The Butter Baker

We are only a couple of weeks from my due date and I just realized I never posted any pictures of the baked goods from my baby shower! I baked everything except for the custom sugar cookies- I left those up to the experts at ! I made two types of macarons: teddy bear shaped macarons with mocha buttercream and dark chocolate ganache, blue macarons with vanilla buttercream and teddy bear sprinkles, double chocolate banana bread and chocolate chip banana bread, chocolate glazed donuts and cinnamon sugar donuts and a cinnamon roll layer cake! Thank you again to for the sugar cookies and our wonderful friends and family for showering baby Theodore and me and my husband with so much love!

My Easter 2023 bakes! Chocolate carrot cake with my sprinkles and carrot cake bars also with sprinkles!

Before it’s a whole new year and I forget to post these, here is my hot chocolate cake from Christmas Eve and the worlds ugliest Yule log paired with homemade little Debbie Christmas tree cakes and cake balls that I made for Christmas. I hope everyone had a happy holiday season and Happy New Year!

My 2022 holiday treat boxes!

The first boxes were filled with a giant chocolate chip cookie shaped like a gingerbread man, hot chocolate bombs, eggnog macarons, peppermint bark macarons with a snow man face, rolo m&m pretzel treats and chocolate stirring spoons.

The second boxes were filled with eggnog loaves, rolo pretzel treats, peppermint bark macarons and holiday m&m chocolate chip cookies.

Weeks of planning, days of shopping and hours spent baking these up, but so worth it! Happy holidays everyone!

Thanksgiving 2022 dessert buffet! Baked entirely from scratch from left to right: pumpkin spice macarons with a pumpkin brigadeiro filling, apple spice cupcakes with a salted caramel frosting, pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting and pumpkin sprinkles!, salted caramel apple pie and a pumpkin pie!

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Chocolate bundt cake covered with a chocolate ganache that I baked back in June and am just now posting! Time flies when you're working and baking I guess🤣

When I baked this cake I just wanted an excuse to use my Heritage Bundt pan. It's still a 10/10!

Homemade oatmeal cream pies

The recipe was quick and easy and omg they taste so good! Thank you for this recipe, it is a 10/10 will be baking them again for friends and family!

Tri-color I made for my neighbor's coworker!

These beauties feature Swiss Meringue Buttercream and a chocolate ganache center. I used teal, yellow and rose gel coloring for the shells!

It's and if you've been following me or know me, you know I love baking please enjoy these donuts I've baked over the past year!


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Exciting things are happening over here!

I have officially rebranded as The Butter Baker! While I am still The Butter Betch at heart, I wanted a new name for the new Cottage Law baking business I am starting! More to come on that. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and on TikTok to follow my next baking adventure!

Lemon Blueberry Bundt cake with a lemon glaze🍋🫐

I was dying to use my new heritage bundt pan (thanks to my friends Michael & Chuck for the wedding gift!) from 10/10 love the pan. This beauty is resting on the a beautiful cake stand my friend and coworker got me! I brought half of it in to work, Swipe to see the note that made my whole week!

Easter carrot cakes ft. my sprinkles!

The carrot patch cake was inspired by & the recipe is from

Swipe to see both cakes up close and my husband and I posing with one of the cakes🤣

My friend wrote a book (a historical fiction)! So she threw a book signing and because the book takes place in Florida she asked me to make citrus flavored treats.

I made:
-Sunrise Citrus Cake: vanilla cake flavored with orange, lemon, lime zest and juices and a whipped cream cheese icing. The cake layers were filled with lemon curd and whipped cream cheese icing
-Cara Cara Orange glazed donuts
-Lemon, coconut shortbread cookies with a lemon glaze
-Whole orange mini-bundts with chocolate chips and an orange glaze

Congratulations to Andrea on her book Vigilance, you can find it on Amazon!

Some of the 330 I made for my wedding!

These macs featured a vanilla buttercream and a chocolate buttercream with raspberry preserves. I spent the entire month of December baking and filling these and we weren't able to use our freezer (it was full of macarons!) for awhile but it was worth it!

The wedding cake of our dreams!!!

Tara at outdid herself with this one! It even features a mini Ollie (our beloved dog). This beauty had a bottom tier that was a chocolate cake with mixed berries and the top tier was a coffee cake with chocolate ganache!

