yum yum yum yum! Our guests loved our choices and I was a little bummed that we didn't have alot of cake left over. I wanted more :). Jill at The Buttery has been there a long time, knows her stuff, and even went above and beyond to help me surprise my parents with their own wedding cake to cut at my wedding in honor of the 50th Wedding Anniversary. I'm looking forward to my one year anniversary, just so I have an excuse to get a small cake. Also, they recreated the picture of I cake I had brought in and did a fantastic job duplicating it. THUMBS UP for The Buttery!

most all of them were out of this world. It was almost a problem that we had to narrow it down, because we wanted to use ALL of them. We ended up choosing three and they were perfect. Then we chose the design. They didn't force me into fondant, which I can't stand, and they were still able to make the design I wanted. Sweet! I also ordered a groom's cake in the shape of a football, and it was one of the most spectacular things I've seen. They did such a wonderful job with both cakes, and the service was great. I will absolutely drive to Santa Cruz for my next cake!

e Buttery, then you haven't had real cake!

I had pictures and everything, the cake was soooo yummy and we paid half of the total cost before we left. Well I was very surprised by the customer service I got after that first meeting. I called several times, left voice messages and written messages..I needed to know what kind of ribbon to get and when they needed it by. The first message I left also informed her that I had sent in the rest of what we owed and the map to the venue. Around the fourth time I tried to get a hold of her, we finally talked and she was clueless on what kind of design I wanted, told me I hadn't sent in to rest of what I owed(which I know they had received because they cashed the check) told me I needed to send in a map to the event(which I had sent along with the check and then rushed me off the phone because she had another consultation...I could go on with all the things that happened there after, but I wont. The only reason this is getting any stars is that the cake was excellent. But customer service sucks!!

te chiffon cake and 1 layer of flourless chocolate cake and we had ollaliberry filling inside. It was so good!

d like Nutella, yum!), covered with white chocolate buttercream then covered that with white fondant with cobalt blue damask design. I brought a paint swatch of the exact color I wanted, and they made it happen. Tasty, beautiful, what else could I ask for??

we were not disapointed. You know how at most weddings, you can't really remember what the cake tasted like or even if you ate any? Not the case here. Our guests not only finished every last bite of our wedding cake but asked us where it was from and how to get more (really!). Needless to say, it was a big hit. The only one drawback was delivery. My wedding was in San Francisco, about 70 miles from Santa Cruz. The Buttery would not/could not deliver, so we had to scramble to find someone to take it up for us. The Buttery did try their darndest to find someone we could hire to deliver for us, but in the end no one came forward. They also helped us design a cake that could withstand some travel. Fortunately I had a brave friend willing to take on the responsibility, but just something to keep in mind if you are planning to use the Buttery for a wedding outside of the Santa Cruz area. If you are looking for a SUPERB cake that people will be talking about for a long time to come, a beautiful cake at a reasonable price, go to the Buttery.