About this vendor
The Goose Chase Cake Design is a bakery based in Waitsfield, VT, serving couples marrying in the Mad River Valley and throughout the state. Owner and pastry chef Sarah Auger uses fresh, high-quality ingredients in each dessert, ensuring moist, fluffy cakes and pillowy buttercream. She is inspired by the beauty of the local environment and strives to continue developing her skills.
Sarah studied at the Culinary Institute of America and after graduating in 2009, she worked in bakeries from San Francisco to New York City. She enjoys baking and decorating cakes and various other desserts to delight wedding couples and their guests. This pastry artist is passionate about creating beautiful and delicious treats, and she is happy to customize a cake as sweet as your love.
The Goose Chase Cake Design creates both cakes and desserts tailored to your tastes and theme. Sarah is a talented decorator who works with frosting and other decorations to design cakes that look as good as they taste. You and your future spouse can choose from flavors like vanilla, chocolate, maple caramel, or even gluten-free flavors like rosemary polenta and almond.
Details
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Cakes & Desserts
- Cake Delivery & Setup
- Cake Tastings
- Cupcakes
- Groom's Cakes
- Other Desserts
Dietary Options
- Gluten Free
- Nut Free
- Organic
- Vegetarian
Awards and Affiliations
3-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2023.2022.2021.
Best of Weddings
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Sarah was so amazing to work with! We reserved Goose Chase for our wedding at Trailside Inn in Killington, VT in August 2025. Sarah’s selection of flavors are so good you literally...
cannot go wrong with anything you choose. We did a cake tasting a few months before and left so happy because everything was so good. We did a small 2 tiered cake with other dessert bar options. Our guests raved about the cheesecake squares and flavors of our wedding cake/cupcakes. We actually intentionally over ordered hoping to have left overs, but they were so good our guests consumed all of the extras before the end of the night! She nailed our birch tree design for our outdoor VT wedding theme. Sarah was great to work with, so kind, quick to communicate, and coordinated with our venue so I did not have to do any extra planning for the big day. Book her!
Sarah was so great to work with, adding us on after our initial baker could not do our wedding anymore. Everyone devoured the desserts and it was such an easy and seamless process.
My husband and I are big dessert people. When we had our tasting with Sarah, we knew we were in for something special! Our lemon poppyseed cake with citrus curd filling and vanilla...
frosting was simply divine. We couldn't get enough of it! The three-tiered cake looked gorgeous and was exactly what we dreamed of. We set aside the top tier, excited to freeze it for our first anniversary, but it was just too delicious to wait! We ended up digging into it as soon as we got home. Working with Sarah was such a delight, and we can't recommend her enough!
First of all…wow! Sarah is an incredibly talented baker that made our “Fall in Vermont” vision come through with all of her delicious treats. Sarah is a very calming presence that ...
helped make the planning process very smooth. From the moment we tasted one of her cakes at Lareau’s couple’s weekend, we were so excited to work with her. We then got to sample a few of our future desserts at our personal tasting and were blown away. Sarah made our rehearsal dinner carrot cake which was phenomenal. We went with a dessert spread for our big day that included pumpkin whoopie pies, her signature maple blueberry cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, apple tartlets and gluten-free shortbread cookies. Every morsel of that table was consumed! Thank you Sarah for helping make our vision come true, we are so grateful!
Sarah made dessert for our wedding at Lareau Farm and she was amazing to work with. I wanted a vintage-style, heart-shaped cake, and she brought my vision to life perfectly. Not on...
ly was our cake delicious (we chose vanilla summertime), but she also made THE BEST donuts that we served as a late-night snack. I highly recommend Sarah if you’re looking for a cake designer/wedding dessert caterer.
Sarah was a dream to work with! Not only is she the sweetest, most lovely person, her desserts were simply AH-MAZING! Everything was absolutely delicious and so beautifully present...
ed. Our guests were raving about her desserts for many weeks after our wedding! Sarah is simply brilliant, and I cannot recommend her enough!
Working with Sarah / Goose Chase Cake Design for our wedding was such a treat (pun intended)! She brought our vision to life with her creative cake design that also tasted AMAZING!...
