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18 Powdermill Street, Kestrel Bay
+1 555 210 4478

Today at the counter

Raspberry Atelier6 in · 12 servings · $84

The cut tier is real geometry, not a picture: three sponges, two bands of cream and a line of cherry jam.

Open today 08:00–19:00

Cakes cut to order, layer by layer.

A small patisserie on Powdermill Street. Everything is baked in the room behind the counter, and every whole cake can leave as one slice.

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2016Baking since
4.9★380 reviews
7 daysCustom cake notice
$7.50Slice of the day
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The counter

Whole cakes, and everything by the piece

Whole cakes are baked to order on the morning you collect them. Sizes are the baked diameter; servings assume a dessert slice, not a wedding sliver.

Whole cakes

Collect from 10:00

  • Raspberry Atelier

    $84

    The showpiece: ivory glaze, cherry drip, raspberry cream between three sponges.

    6 in · 12 servings

  • Raspberry Atelier, large

    $132

    The same cake in three tiers, finished with sugar pearls and candles if you ask.

    8 in · 20 servings

  • Cocoa & Sea Salt

    $62

    Dark sponge, salted caramel cream, a thin cocoa glaze that cracks under the knife.

    7 in · 14 servings

  • Pistachio Rose

    $68

    Pistachio sponge with rose buttercream and a handful of crushed nuts on the rim.

    7 in · 14 servings

  • Cherry Vanilla Layer

    $58

    Vanilla sponge, sour cherry jam, vanilla cream. The one that leaves fastest on Saturdays.

    8 in · 20 servings

  • Lemon Poppy Loaf

    $24

    Baked in a tin, glazed warm, sold whole or in thick slices from the tray.

    10 slices

By the slice & the box

All day, while they last

Slice of the day

Cut from whichever cake is standing on the island.

$7.50per slice

Macarons, box of 12

Six flavours, pick them yourself at the counter.

$28box

Éclairs

Cherry fondant or dark chocolate, filled to order.

$5.50each

Berry tart, 4 in

Shortcrust, vanilla cream, whatever berry is good that week.

$9each

Cupcakes, box of 6

Buttercream piped the same morning, no fridge overnight.

$21box

Tasting box

Five slices for a custom-cake decision, at the table or to take away.

$35credited
Coffee is $3.20 and refills are free if you are eating something we baked. Cakes on the counter after 18:30 go out at half price.
Flavours

Two creams go on, one flavour comes off

Every morning two buttercreams are scooped onto the marble and worked together until they read as one. Pick a pairing and watch the scoops find each other.

The buttercream tray Raspberry & vanilla · 18 scoops scoops merge on contact

Pairing of the day

Same flavour meeting same flavour grows. Two different ones give ground to each other. The small cherry cores never grow at all — they only cool what they touch, which is exactly what a sour cherry does to a sweet cream.

  • A scoop is $4.50, three on a plate with a warm waffle is $12.
  • Any pairing goes into a cake at no extra cost — say it when you order.
  • Made in 4 kg batches twice a day, so nothing sits overnight.
The cut

We would rather show you the inside

A glazed cake tells you nothing about what is under it. Open one and the whole recipe is on the cut face: sponge, cream, jam, sponge, cream, sponge.

Six bands, in order

This is the Cherry Vanilla Layer, 8 in, twenty servings. Press the knife and the halves fall open the way they do on the marble — and stay open, so you can count the bands.

  • Three sponges, each baked separately and trimmed flat before it is stacked.
  • Two bands of vanilla cream and one thin line of sour cherry jam.
  • Glaze goes on last, warm, so it holds the drip shape as it sets on the rim.
Cherry Vanilla Layer · 8 in Whole · 20 servings drag to turn · click the cake
Custom cakes

Tell us the date first, then the cake

Notice is the one thing we cannot compress: sponges rest overnight, glaze sets overnight, and a tiered cake is assembled the morning it leaves.

