Bear Brook Bakery


Price per serving

Starts at $11 per person. The minimum spend is $1,200 total.


About Bear Brook Bakery

Melissa Estes

Owner and Lead Cake Artist

Bear Brook Bakery is a home-based cake studio serving Maine and parts of New Hampshire and Massechusetts. Specializing in beautiful custom wedding cakes, gourmet cupcakes, and a unique selection of decadent and delicious sweet buffet options. Nearly any design is possible, from grand wedding masterpieces to creative novelty sculpted cakes and carefully styled dessert tables.

I believe that a cake should look amazing and taste even better, which is why I bake with real cream and butter, fresh fruits, and quality chocolate. Our rich buttercreams, ganaches and marshmallow fondant are all made from scratch. It's more than just a cake to me, it's baking delicious memories for you to share with your loved ones.


Services

Dessert types

  • Cakes
  • Cookies and macarons
  • Cupcakes
  • Mini desserts
  • Pies
  • Novelties and other

Decor options

  • 3D sugar work
  • Cake toppers
  • Custom text
  • Fruit topping
  • Live flowers
  • Sugar flowers

Available customizations

  • Cake filling
  • Cake flavors
  • Cake frosting

Services offered

  • Consultations
  • Delivery
  • Setup
  • Tastings

Dietary accommodations

  • Dairy-free
  • Gluten-free
  • Vegan
  • Vegetarian

Reviews

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  • The Dessert Buffet of My Dreams

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    •Michelle A.•Jul 19, 2024

    I knew very early in my wedding planning process that we did not want a traditional wedding cake and wanted to have a dessert bar instead. I am so grateful to Melissa at Bear Brook Bakery for giving us that option - once I saw photos of her work and menu on her website, I wanted no one else and I'm ecstatic she was available and worked with us. Melissa's desserts were honestly one of my favorite parts of the day. Like...second to actually getting to marry my husband. I was getting ready as she dropped things off and set up so I didn't get to see them until I walked into the reception and I was absolutely blown away. The cookies, cake shooters, mini pies, etc. that we ordered looked absolutely tantalizing. Everything was delicious but my personal favorite of the treats that night were the vanilla bean tarts topped with fresh fruit. They were perfection. I loved, too, that multiple guests came up to me at the reception to rave about the dessert bar and how delicious everything was. My dad, who had initially been a little put off that I wasn't doing a traditional cake, came up to me after a few minutes at the dessert bar to tell me that the mini blueberry pies were amazing and he wouldn't doubt me again (haha). For me, wedding cakes have never been memorable. Having been to a dozen weddings in my life, I just don't remember any individual cakes tasting great or looking so beautiful that they stuck in my mind. Melissa's dessert bar though? I don't see myself or my guests forgetting that anytime soon. Melissa, you're amazing and if I were planning this wedding again, I wouldn't work with anyone else for desserts.


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