BUTTERED MARSHMALLOW
Hoppen Hierarchy:★★★★
District: Home baker
Custom and Signature Cakes
Perfect For: Baked Goods; Casual Dining; Takeout
Standout Dishes: S’mores Cake; Magical Chocolate Buttered Marshmallow Cake
What if I told you the best cakes in Omaha weren’t coming out of a restaurant kitchen, but a home setup?
Or that their creator isn’t a pastry school graduate and hasn’t worked a day in a professional kitchen?
That may sound crazy. But once you take a bite of a Buttered Marshmallow cake, you toss logic out the window. All you’re worried about is placing your entire attention on each morsel to fully experience these flavors.
Owner Stacey Leick always enjoyed cooking and baking, saying on the Restaurant Hoppen podcast, “That’s just something that I did.”
But Leick got so much positive feedback on her cakes that she decided to try selling them. Within 5 minutes of putting a note on Facebook that she would be taking cake orders, a purchase had been made.
As her sales and baking ability grew, so did Stacey’s desire to pursue the craft full-time. So she left her corporate job and dove headfirst into Buttered Marshmallow, a move most would deem extremely risky.
Those people haven’t tasted one of Buttered Marshmallow’s signature cakes.
Business exploded, and with good reason. Each creation starts with a brilliant base: a cake that is altogether moist and tender, yet also firm and not crumbly. It has the right amount of sweetness when paired with the other ingredients without going overboard.
The other standout of Buttered Marshmallow’s cakes can be found right in the name. Marshmallows might seem to be an odd addition to a cake at first, but these sticky pillows add a toasted, smoky butteriness that is reminiscent of a s’more. Cakes are (obviously) naturally sweet, and the smoky flavor of the marshmallows bring balance to these cakes.
No cake better showcases this than the S’mores Cake. With a graham cracker base, Ghiradelli chocolate ganache, and the famed toasted marshmallows laced between its layers, this cake instantly transports you to a campfire. A graham cracker crumble around the exterior adds texture, and the marshmallows truly sing in this application.
The marshmallows also highlight the business’ standard bearer, the Signature Buttered Marshmallow Cake. This white cake has torched buttered marshmallows baked into the cake, and the caramel (both drizzled atop the cake and placed between the layers) adds a sticky richness.
Chocolate fanatics will fall for Sarah’s Chocolate Dream Cake, the ultimate exploration in all things chocolate. The chocolate chip cream cake is dense and rich, but it’s lightened by a chocolate buttercream that is so airy and silky that it nearly rises off the cake. The kicker is the rich, velvety Ghirardelli chocolate ganache (studded with chocolate chips, for texture) between each layer.
Another chocolate-forward option is the Magical Chocolate Buttered Marshmallow Cake, a name that only seems over the top until you taste it. The cake itself is moist and fluffy, and the chocolate adds a rich sweetness with just the slightest bitter note. The Ghirardelli chocolate buttercream is light, airy, and not overly sweet, and drizzles of caramel add sticky pops of sugar. The brilliant marshmallows just send it over the top.
Buttered Marshmallow offers a wide variety of signature cakes, including Pink Champagne, Rainbow, Coconut Cream, Key Lime, and more. It also allows you to build personal cakes with various sizes, fillings, icings, toppings, and fruit decorations.
Orders are placed at butteredmarshmallow.com and can either be delivered or picked up from Stacey’s home (address provided upon purchase).
Buttered Marshmallow’s story may be unconventional, as is its signature marshmallow topping. But whatever road led Stacey to committing to baking full time, Omaha is lucky for it. With flavors like these, culinary background doesn’t matter. More important is how quickly you can shovel another bite into your mouth.