! My family (me included!!) has a huge sweet tooth so we knew it was important to offer different desserts. Everything tasted DELICIOUS and our dessert table was wiped clean. Sarah was easy to communicate with leading up to the wedding. We knew we wanted a birch cake and gave Sarah creative freedoms and she created a whimsical woodland masterpiece (her mushroom meringues are incredible!!). She also let us do a tasting which helped us narrow in on flavors. She was patient with me throughout all the changes I made and answered all of my questions. Highly recommend Sarah / Goose Chase Cake Design for your wedding dessert dream!!
Sarah is the absolute best! We hired her for our September 2023 wedding and the dessert was both stunning and delicious. We had a variety of desserts (carrot cake, summertime cake,...
cookies and cream cake, apple cider donuts, chocolate chip cookies, and vegan GF chocolate cupcakes). We sampled all of them and they were all AMAZING (flavorful, moist, delicious). Our only regret from our wedding day is that we didn't set aside more dessert for ourself to snack on later - our guests loved it so much that it was all gone at the end of the night! Also, I don't know what magic she put into the GF/vegan cupcakes but I could not tell they were GF/vegan. In addition, Sarah was a pleasure to work with. She delivered and set up the dessert and the table looked amazing. I can't wait to order desserts from her again in the future!
Oh my C A K E! The Goose Chase Cake design made the most delicious cake and desserts that I have ever tasted, and they were beautiful to look at! My husband and our guests agree!
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Our wedding was in June 2023. We loved working with Sarah, she made sure our order was perfect from the start, answering all of our questions, to the finish when she delivered our items to a mountain top giving proper attention to every detail along the way. I’ll continue to use The Goose Chase Cake Design for any Vermont baking needs, and you should too!
Sarah did the most awesome job on our wedding cake and macrons. All the desserts were delicious, beautiful, and well done. We specifically wanted a "purple tree" cake, and she real...
ly delivered! We got so many compliments on it and the cake flavor was so good (lemon poppyseed with lemon and blueberry filling!). She also went out of her way to make some unique macron flavors for us (maple, strawberry, chocolate, and funfetti!) and all of them were a huge hit. The venue saved the top of the cake for us and we ate half of it over a couple days of our honeymoon and it was awesome. We also had a wonderful tasting with her where she gave us three sample cakes that we even got to take home and walked us through everything she could do - it was so fun. She was kind and incredibly responsive throughout wedding planning! I super highly recommend Sarah to make any of our special event treats!
Our cake was FANTASTIC. We can’t wait to eat the topper on our anniversary. Sara is so friendly and easy to work with. We had two cake flavors (carrot and cookies & cream) and had ...
some DF/GF cupcakes for guests with allergies. Everyone was raving it was the best dessert they’ve had at a wedding. I recommend Sara to anyone who I hear is getting married in VT.
Everything was delicious and beautiful! We had a small wedding cake along with a bunch of individual sized desserts for a dessert table. We highly recommend working with Sarah if y...
ou're looking for some amazing sweet treats!
We decided to forgo a traditional wedding cake for a coffee cake, cupcakes and tarts - def the right choice for us. Everything was delicious - the apple tarts disappeared instantly...
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We had done a few tastings before meeting with Sarah … and as soon as we tried her desserts we knew the search was over! Her cake flavors are diverse and bright. Her other desserts...
are just as good - macrons, creme puffs, magical meringue mushrooms … everything was delicious. Our guests could not get enough of her yummy offerings and literally licked her display clean! Seriously - her Chocolate ganache was also irresistible.
Sarah made the most incredible cake for our wedding!!! We had a fun, playful and personalized tasting and then Sarah created a large cake for our big day - four tiers, three diffe...
rent flavors and customized it to exactly what we wanted. The cake came out absolutely beautifully - we had her do her special pressed flowers on it for decoration. And not to mention, the best-tasting wedding cake ever! It was literally completely eaten - I have never seen that happen at any wedding! Guests were telling me they had multiple slices! I cannot recommend Sarah enough! Looking forward to enjoying desserts from her in the future!
