Tuesday Around Town

The Butter Cream Cottage

Owned By: Rachelle Daugherty

The Butter Cream Cottage is a cake baking and decorating business in Oliver Springs. This cake business began in January 2011 by Rachelle Daugherty. I have been blessed enough to photograph Rachelle and her family a couple of different times. They are so much fun to be around. Rachelle herself is as sweet as can be and has decorated some cakes for my "Smash the Cake" sessions. Rachelle does a fantastic job with cakes and cupcakes - she made my Eli's Spongebob cake for his 2nd birthday. As you can tell he was one satisified customer!

You may contact The Butter Cream Cottage by calling Rachelle at 865-661-8514 or you can
 e-mail her. She is also on Facebook. Take a look at her work! (Photos are from TBCC's Facebook page and were not taken by M&B). Weddings, birthday parties or special events - The Butter Cream Cottage has the cake for you!

Check out The Butter Cream Cottage on Facebook for a special deal she'll be announcing soon! You don't want to miss out. Through email, I was able to interview Rachelle and ask her a few questions.

Meet Rachelle Daugherty of The Butter Cream Cottage!

 Why did you start your business?

I started baking cakes when the 3rd company in a row I worked for closed the door. I had been with this last company for 5 years. They closed in November of 2011 and Chase’s birthday was that following December. The lady who normally made my cakes was no longer doing cakes and since I had time on my hands I decided to try to do his cake on my own and realized I could do it and loved it!

What is a goal you have for your business this year?

I would love to be able to take on more orders learn, new techniques and possibly branch out with cookies and candy as well. Who knows maybe even throw some fudge in there somewhere.

If you could bake a cake for anyone in the world, who would it be? Why?

If I could bake a cake for anyone in the world.....I  haven't really thought about that... let's say at this point in time Buddy off the cake boss. Just so I could meet him and he can tell me what I can do to improve.

How did you choose your business name?

My name... I wrote down all kinds of things that had to do with cakes and put them together... I had not planned on doing anything as far as a Facebook page or things like that. I figured it would just be word of mouth but friends and family and people who saw my work kept telling me I needed to make a page... I wanted something different. Not something that someone else had. I wanted to stand out so with that I came up with The Butter Cream Cottage... butter cream is the most common icing and I make them out of my house so that's where the cottage came from  BUT I can't take full credit! I also had help from my Facebook friends and family. I threw a couple names out there and asked everyone what they thought. The Butter Cream Cottage just had a good ring to it.