Single tier

from$120
  • 6–9 in, 12 to 24 servings
  • Any flavour pairing from the tray
  • Piped message, fresh fruit or a sugar ribbon
  • Two rounds of changes before we bake
Lead time7 days
Most ordered

Two tiers

from$240
  • Up to 45 servings, two flavours
  • Drip finish, pearls, candles, fresh flowers
  • Tasting box $35, credited against the cake
  • Boxed for transport, board included
Lead time10 days

Three tiers

from$460
  • 60 to 110 servings, three flavours
  • Internal dowels, assembled at the venue
  • Sketch and a costed quote before deposit
  • Cutting slices prepared for the kitchen
Lead time21 days
+25%Rush order inside 72 hours, when the oven has room
$18Delivery inside Kestrel Bay, before 11:00
$45Setup at the venue, tiers assembled on site
30%Deposit to hold the date, the rest on collection
Our bakery

A narrow room, two ovens, one long marble bench

SUGAR & SALT opened on Powdermill Street in 2016, in a shop that had sold buttons for forty years. The counter is the whole shop: nine metres of glass, the bench behind it, and two ovens that start at four in the morning.

We keep the range short on purpose. Six cakes, five pastries, one pairing of buttercream a day — that is what two bakers and a pastry chef can make properly before the door opens.

Nothing is frozen and nothing is bought in. If a cake is gone by two in the afternoon, it is gone; we would rather sell out than bake a second batch in a hurry.

— Ines Varga & Tomas Reyner, bakers
2016Opened on Powdermill Street
9People in the room at 4 am
4.9Average from 380 reviews
1,240Custom cakes since opening

What we will not do

  • Fondant sculptures. We do not have the hands for them and we would charge you for the learning.
  • Next-day tiers. A stacked cake needs a night of rest or it leans by the time it is cut.
  • Copies of another bakery's cake. Bring the photo as a direction, not as a brief.
What people say

Three of the 380 reviews

Collected from the cards left in the jar by the till. First names only, as written.

★★★★★
They asked what the cake was for before they asked what flavour. It arrived at the hall at ten, exactly as drawn, and the pistachio was not sweet at all.
Delphine R.Two-tier, 45 servings
★★★★★
I came in for coffee and left with a slice of the cherry layer three days running. On the fourth they saw me at the door and started cutting.
Marcus T.Regular since 2019
★★★★★
My daughter is allergic to nuts and they walked me through the whole bench, what is made where, what they could not promise. Honest answer, good cake.
Yuki H.Birthday cake, 6 in
Visit

Powdermill Street, between the bridge and the market

Eight seats inside, four on the pavement when it is dry. No bookings for the tables — they are first come.

DayHours
MondayClosed
Tuesday08:00 – 19:00
Wednesday08:00 – 19:00
Thursday08:00 – 19:00
Friday08:00 – 19:00
Saturday09:00 – 20:00
Sunday09:00 – 15:00
Order

Order a cake — tell us the date

We answer by email the same working day. Nothing is charged here; the deposit is taken in the shop or by phone once the sketch is agreed.

If the date is inside a week, write it anyway. Rush orders happen when the oven has room, and we will tell you within a few hours whether yours does.

Before you write

  • Servings, not size. Tell us how many people; we will pick the diameter.
  • Allergies in the notes. Nut-free and gluten-free sponges exist, but the bench is shared — we will say plainly what we can promise.
  • Collection or delivery. Delivery inside Kestrel Bay is $18 and lands before 11:00.
Monday is our day off, so no collections or deliveries then. Everything else in the week is open.
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We will confirm by email and have the sketch ready before you come in.

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FAQ

Asked at the counter every week

How far ahead should I order a custom cake?

Seven days for a single tier, ten for two tiers, twenty-one for three. Inside 72 hours we can sometimes still take it, with a 25% rush charge, but only if the oven has room that morning — ask and we will tell you the same day.

Can you work around allergies?

We bake a nut-free sponge and a gluten-free sponge to order. The bench, the mixers and the ovens are shared with nuts and wheat every day, so we cannot call anything allergen-free — we will always say exactly what we can and cannot promise before you pay.

Do you deliver, and do you set up at the venue?

Delivery inside Kestrel Bay is $18 and arrives before 11:00. Setup at the venue is $45 — for three tiers it is not optional, because the cake travels in parts and is stacked on the table it will be cut on.

Can we taste the flavours before deciding?

Yes. The tasting box is five slices for $35, eaten here or taken away, and the $35 comes off the price of the cake if you order within a month. No appointment needed — ask at the counter any day we are open.