We would absolutely recommend Sarah and The Goose Chase Cake Design for any wedding or special event! The whole process of working with her went incredibly smoothly, with good comm...
unication and willingness to adapt and try new things to meet our requests. She is just a lovely person. The final result was an absolutely stunning dessert display, that not only looked fabulous but tasted incredible. We had a 3-tier cake in 2 different flavors and 4 different mini-desserts. Our only regret is that our guests gobbled them up so quickly we didn't get to try them all! They told us they were delicious. So, order more than you think - you will need them. ;)
Sarah is so professional, her cakes are gorgeous, and her flavors are absolutely scrumptious! We ordered “Vanilla Summer Time” for our wedding cake and then made cupcakes availabl...
e to the guests in “Maple Caramel” and “Cookies and Cream” flavors. All of the cupcakes were devoured and were such a hit with our guests! Her cake design for our wedding captured our thoughts perfectly and matched the mountains that surrounded us at the venue. Sarah even delivered all the cupcakes and cake to us in Southern Vermont! We highly recommend her!
Oh my God, Sarah is the most talented baker around! She was able to bring our vision to life! It's a good thing we ordered extra cupcakes because people were going up for seconds ...
and they all went. Her delivery fee was so reasonable and it was so amazing not to have to stress about how the cakes/cupcakes were getting to the venue. Thank you Sarah!
Sarah's cake was delicious and beautiful! We got the lemon poppyseed with fresh berries and cream cheese frosting and it was absolutely delightful. The cake itself was also just st...
unning and elegant. Sarah was a breeze to work with and even delivered the cake to our venue.
Sarah's desserts are delicious! We were from out of state so we booked her before our tasting, and everything we tried was delicious! Her carrot cake ended up being our favorite. W...
e asked her to decorate our wedding cake with florals and donuts (my favorite dessert) - and Sarah made it look beautiful! The cheesecake bars, lemon meringue tarts and cinnamon donuts rounded out our dessert table, and everyone loved all of it! The desserts were a big hit at our wedding!
Sarah from The Goose Chase Cake Design did the most amazing job on our cake! It looked beautiful and more importantly tasted amazing! We didn't do a tasting before booking since we...
aren't local to VT and it didn't line up with any of our other wedding planning visits so I went solely off of reviews and pictures when making a decision. I'm so happy we decided to go with The Goose Chase Cake Design and I hope to have the opportunity to try more of Sarah's delicious desserts in the future!
We wanted a simple cutting cake for our wedding - we already had a dessert table, so we didn't need anything elaborate. We contacted Sarah about making us a carrot cake with cream ...
cheese frosting and it was absolutely, beyond words delicious - my only regret is that I didn't eat more! She even added some sweet flowers to spruce up our simple cake.
Goosechase is an especially convenient option for couples getting married at Lareau Farm, as she works right on the property!
A way over due review for Sarah and our September wedding with the most amazing cakes! Sarah took the time to meet with us as a couple, get to know us, welcome our family try her d...
elicious cakes, and get to know our vision for our day. First of all, the cakes were delicious, second, they were beautiful! Sarah took the time to understand our vision. She painted the picture for the display and helped walk us through each step. We were beyond happy with Sarah, her delicious cakes, and her work professionally. Highly recommend Sarah to help you with your special day!
As the bride, most of the night is a blur, but apparently the desserts were a huge hit! Sarah was easy to work with and delivered without a snag.
From start to finish, Sarah was a super friendly, organized, and talented partner who helped bring our cake vision to life! Our venue was a flight away from where we live, so when ...
we were only in town for a few days to plan and Sarah had other events, she dropped off our cake tasting options directly to the venue so we were able to squeeze it in! Highly recommend!!
Sarah was awesome, cake was beautiful and tasted amazing! We did the cookies and crème flavor and it was a hit!! She even decorated the cake with flowers from our florist--it was g...
orgeous. She was prompt and easy to plan with over email. 10/10 recommend!!
