About Little Button Bakery
Creating Contemporary Award Winning Wedding Cakes in the north west Since 2012
Little Button Bakery owner, Kate Tynan
By Jenny Appleton Photography
“From start to finish, Kate was amazing. Our cake was a work of art and tasted divine. We can’t thank her enough!”
The person behind the business
Kate Tynan - OWNER & Creator
Hi, I’m Kate and Little Button Bakery is my business. I live in Marple with my husband, two children and our pet sausage dogs and silkie chickens. I created Little Button Bakery in 2012 after starting a family and not wishing to go back to my previous career as a primary school teacher.
I have always loved baking and being creative and set up Little Button Bakery when my children were young as a way to continue working around my family. I wanted to establish a business that I would be able to build up slowly until I could devote more time to it once my children went to school full time.
Little Button Bakery now has a firmly established place in the North West wedding industry and over the years I have won numerous awards for my wedding cakes. My work has also featured in many high profile wedding magazines and wedding blogs. I absolutely love what I do and it is fantastic to be recognised for my work in such a fast paced and highly competitive industry.
I am exceptionally passionate about wedding cakes and strive for excellence and perfection in everything I do. I aim to make the whole process of booking and choosing a wedding cake as straightforward and enjoyable as possible - you can be assured you will be in safe hands! I do run the business completely single handed; from designing and making cakes, to delivering orders, answering emails and managing social media so when you book Little Button Bakery for your cake, it will be me and only me you deal with which I hope adds the ‘personal touch’.
My favourite cakes to make are those that are modern and a little ‘outside the box’. I love hexagon shaped tiers, tall tiers, geometric patterns, metallic leaf and adding a splash of colour. Wedding cakes don’t have to be white! I also really enjoy using and arranging flowers on my cakes particularly fresh or dried flowers.
I hope to chat to you soon about your wedding cake.
“UK Cake Business Of The Year 2020”
“North West Wedding Cake Designer Of The Year 2022, 2020 & 2018”
My ethos and ethics
Image:Jenny Appleton Photography
Kate Tynan (she/her)
Little Button Bakery owner
I would like to start out by saying, that I am inclusive to all couples. Love has no labels, limits, race, gender or colour. I value honesty, integrity, friendliness, kindness and respect. That’s how I try to live my life and run my business.
Beyond anything, I want to provide you with outstanding service and an exceptional product. I personally appreciate, admire and review businesses that give their customers great service. Those that go out of their way to help or to do something over and above to make the client journey memorable. That is what I aim for in my business too.
I have pledged to ‘The Ethical Move’. I will be transparent and honest with my clients, I will not use manipulative marketing techniques and my prices will never be ‘charm prices’.
To find out more about The Ethical Move and what they stand for, click the logo to the left.
“People will soon forget what you said. They will never forget how you made them feel.”
As well as excellent service, I believe strongly in using high quality, higher welfare and locally sourced products in my cakes and bakes. I source a lot of my dairy produce from a farm less than 10 miles away - Hopewall Farm. Anything they don’t produce themselves is sourced from within the North West. All of my eggs are organic from ‘Old Bell Farm’ (the owner of the farm owns my local fish shop) as the welfare and life of organic hens is much better.
All of my chocolate is Belgian and my fondant icing comes from Switzerland. All of my flour and sugar is British.
As of April 2021, for every order I receive over £50, I will plant one tree with More Trees which will offset 0.3 tonne of carbon. Every little helps!
My promises to you:
Excellent customer service
Prompt responses to emails and enquiries
Inclusivity and equality
Honesty and integrity
High quality ingredients and finished products
Locally sourced dairy produce in your cakes
Only organic eggs in your cakes
To plant a tree for every order over £50 I make with ‘More Trees’
If you care about getting a cake that looks amazing, tastes even better and you are mindful of food miles and locally sourced produce in the food you eat, I may be the right lady for you!
The Little Button Bakery studio
Images: Jenny Appleton Photography
Where the magic happens
My gorgeous brand new cake studio and teaching kitchen for cake classes opened in March 2020. It is located in the beautiful town of Marple, close to Stockport, Manchester, Cheshire and Derbyshire.
I have everything I need to design, bake and decorate your dream wedding cake in my perfect wedding cake studio.
From semi naked wedding cakes, to geometric wedding cakes, tall wedding cakes, wedding cakes with fresh flowers or sugar flowers - I have it all covered!
I would love to chat to you in a wedding cake consultation over Zoom, where we can plan your bespoke wedding cake design together.
Image: Jenny Appleton Photography
“We cannot thank Kate enough for the tremendous service we received. The cake was incredible and the whole process from start to finish was outstanding.”
My experience & training
Little Button Bakery was established in 2012.
I specialise in creating contemporary and creative wedding cake designs that are unique to each couple I work with.
I am always striving to improve my skills and learn new techniques.
I work to an exceptionally high standard but there is always something new to learn!
These are some of the companies I have undertaken training with so far:
THE DESIGNER CAKE COMPANY
COTTON & CRUMBS
POPPY PICKERING CAKES
SUZANNE ESPER CAKE SCHOOL
EMILY HANKINS CAKES
DON’T TELL CHARLES
ZOE CLARK CAKES
MEDICI MACARONS
SLATTERY
STUDIO CHOCOLATE
You can rest assured, that if you choose me for your wedding cake, you will be in very safe hands!
“Working with Kate was such a great experience. Not only is she talented in creating the most beautiful cakes but she is also warm and friendly and lovely to work with.”
Recommended at the following wedding venues
We are proud that the following venues recommend us to their couples as one of their preferred suppliers.
Supplier of gin pairing chocolate bars to stockport gin
Fun facts about me
I can ride a unicycle and can juggle
I hate mushrooms - something about the texture! Yuk!
I grew up in Widnes but spent most of my teenage years in Mid Wales
I got an A in German GCSE but can only remember how to say ‘my hamster has died’ - ‘Mein Hamster ist gestorben’ - I have never even had a hamster!
I went to school with the boy from the Accrington Stanley milk advert