Butterbean’s Café is a brand-new CG-animated series for Nickelodeon which centers on a fairy named Butterbean and her adventures running her neighborhood café and bakery. The series features guest voice appearances by top celebrity chefs and culinary experts: Richard Blais (Top Chef, Guy’s Grocery Games), Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America), Carla Hall (The Chew, Top Chef), Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef), Giada De Laurentiis (Giada at Home) and Rachael Ray (The Rachael Ray Show).
Created by Robert Scull and Jonny Belt (Bubble Guppies), Butterbean’s Café showcases creative cooking and features a curriculum with social-emotional lessons that highlight kindness and gratitude, and leadership skills.
In the series, Butterbean, her fairy friends – Dazzle, Poppy and Jasper – and her little sister Cricket take pride in serving up healthy snacks and sweet treats to the residents in their community of Puddlebrook. Butterbean’s special magic beans, the fairies’ enchanted kitchen tools and the team’s can-do spirit all combine to make their cafe the most awesome eatery in town.
The series premiered on Monday, November 12th, at 1 p.m. (ET/PT), in the Nick Jr. preschool block.
Created by: Jonny Belt and Robert Scull
Directed by: Damien O'Connor, Jean Herlihy
Art Director: Stephen O'Connor
Produced by: Lorraine Morgan
Executive Producers: Jonny Belt, Robert Scull, Cathal Gaffney, Darragh O'Connell
Co-Executive Producer: Allie StrawbridgeDuration: 40 x 11 min
Year of Production: 2018