Buttermilk Baking Company

I’d be game for trying the place again & maybe try one of those cinnamon rolls next time.
But the cupcakes were just not anything great. We ordered a half-​dozen to take home. They were dry and not much taste going on in the chocolate ones. I didn’t try the red velvet. At $ 3 for a single cupcake, it should taste scrumptious, moist and chocolate-​y.
It was a Sunday afternoon, and now I wonder if they were maybe a day old. If so, that’s not legit to charge full-​price for a day-​old baked good.

This is a solid bakery where quality is king over quantity. It’s a small shop with a small collection of, but really good baked goods. The ginger molasses cookies are my favorite, with a good chocolate chip or peanut butter one right behind. The fruit tarts are good as well. It’s clean and the owner friendly with prices that are reflective of the quality and the fact you are in Newburyport.

What a sweet shop! We wanted a little bit of everything, so that’s what we ordered. The cinnamon roll was, hands down, the best we’ve ever tasted. And the Linzer cookies… what I would give to have a whole tray of them with my tea this morning!
Everything tasted so real: the butter, the flour, the sugar. Nothing was overly-​sweet or synthetic. When I read on their website that they bake everything in small batches, it all made sense. There’s a craftsmanship to these treats and you can taste it in every bite.
Some reviews lament the price, but I thought it was worth every penny! We’ll definitely be back.

Very tasty tomato Parmesan scone it was very light and airy after I warmed it up at home. The owner was very nice and let me know they are moving to a bigger store area nearby.

Love their pies ! Their cookies and cupcakes are good.

I can say without hesitation the chocolate log cake is the finest chocolate cake I’ve ever tasted. And it was a hit at the dinner I brought it to for everyone else. All because the hostess said her favorite was any dessert with buttercreme used in the frosting. This was the only place around with it. Fabulous

I’ve come in here a few times and picked up small things. I wasn’t blown away by anything and the prices are on the high end. The thing that will keep me from going back was when I stopped in to inquire about a cake. The website says «can’t find what you are looking for? ask us, we can probably do that too» but don’t count on it, in fact don’t bother. The woman behind the counter on the day I went in wasn’t pleasant and starting shaking her head as soon as I asked about a custom cake even for an event that was a month away. They had a few cake flavors but at $ 40 for a 6″ cake I passed since it wasn’t what I wanted.

This used to be such a great bakery years ago but it’s just ok now. Recently had the fudge cakes that tasted overly sugary that no one could finish them. We’re all chocoholics so it’s rare not to love anything called fudge cakes.
Overpriced and disappointed.

I randomly popped into this place this morning on my way back to NY and bought one the tastiest blueberry muffins I’ve had in a great while. I should have picked up a bunch!

1. Went there on a whim and got a hand pie. It was delicious!!! The customer service was great and the young lady behind the counter said that they could make anything we would like for a cake they would just need time to get the ingredients.
2. Ordered my Dads cake. Lady on the phone needs to work on her customer service. She was very short and said they only make two kinds of cakes. I asked even if I called a week ahead. She said yes. So there website is inaccurate. FYI.
3. The cake. Paid $ 45 for a cake. It wasn’t great at all. The cake was so dry. There was barely any raspberry filling. It was a lemon curd and homemade rasp jam filling.
4. Disappointed.

Awesome little bakery. The real deal. I’m a total snob about baked goods and this place is fantastic. Got the strawberry & peach hand pie — which was crumbling a little so they gave to me for free! Friend got the chocolate mousse tart. Fantastic.

Pricey, but with a reason. Real pie craftsmanship, up their with other pie destinations, like Noon Mark and Four and Twenty Blackbirds (haven’t been to the latter, but I can dream). Had the rhubarb strawberry hand pie, multi-​meals. Although I wish they would skip adulterating the rhubarb with strawberry.

Overall, a pleasant experience. I ordered a biscuit, a cinnamon bun, and a scone. All three you could taste the buttery texture. The baked goods were a bit on the high side, but I could see the effort and skill put in the baked goods.
The bakery itself was very small, but brightly lit. It was very clean and all items were clearly labeled with prices.

