Sweet Butter Baking
Areas of Service
New MexicoCelebrate & Eat Cake!
Sweet Butter Baking was named Best Place to Order a Wedding Cake in New Mexico 2024 & 2025 by NM Wedding Collective/Southwest Wedding.
Creating wedding cakes for Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, Sweet Butter Baking is a professional, licensed bakery specializing in beautiful and delicious wedding cakes. Sweet Butter Baking will bring your vision to life and provide desserts your guests will be talking about for years to come.
Owner and Pastry Chef Andrea Schulte has over 20 years of experience making stunning wedding cakes.
Sweet Butter Baking features specialty cake flavors that Andrea created for NM weddings, such as The Land of Enchantment Cake, NM Chocolate Decadence Cake, and New Mexico Champagne Cake. Please ask about these when you inquire. A few other popular cake flavor choices include Raspberries & Cream, Luscious Lemon, Vanilla Creme Brulee, and Honey Lavender.
All cakes are made by hand using the highest-quality ingredients (most organic, non GMO, seed oil free). These delicious cakes are finished with Andrea’s light, buttery Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Sweet Butter Baking allows couples to create a custom cake or choose a cake style from their online cake shop. Design options can include classic & smooth, textured, vintage piping, painted & piped buttercream, rolled fondant, stencil overlay, or edible gold leaf for a contemporary aesthetic.
Andrea encourages interested couples to get in touch to explore their options.
Additional Features
Heart Shaped Biscochitos, French Macarons, Mini Pies, Raspberry Linzer Tarts, and Cupcakes perfect for a dessert bar.
Recognition
Albuquerque, NMFAQ
Where to begin for a Custom Wedding Cake?
The first step is to submit the inquiry form to check your date and availability with Sweet Butter Baking. Once we confirm availability, Andrea will you send you an initial price estimate for your desired cake and the details for a tasting/design meeting if desired.
How much will my Custom Wedding Cake cost?
Pricing is dependent on design. Wedding cakes start at $12.00 for a full buttercream finish, with upcharges for custom hand-painted, hand-piped, and custom designs. Fondant designs start at $18.00 for fondant finish. Pricing will vary based on complexity of design and involved labor. Wedding Cupcakes, French Macarons, Mini Pies, Cookies, and Back-up Cake Tiers are also offered at various price points. Dairy Free, Vegan, and Gluten Friendly items are available upon request. Your custom wedding cake order comes with a complimentary 1 year anniversary cake.
Post tasting and design?
Andrea will email you a contract and invoice. If you have decided that Sweet Butter Baking is the right fit bakery for your event, a signed contract and 50% deposit will secure your event on our production calendar. The wedding cake/desserts are not confirmed or booked until a deposit is paid and contract is signed by the specified due date.
How far in advance should I schedule my tasting?
Andrea offers tastings within 12-18 months of your wedding date. Since you finalize the cake design during the tasting, you should schedule your tasting once you have a good sense of the overall theme of your wedding as well as a booked venue.
Do you deliver the Custom Wedding Cakes?
Yes, there is a delivery fee of $25.00 for the Albuquerque, NM metro area within 10 miles from Sweet Butter Baking and an additional $1.00 per mile for areas beyond that around Albuquerque metro area.
Do you deliver wedding cakes to Santa Fe?
Yes, Sweet Butter Baking delivers Custom Wedding Cakes to Santa Fe, NM with a $175 delivery fee as well as a set-up fee ranging from $75-$125. Andrea also has many clients opt to pick up their wedding cake (up to two-tiers) in Albuquerque and transport it themselves to their event in Santa Fe or other parts of the state. A two-tier cake travels well.
When should I order my cake from the Online Cake Shop and when will be be delivered?
Cakes should be ordered by Tuesday’s at 9 am to be delivered the same week on Saturday. If you know what you would like in advance we recommend ordering early as we close off orders when we have met our capacity for the week.
30 Reviews on “Sweet Butter Baking”
Andrea came highly recommended for our wedding cake and desserts and we know why! Our cake was gorgeous AND delicious! She also made my husband’s “groom’s pies” and boy was it a special treat for our guests. She even went the extra mile to find a Texas cut out for toppers. It was delicious, beautiful, and perfect. Thank you!
How excited I was to learn that Andrea had a cake shop when looking for a wedding cake! I had tried items from when she had a pie shop a few years ago and always loved what I got. Plus, she was my pastry chef before I had to leave culinary school. I knew whatever we ordered was going to be absolutely amazing and it was. Not only was I in love with our cake, I adored how she set the cake table with the cupcakes and biscochitos. Andrea’s professionalism, pricing, and gourmet flavors using NM ingredients made Sweet Butter Baking one of our best wedding decisions. Our guests were quite pleased, as well!
We used Sweet Butter Baking for our wedding cake this fall and were blown away with the delicious flavors and the custom design curated for our cake. What we loved most about this company was that all of the flavors had a connection to New Mexico. We ended up going with the honey lavender cake that was sourced from Los Poblanos in Albuquerque and added blackberries. We highly recommend booking a cake tasting as well, so that you can sample all of the delicious flavor options and be able to take the time to go over the design of the cake with Andrea, the owner of sweet butter baking. For our wedding cake, we gave Andrea inspiration based on our wedding theme and colors as well as the design used for our wedding website and through that, she was able to make the custom color palette and design. Andrea is extremely professional, precise, and makes sure all the details are correct before the big day. For instance, she gave helpful instructions on when best to cut the cake, how to cut the cake and thaw time to make sure the cake was ready to cut after the ceremony. Can’t recommend Sweet Butter Baking enough!