The Toad & The Butterfly, a Blog

Goats have a reputation

>Goats being milked for making caramel

 

 

 

 

From our farms to your spoons, it matters what the goats eat.

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A phone call I wasn't expecting

Food & Wine Magazine Article Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Taco Vibes Only

"Have you seen Food and Wine?!"

That was the opening line of the phone call I got as I had just finished setting up our booth at our first New York Fancy Food Show. I was tired and sweaty and definitely hadn't seen Food and Wine.

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We're a little bit busy this week

Butterfly Bakery of Vermont / Fat Toad Farm presentation booth at the 2025 Fancy Food Show
We are at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City this week and, let me say, it's a lot! 2025 is our first year of trade shows and this is our biggest one yet.
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Caramel. Cheese. A little divine intervention

It was... astonishing. The cheese and the caramel both transformed. Sweet, smoky, creamy, savory. It was that perfect bite you didn’t know you were missing. As my husband put it, That’s way better than it has any right to be.

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An unusual trio of micros

What's life without a little wild and crazy change, right? We've got an unusual trio of micros to tell you about.

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Cold brew in the Summer

Fat Toad Farm Cold Brew Coffee Caramel Sauce

There’s something about cold brew when you feel summer settling in — smooth, bold, perfectly chilled — and we’ve bottled that feeling...

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Have you seen our packaging?

Butterfly Bakery of Vermont packaging

It took us years of option weighing and experimenting to figure out how to move away from plastic shipping materials.

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Meet Me! Owner, Founder and CEO

Claire Georges

I'm Claire Georges, owner, founder and CEO of Butterfly Bakery of Vermont. I'm the one who sends out the newsletters and manages social media - I also wear about 50 other hats at any given moment, so my head is always warm.

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🌈 Joy, pride and a site-wide sale 🏳️

Sparkle Sriracha

Our Maple Sparkle Sriracha is grounded in love, joy and pride for everyone who is exactly who they are supposed to be and just the right amount of enough.

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From goat to jar. It's personal.

Fat Toad Farm caramel sauce
There’s something deeply personal about making caramel the way we do. It’s not industrial. It’s not fast. And that’s the point.
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What I'm eating

Maple Wood Smoked Onion Hot Sauce

Like many condiment lovers, I have a fridge door full of hot sauces, mustards, salsas and more. But I always have a rotating cast of current favorites that sit near the front and these are are what I'm noshing on now!

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New micro time!

Bottle of Trinidad Lime hot sauce from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont

We are having a lot of fun in the kitchen these days! We get to be so creative and freewheeling with our micros and folks are gobbling them up fast this year! 

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