Cookies and cupcakes and cake pops, oh my.

A new bakery opened on 309 E. Grand Ave. in October. Owner Liz Zea took her culinary creations to Downtown Eau Claire, naming the shop Butter B Bakery as an inspiration and attribution to her mother’s butter cookies.

Offering an assortment of treats, all desserts are made fresh each day, featuring different tastes to accompany the everyday flavors of chocolate, red velvet and vanilla.

Butter B Bakery welcomes cupcake flavor ideas, promoting a “cupcake-of-the-month” contest where a new flavor is inspired a local person’s idea.

Open on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m., the cafe offers a seating area, a “Sweets Studio” for people to decorate treats themselves or host parties and the ever-present aroma of the dessert delicacies, beginning in December.

Along with the dessert-style goodies, there are hot teas, apple cider and coffee available for purchase. People can also call to place an order 48 hours in advance.

Zea wanted to bring fresh-tasting desserts and her grandmother’s recipes to the downtown area, feeling as though there weren’t many dessert options available to the community.

“I’m really passionate about cooking and baking and there wasn’t a spot downtown yet to go and sit down and have a cupcake or some sort of a pastry or dessert, so we thought we would give it a shot,” Zea said. “We were just hoping to start a place in Eau Claire for people to come and get sweets.”

Zea looks to draw in local college students with promotions such as buy 11 treats and the next is free, as well as bringing in your Blugold identification card for 10 percent off your first purchase.

Describing the location “a cool little spot,” Zea said she hopes it becomes a place where students like to visit.

“I hope it becomes a place that parents come to with their kids or people start making a weekly tradition to come in for cupcakes or stop in to decorate a gingerbread house for Christmas and things like that,” Zea said.

Prices at the bakery range from $1 to $3.25 with the exclusion of coffee cake priced at $4; making Butter B Bakery an affordable place to get desserts.

Junior communications student Kelsey Holmquist said she is interested in going to the new local bakery, expressing how enticing the sweets are due to the low cost.

“I would definitely go (to Butter B Bakery), I’m all for discovering new places in Eau Claire to explore, especially if it includes sugar,” Holmquist said. “I also think this could attract students because people in college do not have time to go and spend a lot of money at a restaurant, so why not go to somewhere fun and cheap?”