People are still raving about how amazing the cake looked and tasted! Thank you Tara❤❤

One year ago today I made my first batch of I cannot believe it's been a whole year! I spent weeks researching different methods and looking up different recipes and then a few more weeks to build up the confidence to try them- I am so happy I finally did! The first 3 photos are from that first batch in 2021 and the last two are my most recent batches. I made 330 macs for my wedding and in December I tried tri-color macs for the first time.

may be finicky and labor intensive but they really are my favorite things to bake! When it goes wrong, it can be soul crushing. When it goes right, it's the most rewarding feeling! Macarons are a lot like life... highs and lows, but it's about the journey/process. I feel like I learn something new each time I bake these wonderful little cookies! Big thanks to my friends and family for always being willing to try my different fillings and flavor combinations- yall are the best! And thanks to my husband- who is always willing to eat my cracked, ugly or hollow macs, I know it's a huge burden 😂😭

First time baking for fun since early November! Chocolate glazed heart shaped donuts! 🍩 ❤

Got a chance to use my new heart shaped donut pan from and the cake stand my aunt got me from and of course from

2021's cakes and cupcakes!

Thanks for a great year everyone! Lots of growth this year and lots of money spent on baking supplies🤣 Can't wait to see the requests I receive in 2022- and I hope y'all will be with me to see how the journey unfolds!

And to my Instagram & Facebook baking family- thank you for all the tips, tricks and support! I never knew such a supportive group of strangers existed until I created
Cheers and happy baking in 2022 y'all!🥂💕🎉

My 2020 Holiday Treat Boxes vs my 2021 Holiday Treat Boxes!

I'd say I've grown as a baker in the last year, but I kinda regret not making this year!

My 2021 Holiday Treat Boxes!

Gifted these to my coworkers (still have 2 to give out) and a friend of mine!

What's inside:
-Macarons with chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache and candy cane pieces
-Macarons with chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache and marshmallow fluff
-Chocolate covered pretzels with a white chocolate drizzle
-Rolo Pretzel treats
-Eggnog mini loaf with spiced rum glaze

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These might be my favorite I've ever baked!

Tried a new technique and put food dye in my piping bag, I'm very pleased with the results! These macs have a chocolate buttercream and chocolate ganache. Half have marshmallow fluff and half have peppermint candy pieces!

On Saturday my mom, sister-in-law and Maid of Honor/ best friend threw me the bridal shower of my dreams!

I insisted on baking for everyone because they were some of my closest friends and family! Once I started thinking about what I wanted to bake I kinda went way overboard and it turned into 3 tables worth of a dessert bar 😂😭

Here is everything pictured:
Chocolate Cake Pops
Vanilla Cake Pops
Eggnog Mini Loaves some featured a spiced rum glaze and some had a plain glaze
Peanutbutter blossoms
Chocolate glazed Donuts
Pumpkin Spice Donuts with a maple glaze
Gingerbread Cake baked in the shape of Nutcracker Men
Macaron towers:
Chocolate Candy Cane Macs: Macs with Chocolate Buttercream, chocolate ganache and candy cane pieces
Hot Coco Macs: Macs with Chocolate Buttercream, chocolate ganache and marshmallow fluff
Cranberry Orange Macs: Macs with Orange Buttercream and cranberry compote

Seeing some of my favorite people enjoying everything I baked made all the late nights and extensive planning worth it! I even have some extras to bring into work tomorrow

Two-tier dairy free vanilla cake I made for my friend's brother who got engaged over the weekend!

This was my first ever cake made entirely dairy free (allergy related) and my first ever two-tier cake so I was nervous but I think it turned out well! My friends mom came to pick up the cake and brought beautiful roses that I got to decorate the cake with❤

Congratulations to the happy couple! And thank you to my wonderful friend for asking me to bake this cake! It really endded up being a blast!

My Thanksgiving bakes!

A salted caramel apple pie recipe from & a Pumpkin Spice Cake with cream cheese frosting recipe from !

The pie features my first ever lattice crust and my cake's cream cheese frosting kind of melted but it was still delicious!! My cake also featured sprinkles from