Working with Sarah was an absolute pleasure! She was so kind, knowledgeable, and quick to respond. You can tell that she loves what she does! She made the most beautiful tiered bir...
ch tree wedding cake, a separate gluten/dairy free cake, and vegan cupcakes. She went above and beyond and absolutely nailed our vision! We got pumpkin and carrot cake for flavors. Everything was absolutely delicious and our guests were raving about them! I would highly recommend her!!
Sarah was a dream to work with and her cupcakes were so delicious! She clearly loves what she does. Sarah baked an array of cupcakes for us to taste beforehand, which was really fu...
n. Her pricing was very reasonable, I highly recommend working with Sarah.
For our wedding, we did a desert table and had a tasting with Sarah who is lovely and everything was perfectly delicious.
Okay I will admit my husband and I did not actually get a...
desert the night of the wedding-- but that is because our guests devoured them and all night we heard from everyone how amazing desert was. We already plan to do an order so we can have the cupcake, brownie, meringue and cheesecake again!
We HIGHLY reccomend The Goose Chase Cake Design!
DELICIOUS! That is the only way I can describe Sarah's cupcakes! They were a total hit and everyone went back for seconds and even thirds! We had incredible fall flavors to offer t...
o our guests and they were loving every bite! The frosting was to die for! It was so rich and creamy. Sarah was a pleasure to work with and was able to capture the exact flavors we were looking for and played a role in making this wedding a dream come true! If you are looking for amazing desserts, look no further than the Goose Chase Cake Design!
Working with Sarah of The Goose Chase Cake Design for our wedding was an absolute dream. Her cakes and other treats are DELICIOUS. It was a hard decision after our tasting, but we ...
went with one of Sarah's signature Vermont flavors: maple caramel cake with blueberry compote and espresso buttercream. She designed our three-tiered cake beautifully with naked/minimal frosting and perfect placement of flowers from our florist. Sarah's flavor creativity also shined with our other dessert offerings, including blueberry tarts, maple mocha tarts, and classic chocolate chip cookies. All fantastic.
As if Sarah's baking talents weren't enough, she is extremely organized, quick to reply to emails, and an absolute pleasure to work with. Moving forward, we will continue to order her cakes and other desserts during our visits to MRV.
Sarah is amazing! She is so accommodating and helpful. Not only was our wedding cake beautiful and everything we wanted, it tasted delicious! She’s very flexible and helpful and gr...
eat to work with! We will be ordering more cakes from her in the future for other events as well. 10/10, highly recommended The Goose Chase Cake Design!
Sarah's Maple Caramel cake (Maple caramel cake with blueberry jam and espresso buttercream) turned out to be my husband's absolute favorite cake when we tested cakes. All of the ca...
kes she prepared for us were incredible, but that's what we went with for our cutting cake. Our guests also raved about the cupcakes Sarah made for our wedding: cookies and cream, vanilla, and rosemary polenta. Sarah is attentive, flexible, extremely talented, and I would pick her cakes every time for special events. We loved the maple caramel cream so much that I ordered a small one for my husband's birthday before the wedding, which Sarah made despite it being very late in the ordering part of her week. Thank you Sarah!
Sarah was awesome working with my husband and I picking out flavors and set up an absolutely gorgeous display for our ceremony! She was super helpful and honest when talking us thr...
ough quantities and types of desserts available for our number of guests. She was great from start to finish and one of the most commonly asked questions I’m getting after the wedding is where we got our desserts! I highly recommend Goose Chase Cake Design for all your dessert needs 🙂
Sarah was such a delight to work with! From scheduling the tasting to ordering to day of, she was polite, professional, helpful and honest. With 200 guests, we decided on a large ...
3 tier wedding cake, with flowers from our florist, as well as 2 types of cupcakes, all to be arranged on a dessert table. We went with her 3 signature flavors after the tasting. I had complete confidence in Sarah and her ability to complete this beautifully and she did not disappoint! Her work was absolutely stunning as well as delicious. I received so many compliments from family and friends on all the cakes/cupcakes. As one guest said "I don't know how you captured summer in a cake, but you did it!!"
We had a small, outdoor, relatively low-key wedding but I wanted an awesome cake and Sarah definitely delivered! She also made us French macarons, the perfect addition to our desse...
rt table. Both the cake and the macarons were delicious, beautiful, neat, and professional; clearly the work of a very skilled baker. Lots of positive comments from our guests on both. Sarah herself was also professional, responsive, and easy to work with. I'd recommend her services to anyone.
