Butter Crumbs Cakes & Pies — Restaurant in Mount Lawley

Edit 8 April 2023.

4.5 stars

Came here at 10am. Earlier than last time I was there. There were more cakes and savoury food on display. The newest pictures starting from pic 6 - 9.

Bought three different slices of cakes. The basque cheesecake (my fav still), strawberry shortcake - yum! my second fav and chocolate peanut roll. The strawberry shortcake is the most expensive - $9.20 per slice.

There is a card surcharge.

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It's a small-ish cafe. Not many variety of food/ dessert on offer. Inside of the shop was hotter than outside. It's rather stifling. I am assuming it's more of a take away shop as there's hardly anyone and this was during lunch hr.

There was no menu on drinks. I had to ask what's available for drinks. Chose ice chocolate but it tasted rather runny. Probably too much milk not enough cocoa. For dessert, I picked basque cheesecake slice. I had been wanting to try their basque cheesecake. It didn't disappoint. It was yum. It was not overly sweet which is good because you don't get that bleugh feeling after eating such a rich dessert. Price was slightly high but I am willing to try their other dessert/pies next...

We spent my husband’s birthday in Perth this year and I ordered the basque cheesecake. Visually it looked right, and nicely decorated, but it was not a basque cheesecake. The centre was dense, instead of that delicious gooey centre basque cheesecakes are meant to have. It’s just an average cheesecake and it’s fine if you’ve never had one before. Dissapointed that this came recommended by Broadsheet.

Edit: calling it a basque cheesecake is a little misleading. It’s like selling a Black Forest cake and saying we never claimed that it would have cherries! Or selling tiramisu and saying I never said it would have coffee in it!

For reference, living in Melbourne, we get ours from Prahran market and it doesn’t have to be...

soosooo delicious i cant even explain. Th pastries are so light fluffy n moist they literally taste like, like an ancient civilisation that was religiously dedicated to making pastries and only the top creators were able to sacrifice their pastries to the gods, and then a family started consistently being able to be the top pastry sacrificers so they started guarding secret ancient pastry recipes and honing their craft over the generations and writing their secrets on a stone stele locked in a cave. n then thousands of years in the future they dug up these godly recipes n then passed them onto top french pastry chefs mmmm yes 💖 this is what they taste like ughhhh so...