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Cake room & bakery · Fitzroy

Come for a slice.
Stay for the whole ridiculous cake.

Nine layers, wonky edges, far too much butter. Everything is baked each morning in the little room you're sitting in.

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Two hands holding a cookies-and-cream layer cake
Real butter, always Ovens on at 5am Nine layers as standard Absolutely no fondant Walk-ins welcome
An overhead tray of miniature fruit tarts, freshly finished

Our story

It started with one tin and a stubborn idea.

In 2011 we rented a shopfront with a broken oven and a very good sponge recipe. We still use the recipe. We fixed the oven. Everything that leaves this room is made by hand, in this room, on the day you eat it.

— Mara & Josip

Real butter, no exceptions

Cultured, unsalted, and far too much of it. There is no margarine on the premises and there never will be.

Baked before you're awake

Ovens on at five. Whatever is on the counter at nine was made that morning — and when it's gone, it's gone.

Small batches, wonky edges

Nothing here is machine-smoothed. If a layer leans a little, that is a person's hand, not a fault.

Made entirely in-house

Jams, curds, praline, ice cream, the lot. The only thing we buy finished is the coffee beans, and we're picky about those.

The dining room: bentwood chairs, plants and a long marble counter
You will queue, and you will not mind. The black forest alone justifies a trip across town — and the room feels like someone's unusually well-lit kitchen.
Broadsheet Melbourne, Best Bakeries of the Year

Good to know

The things people
ask at the door

Both. We hold half the room for bookings and keep the window bench and the counter stools for walk-ins. Weekends before eleven are usually fine without a booking; after that, expect twenty minutes.

Come and sit down

Book a table

Tables for one to six online. For anything larger, or for a whole cake, give us a ring — it's faster and you'll get Mara.

We hold tables for ten minutes past the hour.

Find us

118 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065, Melbourne

Opening hours

Wed – Fri
8am – 4pm
Sat – Sun
8am – 5pm
Mon – Tue
Closed (we rest)

Whole cakes & events

Forty-eight hours for the standing list, a week for tiers. Wedding tastings run Tuesday afternoons.

hello@butterandbloom.com.au

A small marble table by the window with a coffee pot and cups

the window table, if you're lucky