Ok. I don’t know how to say this without being overly dramatic… but BUTTERMILK BAKERY HAS CHANGED MY LIFE!!!
Ok that was kind of dramatic. But seriously. Buttermilk bakery’s cinnamon buns have kind of been a game changer for me. Like, I feel like before I ever ate them my life was significantly less fulfilling. Not to mention, their cinnamon and spice cream filled donut is crazy-can’t-stop-wont-stop-eating-it GOOD. The blueberry half-​pies are outrageous. Flaky yet moist crust thats just buttery enough. And I’ve never tried their whole pies but believe me, I’ve had my eyes on the apple one for quite some time now. (I’m keeping my eyes on the pies if you will *hehe*)
Bakeries are kind of my thing (I probably have tried every single one in Boston) and I never thought I would find a bakery to rival Clearwater Bakery in Brookline. Well. I’m really sorry Clearwater (I still love you but) you’ve met your match. Buttermilk is the real deal. They’re using fresh, genuinely good ingredients and their products speak for themseles. Because it’s such a small bakery, you’re never getting old or stale items because they’re constantly rebaking.
And as if the sugary, buttery, doughy, sweets they make aren’t good enough for you… the ladies who I’ve had help me there are always the nicest. people. ever.
Buttermilk, you rock. Never change.

This place comes with a warning — DO NOT BREATHE WHEN YOU WALK IN… Suffice the say, the aroma of FRESH ingredients will cause you to buy. And eat. They have these «petite» three layer cakes (think the top layer of a wedding cake), in all the flavors their older siblings come in. $ 16 bucks. Enough for 6 dieters that want the sugar rush without all the guilt to share with some good tea at the end of a farmers market meal, wine and grilled dead flesh… Or for 4 less than diet conscious, maybe runners who could care less, or 4 skinny can eat whatever they want. Or 2 of the same or 1 VERY hungry sweet toother… You get the picture. Brownies, cookies, cakes, pies… ahhhhhhhh…
So we snagged a coconut cream cake, trekked home, and tore into it upon arrival. And this is why my 5 stars go to those who do what they do EXTREMELY WELL — not too sweet, fluffy, moist cake, delicately «creamed», flaky coconut crunch on their cream cheese frosting… PERFECTION.
It was the aroma of fresh butter, milk, eggs, flour, and love for a craft — truly dedicated to the sugar addicts. It was the aroma. And I don’t even regret the sin.

+: 4 stars for taste and creativity!!! Variety is plentiful with taste to back it up… tried: open face apple pie, key lime pie, salted caramel ganache, peanut butter brownie tart with homemade marshmallows…
-: we would buy cakes, pies, baked goods regularly, BUT: the price for these items are really beyond reasonable! $ 30 – 35 for a pie!!! Hahahhaha… my wallet will become skinny while my @ss becomes bigger!!! :P
Suggestion: try out mann’s orchard in methuen instead!!! U can get just as much variety with flavor for a more reasonable price!!! :)

I love. Love. Love this place. The owner is the Manager, and she shows up to work just like the rest of them. When you walk in all you can smell is the pie crust. During the winter they make sea salt sage biscuits, which are rediculously tastey, hand lies are delicious and gooey and if you get the Bourbon one, you might get a little buzzed. The setup is easy. You walk in, you get great food. You leave. Her cakes are tiered and filled with time consuming delisciousness and she even makes her own caramel (which is insanely good). I don’t do the whole hoity toity BS thing. But Ashley knows wtf she’s doing, and if anyone likes pie or cake; they’re going to love this place.

I needed a cake for a birthday and retirement party for my dad. I exchanged emails with them for two days about the details of the cake I wanted. This all would have gone more quickly except they were really slow in responding to emails. Once we settled on the details of the cake I wanted, I called to give my credit card number. Only then did they tell me they didn’t have the ingredients and couldn’t make the cake. It would have been nice if they didn’t waste my time exchanging emails with them for two days about the details of a cake they couldn’t actually make for me.
Adding insult to injury, when they told me they couldn’t make the cake, they were damned rude about it. No apology, no sense that they had made any mistakes at all. A heartfelt apology goes a long way in these situations.
All in all, this was a pretty serious customer service failure made even worse by how they chose to handle it. I recommend that you choose one of the other cake shops in Newburyport.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this place got good reviews because people think they are supposed to rate it high because its in downtown Newburyport. Well they are just wrong! Food is gross. You can only for taste the lard that they use. A small tart and I mean small is $ 6.50. A full size blueberry pie $ 35! For those prices the taste should be like a slice of heaven.

Don’t even walk in here if you don’t want to purchase something — one whiff of the air in here and you’ll be whipping out your wallet.
I wandered in here with no intent to purchase anything and left with a box of goodies… to celebrate it being Tuesday? No. Because I’m a sucker for baked goods and it smelled so incredible in this store that I couldn’t resist the urge to eat whatever it was I was smelling. With that objective in mind, I cut a near indiscriminate swath through the pretty lines of tortes, pies, cookies, and pastries.
The woman behind the counter is polite and smiling, the various baked goods I sampled were delicious, and it’s a local business. Prices may be a little steep, but I’ll definitely be back for the next special occasion. You know, like it being Wednesday.