Sarah made us an insanely delicious cake. We had a tiered vanilla cake, with layers of fresh fruit and passionfruit curd , and vanilla buttercream frosting. It looked and tasted am...
azing. She was super easy to work with and we would highly recommend.
Blew my mind! My dream wedding cake came out exactly how I envisioned it! (: She is very easy to work with and is talented as to create what you are looking for! She kept in contac...
t with us the entire time. Not once did I feel like I wasn't sure what process was happening. Also, very reasonable in price!
Sarah couldn’t have been more amazing! We had to scrap our large wedding for an elopement with just the two of us for safety reasons. We waited as long as we possibly could before ...
we decided to just elope because of the virus, so she had only one month notice! She was willing to do a virtual tasting with us and even mailed us delicious macaroons! I wish we could give her 100 stars!! Highly recommend!!!
Sarah was extremely easy to work with, and that was just the start...trying to put together a last minute elopement had us almost forgetting to get ourselves a small but memorable ...
cake. But a last minute call to Goose Chase Cake Design resulted in a tastier and more beautiful creation than we could have imagined. We didn't try anything in advance, and trusted Sarah that her Blueberry Rosemary Polenta signature cake was both interesting and delicious. I know it wasn't just the excitement of the moment that made it so wonderful, since we were able to enjoy it for more than a week afterward in perfect, equally sweet condition! To top off the experience, she found wildflowers in her own garden to put on top of it - even in Mid October! They paired so well with our cake topper that she placed for us upon pickup. When we have our larger celebration after the pandemic, we will be sure to use her again!
Sarah's cakes are absolutely divine! I wanted something that would look good and taste great, and our cake checked both of those boxes. We loved it so much, we ate the cake top o...
n our honeymoon - it was too delicious to wait another year!
Her prices were fair & affordable, the cake tasting was amazing, and coordinating everything with Sarah was a breeze. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to any of my friends when they're in the wedding cake market.
Sarah from The Goose Chase Cake Design was a pleasure to work with from our initial meeting, cake tasting and delivery/set-up of our wedding cake and other variety of desserts we o...
rdered. We wanted the cake decorated with a hydrangea theme and she couldn’t have done a better job creating just what we envisioned with dozens of handmade fondant hydrangea flowers. The attention to detail was impressive and the cake was delicious! We also had order an array of cookies for our guests and there wasn’t a single one left by the end of the night. Since our wedding we have ordered birthday cakes and holiday treats from Sarah. Delicious, high quality and affordable- you will not be disappointed!
Sarah was amazing to work with! A native to Vermont, her authentic eye was exactly what we were looking for in the details of our dessert for our small wedding. She was so accommod...
ating in suggesting a cookie cake instead of a traditional cake —it was the talk of the night! Definitely would recommend her your wedding, or any special occasion! I’ll be calling her for my birthday order.
The wedding cake Sarah handcrafted for our wedding was perfect! We wanted a simple design accenting our wedding flowers and incorporating a New Orleans tradition which she did flaw...
lessly. Not only was it stunning but it tasted amazing as well-even after we froze some for our first wedding anniversary! I would highly recommend The Goose Chase Cake Design to anyone.
Best Cupcakes EVER!
For our wedding, Sarah graciously accommodated all our wishes, crafting two different flavored cupcakes plus a small cake for us to freeze and enjoy for our on...
e year anniversary. The cake and half the cupcakes were red velvet with cream cheese frosting: the perfect balance between sweet and tangy. With the other half, Sarah went all out with the decoration. She made vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting that she piped on top in the shape of sunflowers, which matched my bouquet and tied in seamlessly with our decor. They looked amazing and tasted even better. They were so good that for our 5th annivarsary this summer we ordered two dozen red velvet cupcakes. We were able to enjoy them with our families all over again and they lived up to our memories :) If you are looking for any sort of cake for your wedding, anniversary, birthday, or just because, look no further than Goose Chase Cake Design!
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